Thoughts on the course

[yaxu]

Hello @cycle0!

Welcome to a fresh influx of Tidal club members! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and if you have problems installing, there's a section for that.. We'll get you sorted!

There's two new lessons up today, in the form of a random function marathon:

Week 4 lesson 2 - random marathon: rand, irand, mininotation randomness, scramble, shuffle, choose + more

Continuing from our look at waveforms including random ones, here's the first of a two-parter looking at a wide range of random functions.. Starting with a bit of armchair philosophising about the nature of randomness in algorithmic music. I made these videos before the worksheet. I've decided that I should really do this the other way around, for a more organised video, so might reshoot it at some point. As ever, let me know what you think! I think I go through things a bit too fast, and at th…

Week 4, lesson 3 - random marathon part 2: randcat, stripe, degrade, sometimes, someCycles, randslice + more

Continuing on from part one of the random marathon.. [[TidalCycles] - more randomness - randcat, stripe, degrade, sometimes, someCycles, randslice + more] 0:08 - randcat - picking patterns from a list 3:51 - wrandcat - picking patterns from a list, with different probabilities/weightings 6:35 - stripe - patterns of random lengths, fitting together into a particular number of cycles 9:26 - degrade - randomly drop events 50% of the time 10:12 - degradeBy - randomly drop events …

I'm behind on doing live streams, so lets fit two in this weekend !

• 09:30 BST, Sat 9 May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yty49cdy3KQ&feature=youtu.be
• 21:00 BST, Sun 10 May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ0oVYYDtEc&feature=youtu.be

For the first one, I'll attempt tidalclub challenge #2. I'm not 100% sure about the second one - ideas welcome! We can do some q+a during both of them.

That's it for now !