THE BEATBEARING TANGIBLE RHYTHM SEQUENCER
Photography by Peter Bennett
STEEL PULSE
The BeatBearing is an exciting and intuitive way to make music. Move the balls on a grid, and you change the beat. Music sequencing couldn’t be simpler.
Like countless other musicians, I use a computer to create beats and sequence them into mixes. Pointing and clicking with a mouse is fine for a studio, but what about when you want to sequence rhythms in live performance? Or collaborate with others on a shared rhythm? These questions led me to develop the BeatBearing sequencer.
So what is the BeatBearing? Simply put, it’s a computer interface that ...
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