Musical patterns as functions
summary
Live coding practice uses TidalCycles to treat musical timeline as a repeating spiral and patterns as functions, letting short text patterns generate layered loops, palindromes, density shifts and chopped samples; the system triggers SuperCollider via OSC so bespoke synths and sample banks play while simple functional transforms create complex behavior; the scene runs algoraves and an active community of nearly 1,000 worldwide contributors, with a performance tradition of improvising from scratch — the so‑called Mexican style nine‑minute starts.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 12:28Live Coding
- 18:22Supercollider
- 24:23Algorithmic Composition
- 26:24Johann Sebastian Bach
- 29:16Arnold Schoenberg
- 36:45Tidal Cycles
- 44:49Patterns in Music Repetition
