Liquid Light Machine

A psychedelic visualizer for long listening. Put on a record, or a whole show, and let it paint along.

It borrows from the 1960s light shows and poster printers: oil-and-water projections swirling behind the band, overprinted inks bleeding off the registration, op-art ripples that won’t sit still. And from the late-night music visualizers that kept a whole generation staring at their screens.

Leave it alone and it wanders. Every so often it changes one thing, a new pattern or a new set of colors, and takes its time doing it: the bands bend from one shape into the next, the colors bleed in a stripe at a time. Turn on Sound and it follows the music. The kick makes it breathe, the middle of the mix winds the swirls, and the busier the band plays, the faster it flows.

How to play

Sit back. It plays itself. The bar slides away after a few seconds; bring it back by moving toward the bottom of the screen or tapping.

🎶 Sound listens through your mic, so it hears whatever is playing nearby: your speakers, a stereo, a room. You can also drop a song file anywhere on the picture.

🌀 shakes up one thing: a new pattern, new colors or a new shape. Flick through 18 patterns and 18 color sets with the arrows on the bar, or ↑ ↓ and ← → on a keyboard.

👁️ Sight has four dials for the feel (Calm to Wild, Clean to Melted, Sparse to Dense, Digital to Handmade). More controls hold swirls, your own lettering, pictures that the flow moves around, and fine tuning.

Drag across the picture to smear it with your finger.

Everything is drawn live in your browser. Your music, microphone and pictures never leave your device, and nothing is tracked.