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Bela-powered musical instruments for exciting interactions with sensors and sounds
Krzysztof Cybulski on Instrument Design
Interview with the Polish artist about his work and latest instruments
Instruments
Sound and Music
Oct 27, 2022
Kuplen: Hands-On Physical Modelling
Tactile, tiltable surface with bowed string synthesis
Instruments
Sound and Music
Oct 13, 2022
An effects pedal for free improvisation
Finnish musician Jukka Kääriäinen's Bela based guitar pedal
Instruments
Sound and Music
Sep 12, 2022
Tom Kessler's guitar machine
This idiosyncratic pedal packs in a drum machine, FM synth, and loads of effects
Instruments
Sound and Music
Apr 13, 2022
Sabbia: live electronics
An instrument for electroacoustic improvisation
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Sound and Music
Mar 10, 2022
Brassynth
A wind instrument for the 21st Century
Instruments
Feb 1, 2022
Crescente
Electroacoustic feedback instrument from Portuguese musician Henrik Ferrara
Instruments
Sound and Music
Dec 16, 2021
Microtonal Subtractive Synth: KSSL #9
Semi-finalist at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
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Sound and Music
Nov 30, 2021
Soundink by Selenay Kıray
A tool for painting and drawing with waveforms and timbres
Instruments
Nov 5, 2021
Design for microtonality
Neod is a new instrument with 53 pitches per octave
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Sound and Music
Oct 7, 2021
Teaching Spotlight
Music and Audio Programming at Queen Mary University of London
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Instruments
Sep 8, 2021
Prism Bell
An oversized musical instrument for large scale musical gestures
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Sound and Music
Aug 25, 2021
Pandora's Box
Improvising with an unstable feedback system between the physical and the digital
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Sound and Music
Aug 13, 2021
Trill Guitar
Building a MIDI instrument with the Pi Pico and our Trill touch sensors
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Instruments
Jul 9, 2021
The PRP Voyager
Performing with Pseudo Random Pulses
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Sound and Music
Jun 16, 2021
Rebus
An instrument for electromagnetic interaction
Art
Innovation
Instruments
Interaction
Jun 8, 2021
MORPH
An electro-acoustic instrument for gestural sound design
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Sound and Music
Wearables
May 27, 2021
Pulse//Wave
Connecting wood and flesh in a sound installation
Art
Instruments
Interaction
Apr 7, 2021
BenderBox
The Bela-powered device on Snarky Puppy's Grammy Award Winning Album
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Sound and Music
Mar 15, 2021
The Radiotone X-ray Synthesiser
Sonifying Radioactivity
Art
Instruments
Interaction
Mar 11, 2021
Digitally Active Drum
An augmented snare by Peter Williams
Art
Innovation
Instruments
Jan 22, 2021
Pepper
The Bela-powered DIY synth module
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Bela News
Nov 27, 2020
The Daïs
A Haptically Enabled Electronic Instrument
Innovation
Instruments
Interaction
Oct 30, 2020
A Synth from Neopixels, Feather M4, and Trill Ring
A clever synth built with Trill and Pure Data
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Instruments
Interaction
Oct 27, 2020
Multichannel interactive granulator
A synthesizer by Raphael Panis using Bela, Trill and CTAG
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Interaction
Sound and Music
Oct 14, 2020
The KeyWi
An accessible electronic wind instrument
Innovation
Instruments
Sep 10, 2020
The Boo Box
An instrument and effects box by Ishmael Zghoul
Art
Instruments
Sep 1, 2020
Hacking the Five-String Banjo
Re-imagining the banjo with Bela and Supercollider
Instruments
Jun 5, 2020
Knurl
Reimagining the cello with Bela and Supercollider
Instruments
Apr 23, 2020
On the Division of a String
A multichannel installation and performance
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Sound and Music
Dec 20, 2019
Augmented Duxianqin
Augmenting a traditional Chinese instrument with Bela and Trill Craft
Innovation
Instruments
Oct 17, 2019
Halldorophone
An Icelandic electro-acoustic feedback cello built with Bela
Instruments
Mar 14, 2019
The Ganesh
A probability-based Eurorack sequencer
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Sound and Music
Jan 9, 2019
Giraf
A self-contained polyphonic sampler
Instruments
Sep 14, 2018
The Smart Cajón
A wireless electroacoustic instrument
Innovation
Instruments
May 22, 2018
SALT
The Bela-powered programmable synth module
Instruments
May 2, 2018
Opal Rhythm Computor by DMX Krew
A drum machine and sampler
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Sound and Music
Mar 27, 2018
Kalichord Strum
An instrument that offers nuanced rhythmic strumming
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Interaction
May 15, 2017
Making the one-handed bass
Accessible instrument design with Bela
Innovation
Instruments
Feb 1, 2017
Making a percussion instrument with Bela
How low-latency makes beautiful percussion possible
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Instruments
Jan 11, 2017
The D-Box
A hackable musical instrument made with Bela
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Instruments
Nov 28, 2016
