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TidalCycles
Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest
Live coding environment for making algorithmic patterns
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Alex McLean
Admin
£750 GBP
David Ogborn
Admin
Iris Saladino
Admin
Scott Fradkin
£528 GBP
Joonas
£200 GBP
Hiroki Matsui
Regular
£163 GBP
Axel Ganz
Regular
£162 GBP
Martin Butz
£160 GBP
satoruki
Regular
£122 GBP
Jo Kroese
£122 GBP
Russell Davies
Regular
£102 GBP
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Credit from Ivan Abreu to TidalCycles •
+£100.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #787704
+£3.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #773344
+£3.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #773290
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Today’s balance£2,298.70 GBP
Total raised
£4,423.40 GBP
Total disbursed
£2,124.70 GBP
Estimated annual budget
£1,629.11 GBP
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About
TidalCycles (or Tidal for short) is a free/open source software project, and in particular a live coding environment for exploring pattern. It's used by a large community of people from around the world.
Tidal has been largely developed by volunteers and students, with some funding support for example from crowdfunders contributing to the founding developer Alex McLean's ko-fi page (now shutting down), and from the Google Summer of Code initiative.
As the Tidal community grows, this opencollective fund will accept donations towards development and documentation initiatives for the project, and potentially artist development opportunities. The overall aims will be:
* To develop free/open source software that reimagines computer programming as a live interface for musicians and other artists to creatively explore patterns.
* To make the software more accessible, including through documentation, translation and design, and encourage contributions from more people
* To foster a community of contributors and other users from diverse backgrounds.
Tidal has been largely developed by volunteers and students, with some funding support for example from crowdfunders contributing to the founding developer Alex McLean's ko-fi page (now shutting down), and from the Google Summer of Code initiative.
As the Tidal community grows, this opencollective fund will accept donations towards development and documentation initiatives for the project, and potentially artist development opportunities. The overall aims will be:
* To develop free/open source software that reimagines computer programming as a live interface for musicians and other artists to creatively explore patterns.
* To make the software more accessible, including through documentation, translation and design, and encourage contributions from more people
* To foster a community of contributors and other users from diverse backgrounds.