A new approachto stage visualsfor bands.

Independent software · Made by Cyrus Bahram

Synesthia listens to your band, follows where you are in the song, and fires your lights and video at the right moments.
No click track. No operator.

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Private alpha · macOS · Apple Silicon

Synesthia / On stage

Live workspace

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The band leads. The show follows. macOS / Alpha
Synesthia / The live workspace Designed before the show. Following you on stage.

How it works

Make the show.
Then make it live.

A recording, a little preparation, and a show that follows the way you actually play. Here’s what that looks like from your side of the stage.

  1. 01 / Start with the song

    Load a recording.

    Bring in a recording of a song you play live. Synesthia maps its sections so you can see the shape of the arrangement before you design the show.

    Review the verses, choruses, and changes. This is the song your show will follow, even when the live performance moves at its own pace.

    Your recording is the starting point.
    The performance still gets to breathe.

    Synesthia / Song sections

    Start with your song.

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    Your recording, laid out in sections. macOS / Alpha
    Your recording, laid out in sections.

  2. 02 / Give it a look

    Design the show.

    Decide what each section should feel like. Give a verse room, make the chorus open up, and choose a lighting look and optional video for each moment.

    Put the songs in setlist order, prepare the transitions, and run the entire show in rehearsal mode without a mic.

    The creative decisions are yours.
    Make them before the doors open.

    Synesthia / Looks & outputs

    Give the chorus its moment.

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    Lighting looks and optional video, section by section. macOS / Alpha
    Lighting looks and optional video, section by section.

    Synesthia / Section boundaries

    Right on the change.

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    Refine the point where one section becomes the next. macOS / Alpha
    Refine the point where one section becomes the next.

    A closer look

    Put the change where you mean it.

    Refine section boundaries before the show, so each new look belongs to the moment you intended.

  3. 03 / Take the stage

    Go live and play.

    Connect your lights and a mic, plus a projector if you’re using video. On stage, Synesthia listens to the band and follows where you are in the song.

    As you reach each section, the corresponding lights and video fire. You can push the tempo, settle back, or perform in a different key from the recording.

    No click track. No operator.
    The band leads. The show follows.

    Synesthia / Live workspace

    Stay in the song.

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    Your place in the song, and the show that goes with it. macOS / Alpha
    Your place in the song, and the show that goes with it.

Early access, by application

Let’s put it
in your set.

I’m looking for bands and solo artists with their own lights and a show they want to make their own. Tell me a little about yours.

Alpha · macOS on Apple Silicon

In active development. Builds are shared directly with selected musicians, outside the App Store.

What happens next

I read every application. Selected bands get a build, a setup call, and my direct line. In return, I’ll ask for a recording of a show so I can see how it went.

I’m bringing musicians in a few at a time as the alpha develops. There’s no fixed reply or invitation date yet.

Tell me about your setup.

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Do you own lights? Which adapter do you use? How many shows do you play in a typical month?

A personal application, read by Cyrus.

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The maker

Independent software / In active development

Cyrus Bahram

Musician first.

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The person behind Synesthia
Cyrus Bahram · Musician & audio engineer

I’m Cyrus, a musician and audio engineer, and I built Synesthia to make the show I wanted to play.

It began as my Master of Music thesis at Berklee College of Music, where I built the application end to end.

I’m still developing it myself, and when you come on board, I’m the person reading your application, helping with your setup, and listening to what happened at the gig.

More about my work

For the people who build shows.

Lighting designers, producers, engineers, and music-tech teams: if this connects with the work you do, I’d like to hear from you.

Talk with Cyrus