Design P_2_2_1_01 (Herman Schmidt et al., 2018) from the generative design book caught my eye and I decided that it would be a good base for the work I was planning to make with p5. I felt that abstract patterns like the one seen below were a great start to the project. I took the algorithm of how the patterns were drawn and then I customized the code to be able to respond to midi events instead of mouse position. 

There are 4 patterns on tidal. One is a pattern of higher sounds and the other is a bit lower sounding pattern where I experimented with distortion using the someCycles function. The other two patterns control the midi output.

Here is the demo of the visuals controlled by tidalCycles:

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