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Can anyone confirm whether this is the software used by the AlgoRave collective in the article that was posted the other day. I tried looking around their websites for the software they used, the closest I reached was that it used haskell. (AlgoRave article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808744)

This looks very similar however It doesn't mentioned haskell anywhere, despite the syntax looks like haskell/a similar functional language.

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Everyone uses different tools. Lots of people build their own. Overtone, the tool in this post, is a clojure frontend to SuperCollider (http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/). Overtone is used to describe synthesiser networks which are then executed by SuperCollider.

They use tidal (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tidal), and it is indeed written in Haskell.

As the person typing in that video, I can confirm that it is tidal. Actually I am not aware of anyone else getting as far as using tidal in performance yet, hopefully soon.

Meta ex have played at a couple of algoraves using overtone.

At the algorave in Sheffield there was

* Yaxu - tidal

* Curious machine - game of life cellular automata and a visualiser on the SNES

* Sick Lincoln - SuperCollider mostly pre composed

* Shelly and some Mandelbrots - SuperCollider as well, live coded

* Section 9 - ixi lang

* Luuma - loads of crazy stuff built in c++, I think running on FPGAs

Check http://algorave.com and http://toplap.org for info, videos and links

For a talk that actually uses Overtone, I'd suggest this one: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language

Nope, from the video, it doesn't look like they are using Overtone at all. Overtone is a Clojure frontend/library to the Supercollider synth.

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