Can You Live Code A Church Organ?

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Thanks Sam, Johnny, the museum and everyone watching!! 💻🎹🔌🛠️

[@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE]

Thank you sir! Let's sort an online organ jam asap.

[@TradieTrev]

Sam & Álvaro sweet first jam lads! Imagine what other cool midi instruments we could play there online.

[@CyanTiger]

Thanks for sharing ! I was a little bit apprehensive at first but now I am for sure going to give it a try! Kat

[@flibflob2785]

Look mom a computer

[@JeffGeerling]

Look mum 2 computer

[@evangilchrist981]

Came for this comment.

[@kimtae858]

So nice to see TidalCycles. The livecoding scene is weird but they're all passionate, super-smart people making software just as they want then sharing it for free to a global community of ravers and nerds.

[@theguildfordroadtrip4995]

Bravo Alvaro / Sam and the Tidal Cycles / Strudel (Str'oo'del) community - you know you want to !

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

thanks so much! And ty I felt unsure about how to pronounce Strudel in English haha!

[@oceanradiostation3146]

awesome! I never expected we can talk with the mashine in that way

[@Brian-L]

Oh wow, I came across this a few years back researching generative music. Completely forgot about it and super stoked to see it combined with the organ! Now Sam has a whole other rabbit hole to follow.

[@rosseastman2134]

I LOVE the live coding stuff. it's like music concret for the computer age.

[@padders1068]

That is Fudging AWESOME! Massive SHOUT OUT to Álvaro! You can tell when someone is good when Sam gets excited! 🙂😎🤓 Peace and ❤ guys

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Hey thanks so much!! Your kind words mean the world to me 🥹 sending hugs from LA!

[@GalileoAV]

Really interesting mashup of old and new. I love how it's built on unintended uses of all these devices, even the code system

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

thanks for watching!! Exactly it's so fun to communicate technologies in unexpected ways and see what happens 🐱

[@Reeceline]

I think a lot more people would go to church if they were dropping bangers like Alvaros. So interesting to hear an organ playing in a modern electronic music style.

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

thanks so much!! We need more church algo raves!!

[@geikha]

Super glad to see a friend show Sam what livecoding is about. I'm sure this video will help get more people into livecoding. I've been livecoding for some years, and watching Sam's content for longer. It's amazing to see this colab happen. Cheers!

[@digitaldobbie]

Love the story behind this organ and how you injected the 21st century into it bringing it back to life. What’s next? Maybe an old pinball machine maybe who knows.

[@kaisersozeh7845]

That's been an absolute revelation. Thanks for giving him a platform.

[@cyberpholk]

I've been fascinated by live coding for awhile, I should take another stab at it. This was an amazing video, I really enjoy collaborations like this!

[@lesliespeaker668]

With Alvaro's example at the beginning the organ created some pretty interesting sounds that are probably not possible with its original registers. The programmable algorithmic control and the speed at which the pipes could be triggered by software really broadens the range of expression of the organ a lot. I wonder if it's possible to control and trigger TidalCycles scripts with a MIDI controller, like a keyboard, or drum pads, or manipulate variables in the script in real-time with faders and knobs. You could create MIDI controllable virtual instruments/sounds using software and a real church organ!

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Love this! Yeah I've noticed repetition, polyphony, speed etc are aspects that drastically change when you're composing for an organ amplified with these systems. I'm inspired by Nancarrow, who was a pioneer of machine-controlled instruments (player piano) Also yes, you can trigger Tidal code based on MIDI input!

[@kassemir]

It's actually crazy to me, how much the organ sounds like a synthesizer, when you throw really fast midi arpeggios at it. Pretty wild.

[@j6614]

My dad sent me here. This is excellent!

[@repeat_defender]

That is MENTAL!! A whole different way to visualize music, fantastic!!!

[@Jingleboy14]

That's a really cool concept - thanks for sharing!

[@MrMaxeemum]

I'll be whistling this tune all night now.

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Thank you so much, glad you liked it!

[@djmips]

I think Sam has another passion / arrow in quiver! It looks very compatible with Sam's musical ideals.

[@fraser21]

loving that haskell-esque syntax

[@yaxu]

It is actually Haskell !

[@ColinChick]

Wow! That was awesome!

[@Veso266]

Hmm at first I thought he will use Csound or ORCA as a language to code in But I guess Tidal is also good choice

[@dykodesigns]

Really interesting. It’s sort of reminiscent of how game music was made in some cases in 80’s and 90’s. Kind of like a music macro language (Yuzo Koshiro appearantly coded his Sega tunes in such a language instead of using a sequencer). I remember playing around with Microsoft Qbasic using the play command to control the PC-speaker on my 486 but it was primitive compared to what could be done on a BBC micro in basic.

[@mikolasstrajt3874]

This goes one step further. MML is static music notation. But this is more similar to generating new MML (for example in Basic) while program is running.

[@MichaelEhling]

Oh, that's amazing. I wanna play, too!

[@Nicole-pt4bx]

the organ performance gives off so much steve reich, vv into it

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Thankss def inspired by Electric Counterpoint III! Reich is my fav composer ever :D

[@reiniervanbeijnum9379]

Please do this on an organ in a cathedral or something with reverb! Very nice!

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

coming up soon! ;)

[@kioshiki4519]

That's awesome, i really need to get to the museum and see it in person.

[@fooflyz]

Fascinating stuff. Live coding is nuts.

[@AJB2K3]

This has to be the first ever organ play music battle.

[@aliotard]

What's more epic than controlling a church organ with a laptop? Well, controlling it with 2 laptops at the same time of course! What Alvaro said about collaborative live coding from all over the world made me want a livestream where we can all input notes in the organ over the internet ;)

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

ohhh we could def do that!!

[@gubbin909]

Tidaaaal! Big love, been to a few algoraves in Sheffield (shout-out to yaxu)

[@yaxu]

Shouting back @gubbin909 !

[@gubbin909]

@@yaxu wheeeey

[@shawnchartrandva3gfy720]

Super video man . the way you guys got along .

[@bpa5721]

Congratulations. You made it to the Hacker News front page.

[@aaronparys1750]

Awesome Work ..Love seeing some Super Collider Work ..... Amazing App !

[@furl_w]

Only took 10 minutes to get to the explanation for what I know as the etherpad user cursors :D Fun. -- Hans Zimmer let root = "d"

[@cod.liver.failure]

that was awesome!

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Is the program Strudel python as it seems to run with any install very interesting.

[@_sticks_]

We need a Organ collaboration with the midi controlled organ from Rob Scallons channel.

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

I'd be so down! Rob, if you see this raise your hand!! ;)

[@swedebug2889]

Pretty neat! :D

[@posthofleiten]

Whilst for some time _you_ had no idea what you were doing, now _they_ have no idea what you are doing :)

[@Clutch275]

wow

[@thegrate1521]

could you consider putting a midi of "Tenebre Rosso Sangue" by Keygen Church through the organ? that would be so epic

[@davidm3569]

Soon the A I computer masters will make us listen to their music while they conquer the world.....🤔 🤔...😂😂

[@stufq]

Wow that soo cool ❤

[@MarkEichin]

heh, most musicians don't have to worry about getting parse errors from their instrument :-)

[@alvarobyrne]

long live live coding!

[@FLH3official]

I tell you, one of this day people will connect a kind of keyboard on a sonic device and will control it directly. For instance you will press on a touch and the corresponding note will sound in real time! It will be the open door for direct performance with our simple fingers and it will be amazing. And then, as the press of each touch will be remembered by a """machine""" (a computing machine? who knows?) so you'll be able to play it at twice, or more! the speed you played it. We could name that a """sequence""" 😃 #IntoTheFuture

[@LFOVCF]

Is there no end to what can be done with this organ? I'm amazed at how responsive the notes are at high rates.

[@BrunoWiebelt]

that was cool

[@johnpatten4055]

First off, love the organ, love the live code concept! On the same note (pun intended), you should take a look at Sonic-Pi software. Although the software was written with the Raspberry Pi in mind, it is powerful live music coding software with a much simpler interface. The software demonstrated in your video has a very "Computerese" syntax, where the Sonic-Pi is intended for music students, and it is intuitive and straight forward to program, even for midi output. Say, when are you bringing the museum on tour to Chicago? :)

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Thanks so much for your kind words! I actually started with Sonic Pi, and switched to Tidal because it's slight less verbose. Anyway I'm always down for more musical coding syntax! Also, I'm based in LA and would love to do stuff like this in Chicago if you happen to know people over there!

[@theoldknowledge6778]

4:22 Wait, what?

[@GalileoAV]

Sounds like one heck of a rabbit hole

[@colinstu]

which guy in his dream? lol

[@PjotrStroganov]

@@colinstuyou can dream in Madrid

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

​@@PjotrStroganov and also you can dream in TidalCycles 🍃

[@curtishoffmann6956]

This comment added to increase video engagement. Are you engaged yet? Thanks, Sam!

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

Thanks so much! I'm applying for an artist visa to stay long term in the US, so increasing engagement def helps!! 🙏🏽

[@curtishoffmann6956]

@@alvaro.makes.music1 In that case, I wish you the best of luck! Let us know how things work out. And, I look forward to your next collaboration with Look Mum.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Don't do anything that could turn into a logic bomb and corrupt your computer.

[@levedad91]

[@alvarobyrne]

leve edad

[@gislemark79]

Cool, but the "music" sounded like shit.

[@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE]

thats nice isnt it :)

[@alvaro.makes.music1]

​@@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE right! I think we did alright