Gripbeats
Design: King Wong, Swasti Sethi, Larry Koo
Project: Natalie Chan
GripBeats is where sound meets physical movement. Play any musical sound with your own movements, and GripBeats becomes like an instrument – dance, and the music will react to the way you move. Our aim is to allow non-musicians to make awesome sounding music, while offering professionals a new way to create and manipulate sound.
GripBeats is a collaboration between KOODESIGN and UK creator David Wexler. Both have backgrounds in music and DJ-ing, which brought the right insight to the project from the start. Meanwhile, designing for wearability means exploring a balance of functional vs aesthetic.
The bracelet is ergonomically designed to blend with a super soft wrist profile. The result is a sleek, urban ninja look – technical and wearable – that blends strikingly with street fashion. With GripBeats we are designing a new kind of sensory experience. It includes 32 individual touch-sensitive pressure sensors, a 9-axis motion sensor (acceleration, direction, position), and a robust App that unlocks the product’s full potential. There are a huge range of capabilities, from precisely calibrating your exact movements to letting you jam with friends wirelessly – meaning multiple people can jam at once. When it all comes together, it does something amazing – it gives anyone the ability to make beautiful music.
