Beatback: A Real-time Interactive Percussion System for Rhythmic Practise and Exploration

drum machines and digital drum-kits offer users the ability to practice or perform with a supporting ensemble - such as a bass, guitar and piano - but rarely provide support in the form of an accompanying percussion part. Beatback is a system which develops upon this missing interaction through offering a MIDI enabled drum system which learns and plays in the user's style. In the contexts of rhythmic practise and exploration, Beatback looks at call-response and accompaniment models of interaction to enable new possibilities for rhythmic creativity.