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GEB, Gesture Beats

Your motion creates the music.

Visit the app gesturebeats.app

In the app

  • GEB showing its home screen Home
  • GEB showing its studio screen Studio

Why it exists

There is no instrument on screen and nothing to learn. The camera watches your hands, the sound follows them, and you can make something in the first minute.

Move your hands and it makes a beat. There is no instrument to learn and no menu in the way. Studio is for recording. Live Play is for performing.

Idea → Built

How it got made.

  1. Idea

    Making music should feel like waving your hands

    Every phone music app turns into a grid of small squares you tap. That is fine if you already think like a producer. If you do not, the app is the thing in your way.

    So we started at the other end. Assume the person has no training and will not read a tutorial, then find out whether movement alone is enough.

  2. Built

    Two modes: one to record, one to perform

    Hand tracking is the obvious hard part. The real work was splitting the app in two. Studio is for building a track take by take. Live Play is for performing in front of people. The same engine runs both, tuned differently for each.

    Licensed songs cannot be remixed, so the app plays over them and dips the volume instead.