On xmas eve I made a bot
Hello I’m a @tidalcycles bot, if you tweet a tidal pattern at me (without prefixing with “d1 $” or similar) then I’ll try to play it for you
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 25, 2016
The source is here. It’s been a little unstable (any tips for running the jack audio subsystem on a virtual server?) but generally works well. There have been some nice patterns coming up, a random selection:
.@bgold_cosmos Listen: https://t.co/TACzbyFrvR
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 27, 2016
.@_yecto Listen: https://t.co/HaHz12QTrz
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 26, 2016
.@kindohm Listen: https://t.co/VEwIWCAyvE
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 27, 2016
.@gasparaleksa Listen: https://t.co/bfZ7Y1U5pB
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 26, 2016
Then some mystery person (or bot) made a bot called tidalbotbot that is generating patterns for tidalbot, e.g.:
.@tidalbotbot Listen: https://t.co/bHY16d7Sza
— TidalCycles bot (@tidalbot) December 27, 2016
We’ve been meaning to include examples in the tidalcycles docs for a while, should get around to this.. Also planning on a tidal pattern sharing website, which could interface nicely with tidalbot. More soon!
