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Apr 30, 2021Nicola Woodham brings together e-textiles and soft circuitry in her experimental music practice
Nicola Woodham is an artist and composer whose work uses soft circuitry and e-textile sensors as tools for the performance of experimental music. In this post we will look at...
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Apr 22, 2021Here + Now: holding onto the present moment
Here + Now is a tactile auditory experience inviting participants to be gentle and focus on the present moment, by directly squeezing the music they hear. This project was created...
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Apr 7, 2021Pulse//Wave connects wood and flesh in a sound installation
Pulse//Wave is a sound installation that explores the sonic nature of bodies and objects. It invites the audience to connect themselves to a wooden structure and establish an intimate dialogue...
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Mar 15, 2021BenderBox on Snarky Puppy's Grammy Award Winning Album
This is the story of how Bela ended up on stage with Snarky Puppy and on their Grammy Award winning album: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Over to the...
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Mar 11, 2021The Radiotone X-ray Synthesiser: Sonifying Radioactivity
Radiotone is an X-ray synthesiser which brings together Giorgio Sancristoforo’s fascination with radioactivity, scientific experimentation and the sonification of natural phenomena. In this post we introduce Radiotone and have an...
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Mar 3, 2021Introducing Trill Flex
Today we’re thrilled to announce the debut of Trill Flex, the sixth Trill sensor to join the Trill family of touch sensors! Trill Flex: A sensor that bends to your...
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Feb 26, 2021ICONS by panGenerator: the rituals of digital life
Created for the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw by new media art and design collective panGenerator, the exhibition ICONS is a deep exploration of the daily rituals that make up...
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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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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.