Check out this great blog post by Messica Arson. It includes details on how to use Tidal Looper (thgrund) with TidalCycles. It also provides insights into Messica’s unique creative process of sampling and looping screams.
→ Harnessing Screams with Tidal Looper
The post includes a lot of Tidal code samples as well as details on how to install and work with Tidal Looper.
This year, I made a project involving TidalCycles and Mandalas for Summer of Haskell. As you may well know by now, TidalCycles is a software for making patterns with code. It is used to create patterns of many kinds, from music and visualisations to dance moves for robots. Tidal uses a paradigm called Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) under the hood. This is useful for acts involving continuous time, including composing music and animations.
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Coming from an artistic family, I grew up learning about music production and image manipulation. And as an internet child (I was born in this millennium), I grew up chronically attached to the computer. I’ve developed most of my musical knowledge as a Hip-Hop producer and as a musical omnivore. However, nowadays, I’ve grown away from Hip-Hop to dive into UK Garage and Chicago Footwork specifically.
The TidalCycles blog is intended to be by — for — about the Tidal community. Anyone engaged with TidalCycles is encouraged to submit a blog post. Topics can be about Tidal practices, music made with Tidal, live coding, event coverage, new developments & releases, community, etc. Topics can also be broader — anything that would be of interest to this community, and it doesn’t have to be limited to Tidal!
aking patterns and drum loops are my favorite things! I had a non-western percussion background,and using TidalCycles feels like wielding an algorithmic percussion instrument / sample chopper hybrid with a lot of space for surprises and ✨randomness✨, tickling my brain in all the right ways.
