Beatline.xyz

Beatline — Where Light Follows Sound

Hi, I’m Paul van Dinther, and Beatline is my small creative venture dedicated to making light dance with music. I design and operate light art, new light fittings and light shows that are tightly synced to sound — not just flashing lights, but visuals that carry emotion just like music.

intro image with laser beams.

What I do

I build and use my own laser control software to create shows that are expressive, musical, and technically solid. Whether it’s a small club setup, an electronic music event, or a one-off creative project, my goal is to make lighting feel alive — like it belongs in the music, not beside it.

How I work

Every show is designed with timing and structure in mind. This can either be fully pre-programmed or inhouse designed light sequences that we fire live perfectly tuned to the mood in the room. It’s a mix of art and engineering, and that’s what keeps me hooked.

Coming eventually

I’m working on a small online shop that will offer:

How we work

Show lasers are coming back in fashion again because of their rich colors. But just having a couple of light beams move aimlessly won't do. At beatline we believe that light is just as expressive as music. Afterall both are waves. With music you hear different tones, with lasers you see different colors.

Not all notes go well together to form a chord and neither do all color combinations look appealing. Once we understood we can play light chords with our laser we wanted it to join with music.

Strangely enough, Show laser software is still stuck in the nineties. Painstaking placement of beam animations on a time-line divided in seconds and milliseconds. That won't do. Musical timing was solved centuries ago we decided to start use musical knowledge about measures, beats and rythm patterns and apply that to geometry animations and color animations so that then light plays perfectly in sync with the music.

Prices of laser diodes have plumeted in recent years and so have the prices for computer hardware. Beatline wants to be on the forefront of brand new show laser devices that go far beyond the old X,Y galvo mirros. We constantly push the boundaries and often apply these ideas in our Laser Shows to test them out.

Custom laser shows are much cheaper to produce with our tools, but also live shows are easier and better. Just like quantizing exists for MIDI music. It does not matter if you are looking for a cheap and quick club laser show or the next mega stage prodction. Beatline equipment will have you covered. Beatline may also be your perfect partner for your next product lauch, let's do something crazy and get noticed. Thanks to our custom soltware solutions we also have some awesome art installation options.

Talk to us and you'll find it easy and fun because we are motivated by the job. Cool results are our goal that is what drives us.

Shop

Coming soon. A wide range of mirrors, laser computers, utilities and show software is on the way.

The online shop will appear here.