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Jul 30, 2021Suspended Circles: interactive hanging mobile with knitted sensors
Suspended Circles is an interactive sonic installation which was designed and built by Tove Grimstad Bang during the autumn of 2020. This human-sized hanging mobile of concentric circles integrates custom...
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Jul 23, 2021Custom Designed Macro Keyboard with Trill
Custom keyboards can give a huge efficiency boost when working with complex programmes. In this post we look at a Macro keyboard created by Jakob Krantz which uses machine learning...
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Jul 16, 2021Audio Igloo: a shelter for homeless loudspeakers
Audio Igloo gives a home to hundreds of discarded loudspeakers to create a place of intimate listening and reflection on the ever-advancing march of consumption. This interactive installation was created...
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Jul 9, 2021Trill Guitar: a MIDI instrument with the Pi Pico
Ever wanted to created your own touch sensitive MIDI guitar? In this post we summarise at a four-part tutorial series which guides you through the necessary steps to build your...
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Jul 1, 2021Teaching Spotlight on Embedded Computing for Music with Bela
In this post we’ll give an overview of the Embedded Computing for Music course which takes place at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Embedded Computing for Music...
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Jun 24, 2021Pamela Z Award for Innovation in Musical Instrument Design
This year we’ve had the great pleasure of sponsoring the Pamela Z award for innovation at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference which took place in Shanghai and...
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Jun 16, 2021Performing with Pseudo Random Pulses: the PRP Voyager
In this post we present the PRP Voyager, an electronic musical instrument developed by Fedde ten Berge & Ward Slager which allows performers to investigate the rhythmical relationship between pulse...
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Jun 8, 2021Rebus: an instrument for electromagnetic interaction
Rebus is an in-air instrument created by Eleonora Oreggia (xname) and Clive Parini which uses a sensitive electromagnetic emitter and receiver to capture detailed movements of the hands. Electromagnetic interaction...
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May 27, 2021MORPH is an electro-acoustic instrument for gestural sound design
MORPH is a gestural electro-acoustic instrument that connects the body to objects in order to produce and manipulate sounds. This instrument was created by Kuntay Seferoğlu, a sound artist based...
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May 18, 2021Noise does not judge: dissonance by Antton Nuotio
Dissonance is a series of interactive sound installations by Antton Nuotio which reflect on the nature of noise and dissonant sounds. Leather jackets are hung, speared with metal rods, studs...
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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.