Showcase

Here are some of the releases, videos, performances that people have made with Tidal. You will also find a list of artists working with Tidal.

Video

YouTube Playlists

YouTube Channels

Documentaries

Tidal artists

A selection of artists using TidalCycles.

Alexandra Cardenas (Berlin, DE)
Anny (London, UK)
bgold (S St Paul, MN)
Blaerg (New York, US)
c0d3 p03try flor de fuego + rapo (La Plata, AR)
Calum Gunn (Berlin, DE)
CLiC - Colectivo de Live Coders (La Plata, AR)
CNDSD (Mexico City, MX)
Control problem (Sheffield, UK)
Cybernetic Orchestra lead by David Ogborn (Hamilton, CA)
Digital Selves (London UK)
DuoF fer + rapo (La Plata, AR)
Heavy Lifting (Sheffield, UK)
Khoparzi (Allahabad / Bombay, India)
Kindohm (Minneapolis, US)
Lil Data (Internet)
Lysuc (Northern Argentina, AR)
Mancvso (Chile)
Miri Kat (London, UK)
MrReason (Leipzig, DE)
munshkr + x/q (Buenos Aires, AR)
Nullish (Sheffield, UK)
Polinski (Manchester, UK)
Spednar (Pittsburgh, US)
u-mano u-dito (Trento, IT)
voodoochild (Valdivia, Chile)
Yaxu + also in CCAI, Canute and Slub etc (Sheffield, UK)
yecto (Montréal / Mexico)

In the press

Peter Kirn, Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music, CDM, May 2018
Darwin Grosse, Art+Music+Technology podcast, December 2017
Jack Chuter, ATTN:Magazine show #7, Resonance Extra, July 2017
Dean Honer, The Golden Age of the Future, Electronic Sound magazine, Issue 31, 2017
Mary Anne Hobbs, 3 minute epiphany: how to create an algorave, Radio 6 music, June 2017
DJ Semtex, Are Algorithms In Tune with Music?, Nation of billions, March 2017
Steph Kretowicz, Algorave: The live coding movement that makes next-level electronic music, Mixmag, Jan 2017
Alan Raw, BBC Introducing, BBC Radio Leeds, June 2016
Emma Sugarman, New Voices, Sound and Music, May 2016
Emily Bick, Pattern Recognition, The Wire, March 2016
Daniel Temkin, Estoteric codes, December 2015
Dr Sarah Bell, Live coding brings programming to life, British Science Association blog, September 2015
Live coding and algorave, a composer-curator guest post on the Sound and Music sampler blog, February 2015
Paul Squires, In conversation with… Kate Sicchio and Alex McLean, Imperica, March 2014
Robert Barry, I For One Welcome Our New Robot Vocal Cords: Radical Computer Music, The Quietus, February 2014
Tracks, Live Coding and Algorave feature, Arte TV (France and Germany), January 2014
Clemens Lambermont, Algorave interview, NOS.nl, November 2013
Joe Muggs, Algoraving: dancing to live coding, Red Bull Music Academy, October 2013
Jamillah Knowles, Outriders, BBC Radio 5 Live, September 2013
Tom Cheshire, Hacking meets clubbing with the ‘algorave’, Wired UK (print and online), August 2013
Stephen Fortune, What on earth is live coding?, Dazed and Confused magazine, May 2013
Vincent Welleman, SLUB-trio: Muziek moet het visuele volgen, niet omgekeerd, Kwadratuur, May 2010
Tom Armitage, Slub: Making music with live computer code, September 2009
Jason Palmer, Tech Know: Programming, meet music, BBC News website, August 2009
Alessandro Ludovico, Live coding: I think in Text, Neural Magazine, June 2007

Tidal blog interviews

Malitzin Cortes a.k.a. CNDSD
Mike Hodnick a.k.a. Kindohm

Academic Publications

All of these are open access publications.

N. Del Angel, Luis, Teixido, Marianne, Ocelotl, Emilio, Cotrina, Ivanka, & Ogborn, David. (2019). Bellacode: localized textual interfaces for live coding music. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Coding, Madrid, Spain.
McLean, Alex, & Harlizius-Klück, Ellen. (2018). Fabricating Algorithmic Art. In Parsing Digital (pp. 10–21). London, UK: Austrian Cultural Forum. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2155745
McLean, Alex, Fanfani, Giovanni, & Harlizius-Klück, Ellen. (2018). Cyclic Patterns of Movement Across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding. Dancecult. Journal of Electronic Music Dance Culture, 10(1), 5–30. http://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.01
McLean, Alex, & Dean, Roger. (2018). Algorithmic Trajectories. In Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228959
Magnusson, Thor, & McLean, Alex. (2018). Performing with Patterns of Time. In Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193251
Ogborn, David, Beverley, Jamie, N. Del Angel, Luis, Tsabary, Eldad, Betancur, Esteban, & McLean, Alex. (2017). Estuary: Browser-based Collaborative Projectional Live Coding of Musical Patterns. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Coding, Morelia, Mexico.
Ogborn, David, Tsabary, Eldad, Jarvis, Ian, Cárdenas, Alexandra, & McLean, Alex. (2015). extramuros: making music in a browser-based, language-neutral collaborative live coding environment. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Live Coding, Leeds, UK. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19349
McLean, Alex. (2014). Making Programming Languages to Dance to: Live Coding with Tidal In proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling & Design. FARM ‘14.
Hacking Perl in Nightclubs