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Feb 4, 2021UVTOWER: exploring post-rave cultures with spinning lasers and mirrors
In this post the creators of UVTOWER, Andrea Guidi and Giacomo Lepri, talk us through their generative installation and interactive performance instrument which produces dense post-rave music as it spins....
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Jan 22, 2021Digitally Active Drum by Peter Williams
The Digitally Active Drum (DAD) is an augmented acoustic snare drum which provides new sonic capabilities to drummers, extending the drum’s acoustic sound pallet. Hardware This instrument aims to give...
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Jan 12, 2021The 2020 Bela Project Roundup
Happy new year from the Bela team. Bring on 2021! In this post we’re going to keep our heads up and focus on all the positives of 2020 by taking...
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Dec 11, 2020New Pure Data + Bela Course Online
We have just launched an extensive course on using Pure Data with Bela. This is part of the new tutorials section on our knowledge base at learn.bela.io. Pure Data and...
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Nov 27, 2020Pepper: our DIY Eurorack Module
Pepper is our DIY Eurorack module for synth builders. It’s the easiest way to get Bela into your synthesiser case and once assembled with give you a fully programmable module....
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Nov 24, 2020Projects from the Music, Communication & Technology Master's in Norway
The Music, Communication & Technology joint Master’s programme takes place between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Oslo. In this post we will take a...
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Nov 18, 2020Ambulation - Extended Soundwalking with Bela
In this post the artist Tim Shaw introduces us to his series of soundwalks, Ambulation, and shows us how he integrates Bela into his practice as a way of manipulating...
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Oct 30, 2020The Daïs: A Haptically Enabled Electronic Instrument
The daïs is an open source new electronic instrument created by Pelle Christensen which integrates physical modelling and haptic feedback into a new instrument with an identity all of its...
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Oct 27, 2020Neopixels, Feather M4, and Trill Ring Synthesiser
Thibault Jaccard has created a nifty synth using Trill Ring, Neopixels a Feather M4 Express as part of the Music, Communication & Technology joint Master’s programme which takes place between...
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Oct 14, 2020Multichannel interactive granulator by Raphael Panis
French composer and music technologist Raphael Panis has created a multichannel synthesiser which serves as a test bed for electronic music. It can act as an eight channel granular synthesiser...
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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.