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Bela-powered musical instruments for exciting interactions with sensors and sounds
Stacco interview with Nicola Privato and Giacomo Lepri
It's almost like training your body to 'feel' the algorithm.
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Sound and Music
Gliss 1U and Firmware Update
Expressive Touch Modulation, Updated and Now in New Format
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Bela News
What Is It (not) Like to Be a Bat?
Exploring the boundaries of consciousness through sound
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Open-source effects pedal by Lehel Török
Bela gets transformed into a powerful and programmable pedal designed for guitarists
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[in.tangible]
Exploring indeterminism in sound art with a tangible and interactive installation
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Migrant Sound Stamps
Argentinian overseas migration brought to life in this interactive sound sculpture
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Ephemerides
June Kuhn experiments with touch sensing and microtonality
Art
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Fósil acústico
Colombian sound installation expands the inner ear to architectonic scales
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Principium 3.1
Magnetic Matrix Sequencer and Sampling Keyboard
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Belle Box
Alex Tkalenko has created a mobile laboratory for experimenting with new instrument designs
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Variety Box Effects Pedal
Martin Robinson's explorations with Bela, Pure Data and FAUST
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Krzysztof Cybulski on Instrument Design
Interview with the Polish artist about his work and latest instruments
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Kuplen: Hands-On Physical Modelling
Tactile, tiltable surface with bowed string synthesis
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An effects pedal for free improvisation
Finnish musician Jukka Kääriäinen's Bela based guitar pedal
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Tom Kessler's guitar machine
This idiosyncratic pedal packs in a drum machine, FM synth, and loads of effects
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Sabbia: live electronics
An instrument for electroacoustic improvisation
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Brassynth
A wind instrument for the 21st Century
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Crescente
Electroacoustic feedback instrument from Portuguese musician Henrik Ferrara
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Microtonal Subtractive Synth: KSSL #9
Semi-finalist at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
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Soundink by Selenay Kıray
A tool for painting and drawing with waveforms and timbres
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Design for microtonality
Neod is a new instrument with 53 pitches per octave
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Teaching Spotlight
Music and Audio Programming at Queen Mary University of London
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Prism Bell
An oversized musical instrument for large scale musical gestures
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Pandora's Box
Improvising with an unstable feedback system between the physical and the digital
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Trill Guitar
Building a MIDI instrument with the Pi Pico and our Trill touch sensors
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The PRP Voyager
Performing with Pseudo Random Pulses
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Rebus
An instrument for electromagnetic interaction
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Innovation
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Interaction
MORPH
An electro-acoustic instrument for gestural sound design
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Wearables
Pulse//Wave
Connecting wood and flesh in a sound installation
Art
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Interaction
BenderBox
The Bela-powered device on Snarky Puppy's Grammy Award Winning Album
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The Radiotone X-ray Synthesiser
Sonifying Radioactivity
Art
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Interaction
Digitally Active Drum
An augmented snare by Peter Williams
Art
Innovation
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Pepper
The Bela-powered DIY synth module
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Bela News
The Daïs
A Haptically Enabled Electronic Instrument
Innovation
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Interaction
A Synth from Neopixels, Feather M4, and Trill Ring
A clever synth built with Trill and Pure Data
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Interaction
Multichannel interactive granulator
A synthesizer by Raphael Panis using Bela, Trill and CTAG
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Interaction
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The KeyWi
An accessible electronic wind instrument
Innovation
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The Boo Box
An instrument and effects box by Ishmael Zghoul
Art
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Hacking the Five-String Banjo
Re-imagining the banjo with Bela and Supercollider
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Knurl
Reimagining the cello with Bela and Supercollider
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On the Division of a String
A multichannel installation and performance
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Augmented Duxianqin
Augmenting a traditional Chinese instrument with Bela and Trill Craft
Innovation
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Halldorophone
An Icelandic electro-acoustic feedback cello built with Bela
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The Ganesh
A probability-based Eurorack sequencer
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Giraf
A self-contained polyphonic sampler
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The Smart Cajón
A wireless electroacoustic instrument
Innovation
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SALT
The Bela-powered programmable synth module
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Opal Rhythm Computor by DMX Krew
A drum machine and sampler
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Kalichord Strum
An instrument that offers nuanced rhythmic strumming
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Interaction
Making the one-handed bass
Accessible instrument design with Bela
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Making a percussion instrument with Bela
How low-latency makes beautiful percussion possible
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The D-Box
A hackable musical instrument made with Bela
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