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Mar 6, 2020The Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices by Yann Seznec
In this post Yann Seznec introduces the Book of Knowledge of Impractical Musical Devices. This series of three musical devices are each guided by very specific rules which encourage players...
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Feb 27, 2020Bela Features on BLAER's new album
Simon Iten, a long term Bela-user and lokki on the Bela forum has created a live effects box that made it onto BLAER’s latest album. Over to Simon to tell...
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Feb 10, 2020A Vocal Effects Unit For Kids By Kyle Reiff
In this post Kyle Reiff given us a detailed build guide of an inspiring voice changer and effects unit that he built for his 4 year-old niece. He takes from...
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Jan 23, 2020Absurd Instruments Hackathon – Unuseless Musical Designs
This post describes a hackathon which brought together artists, technologists and makers to work on absurd musical interfaces, questionable sonic interactions and unworkable musical designs. Making absurd musical interfaces The...
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Jan 8, 2020The 2019 Bela Project Roundup
It’s that time of the year to look back and take stock of everything that has happened. 2019 was a rollercoaster ride for us at Bela HQ, but this is...
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Dec 20, 2019On the Division of a String (2019) by Nicholas Brown
In this post we introduce On the Division of a String (2019) by Dublin-based artist and composer Nicholas Brown. The work is a six-channel installation-performance for monochord, Bela and loudspeakers....
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Nov 27, 2019Electromagnetism and the Production of Light
Alongside generating and controlling sound, the high resolution analog outputs of Bela are also perfectly suited for controlling light. In this post Manuel Vázquez describes his work S.R.T.A.E.E.P.E.L.S. which brings...
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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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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.