Beardyman

Beardytron 5000 · live composition software · 2015 · United Kingdom

Our role Design, real-time software, sound.

Beardyman is an improvising beatboxer who samples and warps his own voice into music, a whole album live. The Beardytron 5000 is the instrument he imagined to compose as fast as he thinks.

We design and program modules for this software, which lets him drive his entire musical creation live: our latest, for the Beardytron 5000 mkIII, is the Instant Drum Machine. Watchmaker’s work, where latency is counted in milliseconds and the interface has to be played without looking, mid-concert.