Kymatic: music
turned into geometry

Problem

Every track needs a visual. Most musicians don’t have one.

Music is released on YouTube, SoundCloud and short-video platforms, and each of them expects moving pictures. For an independent artist that usually means a static cover, a generic template or paying a motion designer. DJs face the same gap twice: long recorded sets need video, and gigs need visuals on a screen.

Insight

The picture should be the shape the music draws.

The idea came from my own DJ sets: after a gig there was a 90-minute recording and nothing that showed how the room felt, the kick, the breakdown, the drop.

It met a long interest in how sound becomes form. Sand on a vibrating Chladni plate settles into a figure, and a higher note draws a more complex one. That set the product direction: not decoration over the music, but geometry that grows out of it.

Research

Many tools cover part of the job. None covers all of it.

Listening

Four bands, and every scene listens differently.

Kymatic hears bass, mids, vocals and highs, plus the kick and the energy of a section. Each scene decides which band moves which part of the picture, so the same track never looks the same twice.

Scenes

A library of 74 scenes, each tested on a full set.

The visual language starts from two references, a Chladni plate and the Flower of Life, and extends to the world of live shows: lasers, LED walls, tunnels and the night sky. The result is 12 families.

A scene stays in the library only if it holds attention for 20 minutes, moves visibly with at least three bands, reads on a phone and in a 9:16 crop, and runs on a projector without harsh flicker. Scenes that failed were replaced, and family names were written for users rather than for the team.

One frame each from ten families. Autopilot switches scenes on drops or every 16, 32 or 64 seconds.

Interface

One button, then the picture.

The first screen has a headline, one button and a menu; the player, panel and tools appear once music plays. From there everything lives in four tabs: Scenes, Look, Sound and Export. On a desktop the player sits in the top-left corner, clear of the picture; on a phone the player and tabs sit at the bottom, a swipe changes the scene and a tap hides the panels.

Scenes · autopilot, families, library.

Playing · player and tabs below.

Export

Release-ready video, straight from a phone.

720p to 4K, 30 or 60 fps, H.264 or HEVC, 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, the whole track or a fragment. Audio streams from the file and video is written to disk in parts, so even a long set renders on a phone.

Live

From a phone screen to an LED wall.

Kymatic listens to a DJ controller, groovebox or mixer through a cable or microphone and sends the picture to a projector or LED screen in its native format. A silence gate stops it from amplifying noise, and built-in diagnostics check the setup before the show. Live input and screen output are part of Kymatic Pro.

Roadmap

From launch to a growing creative platform.