A new medium · live audiovisual instrument

A new instrument for live visuals

Play sound and picture as one signal path. Rewire the path between them live. Author your own operators with code and AI. Fork the whole thing. A project is a folder you own.

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A macOS app where a DAW-style Session View and a rewireable visual node graph are one project, so you play sound and picture together.

Rewire · how it works

Sound enters as a signal, flows through a graph of operators you can re-patch live, and comes out as picture. It is a rewireable node graph, not a fixed pipeline - change the wiring while it runs.

Under the hood

Session ViewA DAW-style timeline of tracks, clips, scenes, instruments, effects and a mixer - the musical half of the graph.
Visual node graphA rewireable graph of visual operators (real geometry, shaders and compositing) that you build and fork like code.
The mapping bridgeA bidirectional bridge: musical and control signals drive visual parameters, and visual state can drive audio back.
MCP-native controlEvery operation is exposed over MCP, so agents (and scripts) author, inspect and verify whole projects - not just nudge knobs.

01 / Play

Play

Sound and picture are one signal path you perform in real time. A DAW-style Session View and a live visual graph share a single project: the notes you play are the picture you throw.

02 / Rewire

Rewire

The path between sound and picture is a live, rewireable node graph, not a fixed pipeline. Assemble it from typed operators and re-patch the signal flow while it runs.

03 / Author

The reveal · MCP-native

Author

When a look doesn't exist yet, you write it - project-local WGSL shaders and compiled C++ operators, edited live. And every operation is exposed over MCP, so an AI agent authors, inspects and verifies whole projects alongside you.

04 / Fork

Fork

A project is a folder you own end to end - the session, the graph, the mappings, and your custom operators, saved together. Take it, change it, run it anywhere. No lock-in, no cloud round-trip.

Who it's for

01 · Perform

VJs & live visualists

Drive picture from your set in real time and rewire the look between songs - never wrestle a fixed pipeline mid-show.

02 · Compose

Musicians & producers

Your Session View and the visuals are one project. Write the music and the picture it throws off together, and save both as one file.

03 · Build

Creative technologists & studios

Author operators in shaders and C++ with AI over MCP; fork a project folder straight into an installation or a client job.

04 · Explore

Generative & new-media artists

Treat the graph as a sketchbook - patch, break, and reshape a living system that reacts to sound instead of a canned loop.

Made with Vivid

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From the makers · Session View + visual graph + mappings

Your first project

The beginner project: a Surge XT track and a project-local shader whose rings pulse from four audio-to-visual mappings - the notes drive the picture, saved as a portable project.

by See Through Lab View the builder →

From the makers · Session View scenes + reactive geometry

Pulse

A techno scene driving a per-note geometry graph - hexagons for the bassline, wireframe octahedra for the lead, particle bursts on every drum hit.

by See Through Lab View the builder →

From the makers · The bidirectional bridge

Mirror

The bridge runs both ways: the music drives the picture, and the picture's feedback and blur drive a filter on the sound back.

by See Through Lab View the builder →

Play it yourself.

Download the signed macOS build and make your first audio-reactive project in a few minutes - or read the story behind the instrument.

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