---
url: https://fgelbal.com/hyperactive-amateur/
title: Hyperactive Amateur
author:
  name: Firat Gelbal
  url: https://fgelbal.com/about
date: '2026-05-15'
category: code
tags:
- AI adoption
- Music
- Creative Coding
excerpt: An in-browser beat-making toy. You record eight short clips from your webcam
  and mic, AI classifies the sounds and suggests a pattern, then the app plays the
  song back as a music video of you performing it.
---

[Hyperactive Amateur](https://hyperactive-amateur.fgelbal.com) is a small browser app for making a beat out of yourself. You record eight short clips from your webcam and mic, the app classifies each sound (kick, snare, hat, vocal, fx), and AI suggests a pattern across the clips. Hit space and it plays the song back as a video of you performing each sound on cue.

<video controls loop playsinline style="max-width:630px; width:100%; display:block; margin:1.5rem auto;">
  <source src="https://fgelbal.com/assets/images/2026-05-15-hyperactive-amateur/hyperactive-amateur.webm" type="video/webm">
  <source src="https://fgelbal.com/assets/images/2026-05-15-hyperactive-amateur/hyperactive-amateur.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Inspired by Lasse Gjertsen's [Hyperactive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A) and [Amateur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo), two early-YouTube videos where he plays drums and piano with himself by way of careful editing.

It started as a 3-hour vibe-coded sketch I showed at the recent Automattic AI Enablement meetup. The warm reception of the live demo there got me curious about how far I could push it. Play with it at [hyperactive-amateur.fgelbal.com](https://hyperactive-amateur.fgelbal.com). Source on [GitHub](https://github.com/gelbal/hyperactive-amateur).