iPHONE APP · GENERATIVE MUSIC
SynthSense
Hear what you see.
SynthSense turns your camera's view into continuously evolving generative music. The colors, light, texture, and motion in a scene play a living ambient score — digital synesthesia, running entirely on your device in real time.
iPhone · App Store coming soon.
🔒 Runs entirely on-device — no account, no network, no cloud.
How It Works
Point the Camera
Aim it at anything — a sunset, a houseplant, city traffic, a paint set, your hand moving through light. Every scene has its own song.
The Scene Plays
Color, light, texture, motion, and depth are read in real time and mapped to a living generative score — constrained to musical scales and a steady clock, so it always sounds intentional.
Let It Evolve
It's one continuous, morphing piece that breathes as the scene changes. Tap to pause or resume; long-press for the live analysis panel, drums toggle, and lens switching.
See It In Action
Features
Color Picks the Key
Color sets the key, the scale, and the instrument — 20 color-driven styles that shift as you move the camera.
Light Sets the Mood
Brightness and warm/cool light shape the mood and register — airy scenes lift, dark scenes deepen.
Texture & Motion Play
Fine detail turns pads into plucks and arpeggios, while motion drives the rhythm — and locks tempo to a steady beat.
A Real Instrument
A multi-engine synth (morphing, FM, plucked-string) with sampled instruments, a generative sequencer, drums, and tempo-synced delay and reverb.
Depth Awareness
On supported cameras, depth and focus shape the sense of space and bring the subject forward as the lead voice.
Private by Design
Your camera feed is analyzed on the fly and immediately discarded — never recorded, stored, or sent anywhere.
Hear What You See
Point your camera at the world and it plays.
iPhone · App Store coming soon.
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