Musician Releases Album as a Live Coding Device on a Raspberry Pi Zero

The brainchild of musician Alex McLean (Yaxu), Spicule is a unique album released as a Raspberry Pi Zero device, enabling its tracks to be reworked using the open-source TidalCycles live coding environment.

TidalCycles gives you a way of making pattern with simple bits of code, so you basically make music with text, through living coding. It’s free software, and I’ll be working on it to make Spicule…

Spicule will not only be avalable as a digital download, but in the form of a Live Coding Device (LCD) — a strictly limited run of 100 via its crowdfunding campaign. The LCD is a hardware format based on the Pi Zero, with a custom case and pHAT DAC made by Pimoroni. It will play mastered Spicule tracks over high-quality line outputs, or you can plug into your computer and live code algorithmic patterns to remix special versions.

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