Estuary

description

Estuary is a platform for collaboration and learning through live coding. It enables you to experiment with sound, music, and visuals in a web browser. Estuary brings together a curated collection of live coding languages in a single environment, without the requirement to install software (other than a web browser), and with support for networked ensembles (whether in the same room or distributed around the world). Estuary is free and open source software, released under the terms of the GNU Public License (version 3).

Some of the live coding languages available within Estuary are: - TidalCycles: for making patterns of musical events (created/maintained by Alex McLean); - Punctual: for synthesizing audio and/or video from the same notation (created/maintained by David Ogborn); - CineCer0: for videos and typography (created/maintained by the Estuary development team); - TimeNot: for creating temporal canons (created/maintained by Alejandro Franco Briones); - Seis8s: for exploring Latin musical genres (created/maintained by Luis Navarro del Angel); - Hydra: for video synthesis (created/maintained by Olivia Jack).

Some additional features of Estuary are:

• Interfaces for collaboration and communication in networked ensembles;
• Built-in tutorials and reference materials;
• Text localization to an expanding set of natural languages;
• Visual customization via themes (described by CSS).

creation

2015

authors

• Estuary

link

estuary.mcmaster.ca

practice

Collaboration

temporality

Continuous

location

Hybrid

technical context

Website

social context

Community of practice

licence

GNU General Public License v3.0

notions

• Co-design
• Commoning
• Community
• Holistic