TidalCycles

TidalCycles
Developer(s) Alex McLean and others
Initial release 2010
Stable release
0.8 / 3 June 2016 (2016-06-03)
Operating system Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
License GPLv3
Website http://tidalcycles.org/

TidalCycles (also known as "Tidal") is a live coding environment designed for musical improvisation. In particular, it is a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell, focused on the generation and manipulation of audible or visual patterns.[1] It was originally designed for heavily percussive, polyrhythmic grid-based music, but now uses a flexible, functional reactive representation for patterns, using rational time.[2] Tidal may therefore be applied to a wide range of musical styles, although its cyclic approach to time[3] means that it affords use in repetitive styles such as Algorave.

In its native configuration, Tidal triggers samples on disk via a C-language sampler called Dirt . However there also exist integrations for MIDI,[4] and for the SuperCollider sound environment.[5]

References

  1. ↑ McLean, Alex. "Tidal – Pattern Language for Live Coding of Music". Sound and Music Computing. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. ↑ McLean, Alex (2014). "Making Programming Languages to Dance to: Live Coding with Tidal". Proceedings of the 2Nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling & Design. FARM '14. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 63–70. doi:10.1145/2633638.2633647. ISBN 978-1-4503-3039-8.
  3. ↑ Aaron, Samuel; Orchard, Dominic; Blackwell, Alan F. (2014). "Temporal Semantics for a Live Coding Language". Proceedings of the 2Nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling & Design. FARM '14. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 37–47. doi:10.1145/2633638.2633648. ISBN 978-1-4503-3039-8.
  4. ↑ "tidalcycles/tidal-midi". GitHub. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
  5. ↑ "SuperCollider Users New (Use this!!!!) - Tidal and supercollider". new-supercollider-mailing-lists-forums-use-these.2681727.n2.nabble.com. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
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