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May 15, 2017
Kalichord Strum by Dan Moses
The Kalichord Strum is an instrument designed to offer nuanced rhythmic strumming to keyboardists. In this post, creator Dan Moses explains the design and thinking behind this innovative new instrument....
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Apr 18, 2017
LovePad: Bela and Soft Robotics at Goldsmiths' Sex Technology Hackathon
NSFW Warning: this post contains no explicit imagery, but does reference adult themes. This post describes the LovePad, a sensory play interface which was awarded the Best in Show prize...
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Apr 13, 2017
Upcoming: SuperBooth, Imperial CDT, Anvil Hack III
We are excited to be participating in three events next week; the Superbooth modular synthesizer trade show in Berlin (20-22 April), the Imperial College London CDT Festival of Science (21...
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Feb 27, 2017
Axis: A kinetic sculpture made with Bela
Axis is a kinetic sculpture that is made to illustrate the irrational number Phi. It is constructed out of paper, and its movement is created with 20 stepper motors controlled...
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Feb 20, 2017
Scottish Bela Workshops 2017
In February 2017 we organised workshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art and the Music Department at Glasgow University. The workshop kit we used to...
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Feb 1, 2017
Making the ‘one-handed bass’ with Bela
In this post Jacob Harrison introduces the one-handed bass, an instrument that mechanises the fretting hand of a bass guitarist using Bela and an array of solenoids. In summer 2016...
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Jan 18, 2017
Aural Fabric: an interactive sound map made with conductive textiles
In this post Alessia Milo introduces Aural Fabric, a captivating interactive sound installation consisting of a textile map which plays back field recordings when touched. Aural Fabric is an interactive...
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Jan 11, 2017
Making a percussion instrument with Bela
In this post we’ll discuss building percussion instruments with Bela. Bela is a great platform for making self-contained digital musical instruments and particularly well suited to percussion instruments due the...
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Jan 4, 2017
Using an external library within a Bela project
When writing a computer program, most of the time you do not have to write all the code that the program needs, but you will rely on parts of code...
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Dec 15, 2016
STEIM Bela Workshop 2016
In August 2016, we organised a three-day workshop in collaboration with STEIM, a renowned centre for experimental music in Amsterdam. The idea for the workshop came from a discussion at...
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About this blog
Bela is the platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. Bela was initially funded on Kickstarter in April 2016, and has been growing ever since.
This blog is for longer and more in-depth information about Bela projects and features. For support and to join our worldwide community, please visit the Bela forum where you can join the conversation!
Bela is a project of Augmented Instruments Ltd, and was built by members of the Augmented Instruments Lab within the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and see all of our code, tutorials and examples on Github.