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In March 2017, three students from Professor Chung-Yang Huang's web seminar in National Taiwan University (Vibert Thio, Joey Huang, and Yu-An Chan) were in the same group collaborating final project. As a new media artist, Vibert had already done few projects combining audio and visuals together by codes, while Joey produced hiphop and electronic music. Thus, they decided to work on an audio-visual web application, which could be performed on stage.
Inspired by the amazing patatap, which transforms keyboard as midi-controller, they decided to follow it but extend the features.
From White Vinyl Design, they gained great numbers of ideas of animation rendering, how sounds and music could be aesthetically linked up with visuals.
By integrating their web framework: React and one of their aim: Beat making, Joey came up with the name Beact.
The project began on March 2017, Vibert as the leader set up the environment along with the structure, prototyping Beact as a drum machine, which can be looped. Then Yu-An started to build the database and backend API, adding three advanced modes: Pattern, Chain, and Recorder.
The UI layout was designed by Vibert, and Joey was accountable for the frontend work. The team work was carried out with help of github.
They efficiently finished the first version in a week.
The first performance of Beact was on June 29, 2017 in the seminar.
On July 3, 2017, Beact was deployed and released officially on heroku.
Beact by Vibert, Joey, Scya, 2017