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Oct 17, 2019Augmented Duxianqin with Trill Craft
The duxianqin is a traditional plucked string instrument from China and in this post we’ll learn about an instrument building exchange which used Trill Craft to reimagine the duxianqin as...
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Oct 9, 2019Bela’s New IDE: GUIs, Libraries and More
The core of the Bela platform is our browser-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The Bela IDE not only makes it intuitive and easy to create interactive projects with Bela, but...
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Sep 27, 2019Euro-Trill: Touch Sensing for Modular Synthesisers
Trill Touch Sensors are the perfect tools for building synthesisers and electronic musical instruments. In this post we’ll have a close look at a synth module we’ve created with Trill...
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Sep 19, 2019Sonic Circuit Sculptures by Helen Leigh: Trill Craft
The educator, writer and artist Helen Leigh has created a series of sonic circuit sculptures which experiment with sound in combination with freeform, organic-looking electronics. In this post we look...
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Sep 16, 2019Trill: Touch Sensing for Makers on Kickstarter
The Trill touch sensors are now live on Kickstarter! This new family of sensors from Bela bring precise and easy-to-use touch interaction to your digital projects. Kickstarter 16th September 2019...
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Sep 2, 2019rmesh by Bruno Gola: Networks of Rope and Vibration
rmesh is a site-specific rope and sound installation that uses vibration sensing, speakers, feedback and a large rope lattice. A Web of Nodes and Agents This outdoor installation explores autonomy...
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Aug 20, 2019Towards Disabled Artist-led Music Technology by Charles Matthews
In this post Charles Matthews guides us through his work in accessibility, education and musical instrument design. He explains how Bela has become a tool-of-choice and shares his thoughts on...
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Aug 8, 2019Celestial Harmonies by Alberto Novello: Sound Tracing
Celestial Harmonies is an audiovisual installation which uses sound to modulate the blue beam of a cathodic ray monitor. Cathode Rays and Sound Tracing Alberto Novello created this installation using...
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Jul 4, 2019Magpick: an Augmented Guitar Pick for Nuanced Control
Magpick is an augmented pick for electric guitar created by Fabio Morreale, Andrew McPherson and Andrea Guidi at the Augmented Instruments Lab, Queen Mary University of London. Playing the Pickups...
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Jun 26, 2019The Chowndolo by Giacomo Lepri & Alessia Milo
The Chowndolo is an Interactive Sonic Sculpture based on a magnetic pendulum whose trajectories are altered by magnets placed underneath the device. This creates unstable patterns of oscillation which are...
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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.