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TidalCycles
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<p>TidalCycles (also known as Tidal) is a <a href="/facts/Live_coding/Vf9rTNDJ">live coding</a> environment which is designed for improvising and composing music. Technically, it is a <a href="/facts/Domain-specific_language/n18H1foD">domain-specific language</a> embedded in the <a href="/facts/Functional_programming/cdxqPEIM">functional</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> <a href="/facts/Haskell/ydEsHuGy">Haskell</a>, and is focused on the generating and manipulating audiovisual patterns. It was originally designed for heavily percussive and polyrhythmic grid-based music, but it now uses a flexible and functional reactive representation for patterns, by using rational time. Therefore, Tidal may 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 <a href="/facts/Algorave/YUdHjpqT">algorave</a>. </p>