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. It was originally designed for heavily percussive, polyrhythmic grid-based music, but now uses a flexible, functional reactive representation for patterns, using rational time. Tidal may therefore be applied to a wide range of musical styles, although its cyclic approach to time 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, and for the SuperCollider sound environment.
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of gravitational forces exerted by the Moon, Sun, and rotation of the Earth.
The times and amplitude of tides at a locale are influenced by the alignment of the Sun and Moon, by the pattern of tides in the deep ocean, by the amphidromic systems of the oceans, and the shape of the coastline and near-shore bathymetry (see Timing). Some shorelines experience a semi-diurnal tide - two nearly equal high and low tides each day. Other locations experience a diurnal tide - only one high and low tide each day. A "mixed tide"; two uneven tides a day, or one high and one low, is also possible.
Tides vary on timescales ranging from hours to years due to a number of factors. To make accurate records, tide gauges at fixed stations measure the water level over time. Gauges ignore variations caused by waves with periods shorter than minutes. These data are compared to the reference (or datum) level usually called mean sea level.
Tidal (תִדְעָל), king of Goyim, is a monarch mentioned in Genesis 14:1.
The word goyim in Biblical Hebrew can be translated as "nations" or "peoples" or "ethnic groups" (in modern Hebrew it means "Gentiles") although Bible commentaries suggest that that in this verse it may instead be a reference to the region of Gutium. Tidal was one of the four kings that fought Abraham in the Battle of Siddim.
Theories about the name
The name Tidal is considered equivalent to Tudhaliya, the name both of a Proto-Hittite king and a Hittite king. The name continued as "Tudal" down to the Neo-Hittite period.
Dan Gorelick | Longest Night TidalCycles performance – Piano Phase
Performed on 12/21/21 as part of the TidalCycles "Longest Night" stream (https://night.tidalcycles.org/) on the winter solstice 2021. The main melodic motif is from Steve Reich's Piano Phase composition. I experimented with different phase offsets and Euclidian rhythms on the motif.
setup:
[ tidalcycles midi ] into [ prophet 6 ] into [ zoia pedal ] into [ blackhole audio capture ]
published: 22 Dec 2021
Making chillstep music with code | Tidal Cycles live coding performance
Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening (https://youtu.be/uTUo3QniSWs)
Despite sounding like it contains continuous tones, this routine actually (mostly) consists of drum samples played so fast that they sound like chords. Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening, which uses the same technique (panning delay).
Get the samples I used in this video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ouiPw6x_Mh5g7kBhatrPoviGxXhLBosz?usp=sharing
Graphics made in Unreal Engine 5. JJJreact. Lightly mixed in FL Studio.
0:00 Setup/Verse 1
1:31 Drop 1
2:10 Verse 2
2:31 Drop 2
published: 14 Jul 2023
Crazy arpeggios with Tidalcycles - live coding improvised jam
Hi there! Just playing and fooling around with some cool features in Tidalcycles, a wonderful musical live coding environment by Alex McLean (yaxu). This time, I wanted to explore how to create arpeggios and creating a bit of self-generative variations. It was fun to record this, I hope you enjoy it too! :)
published: 28 Dec 2019
Charli XCX – Vroom Vroom (Lil Data TidalCycles live coding edit)
Free download: https://soundcloud.com/lil-data/vroom-vroom
Code and samples: https://github.com/lil-data/vroomvroom
Time to say goodbye - until I finish my PhD.
LD 🖤
http://instagram.com/lildata.music
http://twitter.com/lildata
http://facebook.com/lildata.music
published: 22 Jun 2019
Workshop: Live Coding Music with Tidal Cycles with Felix van Deelen
This workshop goes through the basics and state-of-the-art of live coding music using a programming language designed for people with no prior experience in coding, Tidal Cycles (https://tidalcycles.org).
SLIDESHOW: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj4140xld07h3x7/2023Livecodingmusic.pdf?dl=1
TIDAL CODE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhc7m4nqcw1bst0/workshop.tidal?dl=1
During the workshop you will learn how to program sequences of sounds and how to compose songs in various genres. Then we will demonstrate some of the more experimental things that can be done relatively easily when live coding music, such as polyrhythms and non-linear time signatures. Then you’ll be able to try out live coding yourself by joining the RPM live coding room, where we will compose a piece of music together. Entering yo...
published: 20 Feb 2023
Babycastles Academy: Intro to Livecoding with TidalCycles
Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.
Join Dan Gorelick for a workshop on making music (live) with code. The workshop will focus on TidalCycles, which is a free and open-source tool that allows you to create musical patterns with code. The workshop will cover different methods for creating music live with TidalCycles.
If you would like to follow along, please have TidalCycles installed and running on your machine. Installation can be quite a process, so please refer to the links below for help getting up and running!
Experience needed to get TidalCycles running is the ability to run commands in the terminal, as well as some debugging skills (it is live “coding...
published: 12 Jul 2020
Introduction to Live Coding Music and Visuals
Long list of livecoding links..
Me:
- https://slab.org/
TidalCycles:
- Website with userbase, installation instructions etc: https://tidalcycles.org/
- "Tidal club" learn-at-home course, sign up here - https://forms.gle/ZTZSVswoXaKJCT5TA
EulerRoom live coding streams: https://www.youtube.com/eulerroom
Algorave - https://algorave.com/
TOPLAP live coding community:
- Blog: https://toplap.org/
- Forum: https://forum.toplap.org/
- Chat: https://chat.toplap.org/
Other live coding systems mentioned:
- Gibber: https://gibber.cc/
- Foxdot: https://foxdot.org/
- Hydra: https://hydra-editor.glitch.me/
- The loooong list: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
With thanks to Sheffield Creative Guild !
published: 08 Apr 2020
moistpeace Livecoding performance at "The Longest Night" with TidalCycles
moistpeace Livecoding performance
TIdal Club Presents..."The Longest Night"
2021/12/22 JST21:00- # CYCLE70
made with TidalCycles / openFrameworks / Ableton Live
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moistpeace Live Performance / Hyper Geek #6
https://youtu.be/p49EjaUjR-U
SUPER DOMMUNE 2023/02/03 「Hyper geek #4 SUPER DOMMUNE」
https://youtu.be/CgL6-eV5WjE
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https://twitter.com/moistpeace
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https://www.instagram.com/moistpeace/
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/4eh5qBZMEYDFcCEJlIfJNj
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https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/moistpeace/1572583416
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#openframeworks #abletonlive #livecoding #creativecoding #vj #beat #techno #hiphop
Performed on 12/21/21 as part of the TidalCycles "Longest Night" stream (https://night.tidalcycles.org/) on the winter solstice 2021. The main melodic motif is ...
Performed on 12/21/21 as part of the TidalCycles "Longest Night" stream (https://night.tidalcycles.org/) on the winter solstice 2021. The main melodic motif is from Steve Reich's Piano Phase composition. I experimented with different phase offsets and Euclidian rhythms on the motif.
setup:
[ tidalcycles midi ] into [ prophet 6 ] into [ zoia pedal ] into [ blackhole audio capture ]
Performed on 12/21/21 as part of the TidalCycles "Longest Night" stream (https://night.tidalcycles.org/) on the winter solstice 2021. The main melodic motif is from Steve Reich's Piano Phase composition. I experimented with different phase offsets and Euclidian rhythms on the motif.
setup:
[ tidalcycles midi ] into [ prophet 6 ] into [ zoia pedal ] into [ blackhole audio capture ]
Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening (https://youtu.be/uTUo3QniSWs)
Despite sounding like it contains continuous tones, this routine actually (mostly) consists...
Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening (https://youtu.be/uTUo3QniSWs)
Despite sounding like it contains continuous tones, this routine actually (mostly) consists of drum samples played so fast that they sound like chords. Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening, which uses the same technique (panning delay).
Get the samples I used in this video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ouiPw6x_Mh5g7kBhatrPoviGxXhLBosz?usp=sharing
Graphics made in Unreal Engine 5. JJJreact. Lightly mixed in FL Studio.
0:00 Setup/Verse 1
1:31 Drop 1
2:10 Verse 2
2:31 Drop 2
Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening (https://youtu.be/uTUo3QniSWs)
Despite sounding like it contains continuous tones, this routine actually (mostly) consists of drum samples played so fast that they sound like chords. Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening, which uses the same technique (panning delay).
Get the samples I used in this video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ouiPw6x_Mh5g7kBhatrPoviGxXhLBosz?usp=sharing
Graphics made in Unreal Engine 5. JJJreact. Lightly mixed in FL Studio.
0:00 Setup/Verse 1
1:31 Drop 1
2:10 Verse 2
2:31 Drop 2
Hi there! Just playing and fooling around with some cool features in Tidalcycles, a wonderful musical live coding environment by Alex McLean (yaxu). This time, ...
Hi there! Just playing and fooling around with some cool features in Tidalcycles, a wonderful musical live coding environment by Alex McLean (yaxu). This time, I wanted to explore how to create arpeggios and creating a bit of self-generative variations. It was fun to record this, I hope you enjoy it too! :)
Hi there! Just playing and fooling around with some cool features in Tidalcycles, a wonderful musical live coding environment by Alex McLean (yaxu). This time, I wanted to explore how to create arpeggios and creating a bit of self-generative variations. It was fun to record this, I hope you enjoy it too! :)
Free download: https://soundcloud.com/lil-data/vroom-vroom
Code and samples: https://github.com/lil-data/vroomvroom
Time to say goodbye - until I finish my PhD...
Free download: https://soundcloud.com/lil-data/vroom-vroom
Code and samples: https://github.com/lil-data/vroomvroom
Time to say goodbye - until I finish my PhD.
LD 🖤
http://instagram.com/lildata.music
http://twitter.com/lildata
http://facebook.com/lildata.music
Free download: https://soundcloud.com/lil-data/vroom-vroom
Code and samples: https://github.com/lil-data/vroomvroom
Time to say goodbye - until I finish my PhD.
LD 🖤
http://instagram.com/lildata.music
http://twitter.com/lildata
http://facebook.com/lildata.music
This workshop goes through the basics and state-of-the-art of live coding music using a programming language designed for people with no prior experience in cod...
This workshop goes through the basics and state-of-the-art of live coding music using a programming language designed for people with no prior experience in coding, Tidal Cycles (https://tidalcycles.org).
SLIDESHOW: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj4140xld07h3x7/2023Livecodingmusic.pdf?dl=1
TIDAL CODE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhc7m4nqcw1bst0/workshop.tidal?dl=1
During the workshop you will learn how to program sequences of sounds and how to compose songs in various genres. Then we will demonstrate some of the more experimental things that can be done relatively easily when live coding music, such as polyrhythms and non-linear time signatures. Then you’ll be able to try out live coding yourself by joining the RPM live coding room, where we will compose a piece of music together. Entering your own piece of code will change the course of the song and will give you a taste of what live coding can create.
Felix van Deelen is a musician as well as an AI-engineer, exploring the intersection of these two by writing code to create music. He is the person behind the Dutch bedroom rock-band The Wizards of Vomit (https://soundcloud.com/user-171358132) and the guitarist of the psychedelic non-bedroom rock band The Feet Long Mouse (https://soundcloud.com/user-829426124). Over the last year he has produced many songs using nothing but code under the alias lil bits, which have been a hit at the Record Every Month Challenge listening parties.
The RPM Challenge would be impossible without the generosity of our awesome donors, funders, and community partners. Thank you to our 2023 funders ArtsNL and the City of St. John's.
This workshop goes through the basics and state-of-the-art of live coding music using a programming language designed for people with no prior experience in coding, Tidal Cycles (https://tidalcycles.org).
SLIDESHOW: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj4140xld07h3x7/2023Livecodingmusic.pdf?dl=1
TIDAL CODE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhc7m4nqcw1bst0/workshop.tidal?dl=1
During the workshop you will learn how to program sequences of sounds and how to compose songs in various genres. Then we will demonstrate some of the more experimental things that can be done relatively easily when live coding music, such as polyrhythms and non-linear time signatures. Then you’ll be able to try out live coding yourself by joining the RPM live coding room, where we will compose a piece of music together. Entering your own piece of code will change the course of the song and will give you a taste of what live coding can create.
Felix van Deelen is a musician as well as an AI-engineer, exploring the intersection of these two by writing code to create music. He is the person behind the Dutch bedroom rock-band The Wizards of Vomit (https://soundcloud.com/user-171358132) and the guitarist of the psychedelic non-bedroom rock band The Feet Long Mouse (https://soundcloud.com/user-829426124). Over the last year he has produced many songs using nothing but code under the alias lil bits, which have been a hit at the Record Every Month Challenge listening parties.
The RPM Challenge would be impossible without the generosity of our awesome donors, funders, and community partners. Thank you to our 2023 funders ArtsNL and the City of St. John's.
Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends....
Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.
Join Dan Gorelick for a workshop on making music (live) with code. The workshop will focus on TidalCycles, which is a free and open-source tool that allows you to create musical patterns with code. The workshop will cover different methods for creating music live with TidalCycles.
If you would like to follow along, please have TidalCycles installed and running on your machine. Installation can be quite a process, so please refer to the links below for help getting up and running!
Experience needed to get TidalCycles running is the ability to run commands in the terminal, as well as some debugging skills (it is live “coding” after all).
Links:
TidalCycles: [https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome](https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome)
Dan Gorelick: [https://danielgorelick.com](https://danielgorelick.com)
Dan’s TidalCycles installation guide: [https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal](https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal)
TidalCycles course: [https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu](https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu)
Help keep Babycastles thriving during COVID-19! Participants are encouraged to send a $5 - $15 sliding scale donation. Venmo: @babycastles or make a one-time contribution or sign up for a membership at [https://withfriends.co/babycastles](https://withfriends.co/babycastles) -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/babycastles
Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.
Join Dan Gorelick for a workshop on making music (live) with code. The workshop will focus on TidalCycles, which is a free and open-source tool that allows you to create musical patterns with code. The workshop will cover different methods for creating music live with TidalCycles.
If you would like to follow along, please have TidalCycles installed and running on your machine. Installation can be quite a process, so please refer to the links below for help getting up and running!
Experience needed to get TidalCycles running is the ability to run commands in the terminal, as well as some debugging skills (it is live “coding” after all).
Links:
TidalCycles: [https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome](https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome)
Dan Gorelick: [https://danielgorelick.com](https://danielgorelick.com)
Dan’s TidalCycles installation guide: [https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal](https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal)
TidalCycles course: [https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu](https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu)
Help keep Babycastles thriving during COVID-19! Participants are encouraged to send a $5 - $15 sliding scale donation. Venmo: @babycastles or make a one-time contribution or sign up for a membership at [https://withfriends.co/babycastles](https://withfriends.co/babycastles) -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/babycastles
Long list of livecoding links..
Me:
- https://slab.org/
TidalCycles:
- Website with userbase, installation instructions etc: https://tidalcycles.org/
- "Tidal ...
Long list of livecoding links..
Me:
- https://slab.org/
TidalCycles:
- Website with userbase, installation instructions etc: https://tidalcycles.org/
- "Tidal club" learn-at-home course, sign up here - https://forms.gle/ZTZSVswoXaKJCT5TA
EulerRoom live coding streams: https://www.youtube.com/eulerroom
Algorave - https://algorave.com/
TOPLAP live coding community:
- Blog: https://toplap.org/
- Forum: https://forum.toplap.org/
- Chat: https://chat.toplap.org/
Other live coding systems mentioned:
- Gibber: https://gibber.cc/
- Foxdot: https://foxdot.org/
- Hydra: https://hydra-editor.glitch.me/
- The loooong list: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
With thanks to Sheffield Creative Guild !
Performed on 12/21/21 as part of the TidalCycles "Longest Night" stream (https://night.tidalcycles.org/) on the winter solstice 2021. The main melodic motif is from Steve Reich's Piano Phase composition. I experimented with different phase offsets and Euclidian rhythms on the motif.
setup:
[ tidalcycles midi ] into [ prophet 6 ] into [ zoia pedal ] into [ blackhole audio capture ]
Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening (https://youtu.be/uTUo3QniSWs)
Despite sounding like it contains continuous tones, this routine actually (mostly) consists of drum samples played so fast that they sound like chords. Heavily inspired by Sxin - Awakening, which uses the same technique (panning delay).
Get the samples I used in this video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ouiPw6x_Mh5g7kBhatrPoviGxXhLBosz?usp=sharing
Graphics made in Unreal Engine 5. JJJreact. Lightly mixed in FL Studio.
0:00 Setup/Verse 1
1:31 Drop 1
2:10 Verse 2
2:31 Drop 2
Hi there! Just playing and fooling around with some cool features in Tidalcycles, a wonderful musical live coding environment by Alex McLean (yaxu). This time, I wanted to explore how to create arpeggios and creating a bit of self-generative variations. It was fun to record this, I hope you enjoy it too! :)
Free download: https://soundcloud.com/lil-data/vroom-vroom
Code and samples: https://github.com/lil-data/vroomvroom
Time to say goodbye - until I finish my PhD.
LD 🖤
http://instagram.com/lildata.music
http://twitter.com/lildata
http://facebook.com/lildata.music
This workshop goes through the basics and state-of-the-art of live coding music using a programming language designed for people with no prior experience in coding, Tidal Cycles (https://tidalcycles.org).
SLIDESHOW: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj4140xld07h3x7/2023Livecodingmusic.pdf?dl=1
TIDAL CODE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mhc7m4nqcw1bst0/workshop.tidal?dl=1
During the workshop you will learn how to program sequences of sounds and how to compose songs in various genres. Then we will demonstrate some of the more experimental things that can be done relatively easily when live coding music, such as polyrhythms and non-linear time signatures. Then you’ll be able to try out live coding yourself by joining the RPM live coding room, where we will compose a piece of music together. Entering your own piece of code will change the course of the song and will give you a taste of what live coding can create.
Felix van Deelen is a musician as well as an AI-engineer, exploring the intersection of these two by writing code to create music. He is the person behind the Dutch bedroom rock-band The Wizards of Vomit (https://soundcloud.com/user-171358132) and the guitarist of the psychedelic non-bedroom rock band The Feet Long Mouse (https://soundcloud.com/user-829426124). Over the last year he has produced many songs using nothing but code under the alias lil bits, which have been a hit at the Record Every Month Challenge listening parties.
The RPM Challenge would be impossible without the generosity of our awesome donors, funders, and community partners. Thank you to our 2023 funders ArtsNL and the City of St. John's.
Babycastles Academy is the education arm of Babycastles. Join us on Sunday afternoons at 3pm for workshops and jam sessions. Learn new skills. Make new friends.
Join Dan Gorelick for a workshop on making music (live) with code. The workshop will focus on TidalCycles, which is a free and open-source tool that allows you to create musical patterns with code. The workshop will cover different methods for creating music live with TidalCycles.
If you would like to follow along, please have TidalCycles installed and running on your machine. Installation can be quite a process, so please refer to the links below for help getting up and running!
Experience needed to get TidalCycles running is the ability to run commands in the terminal, as well as some debugging skills (it is live “coding” after all).
Links:
TidalCycles: [https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome](https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome)
Dan Gorelick: [https://danielgorelick.com](https://danielgorelick.com)
Dan’s TidalCycles installation guide: [https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal](https://bit.ly/babycastles-tidal)
TidalCycles course: [https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu](https://blog.tidalcycles.org/author/yaxu)
Help keep Babycastles thriving during COVID-19! Participants are encouraged to send a $5 - $15 sliding scale donation. Venmo: @babycastles or make a one-time contribution or sign up for a membership at [https://withfriends.co/babycastles](https://withfriends.co/babycastles) -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/babycastles
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. It was originally designed for heavily percussive, polyrhythmic grid-based music, but now uses a flexible, functional reactive representation for patterns, using rational time. Tidal may therefore be applied to a wide range of musical styles, although its cyclic approach to time 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, and for the SuperCollider sound environment.