Sign Up for Early Access See also: UI Tour & Performance Demos An App for All Digital Artists In this article we do a feature set deep dive and a look behind the scenes at the design process behind Optophonia. Our flagship app is a desktop-based motion graphics software application for Mac and PC powered by Unreal Engine, developed for the production of live, interactive music visuals for electronic music performances. Optophonia can also be used to render its output as linear media for music videos and vj loops at up to 4K resolution. The approach we take in this article is to give a ‘be ..read more

This collection of 16 free MIDI packs from our CTO Myk Eff includes files for bass, leads, chords, arpeggios, riffs and melodies as well as algorithmically generated drum patterns suitable for a wide variety of electronic music styles. All MIDI files include complete audio reference tracks for listening to the MIDI notes in context and includes almost 200 MIDI files  in total. The music can be previewed on his YouTube channel. Optophonia Ltd. is a London-based startup developing a real-time motion graphics application and a digital asset marketplace for performance visuals in music contex ..read more

Optophonia is pleased to offer a collection of digital wallpaper—much of which consists of diptychs and triptychs—perfect for multi-monitor computer setups. All works are HD in 16:9 aspect ratio. 4K, 8K, 16K & 32K UHD formats. The work is from our CTO Myk Eff, who is a prolific digital artist. These works have been exhibited in international art shows and magazines, most recently at the 2022 Winter Olympics Exhibition & Beijing International Biennale. He discusses his process  in this interview with the Al-Tiba9 contemporary art platform in Barcelona, Spain. You can preview the ar ..read more

Optophonia Ltd. is a London-based startup developing a real-time motion graphics application and a digital asset marketplace for performance visuals in music contexts. We are partnering with music labels and indie artists for producing affordable visuals for their music, such as music videos, VJ loops and audiovisual NFTs. We are currently reviewing portfolios of digital artists who can work on a contract and remote basis. We have a short application form below for submitting your portfolio(s), experience profile  and contact details. Submit your application​ Name * Preferred Name (if a ..read more

Our CTO Myk Eff is a prolific audiovisual artist who uses video synthesis and 3D motion graphics software to make abstract visuals for performances and exhibition. You can download over 80 high resolution video loops in 4K and HD below. The videos can be previewed on his YouTube channel, VJ Loop Zone. Optophonia Ltd. is a London-based startup developing a real-time motion graphics application and a digital asset marketplace for performance visuals in music contexts. Our flagship app, Optophonia, is based on Unreal Engine, which offers unparalleled real-time interactive and music-reactive contr ..read more

Optophonia is producing our first event, which will be an online film and video festival showcasing innovative works of music videos, performance visuals and experimental audiovisual media in May ‘23.  We see this as a great opportunity to develop our collaboration platform and promote all the art forms related to visual music. We are reaching out to many communities of digital artists seeking submissions, which is free. This event highlights our interest in being more than a software application and asset marketplace, expressing our vision of contributing positively to artist communities ..read more

A classic video effect that never seems to get boring to look at is keyframed mirror animation on moving images. Animated symmetries disprove the common notion that symmetry in visual composition is boring. It’s an effect available in the free version of Davinci Resolve — all you have to do is drag the effect onto a clip or an adjustment layer and start experimenting with the parameters while changing their values over time. The Mirror effect in DR comes with 6 mirrors that you can animate with keyframes (the red diamonds in the image below show active animated parameters). 6 Enable-able Mirro ..read more

This article touches on something that is very easy to do at home, and yet I’ve managed to procrastinate for maybe half a year before finally getting around to blogging about it! While my own music does not usually adhere to mix norms — since I come from an experimental and electroacoustic music background where more rules are usually broken than followed : ) — proverbially one is supposed to at least know the rules before allowing oneself to break them. This article outlines the ‘rules’ of spectral intensity structures in contemporary EDM mixing practices. I don’t think ‘spectral in ..read more

For a lot of years the average length of a song has been ~3’30” and that has started to shift in the Spotify era, where only a stream of the first thirty seconds earns you a fractional penny. But let’s say you’re not necessarily wanting to follow the current economic logic to its conclusion by producing 31-second songs but are more or less happy with a duration of a few minutes. And, let’s say that you have a single chord progression. You can make it to the finish line with just that one chord progression. By ‘finish line’ I actually do mean a finish line, since I usually place a so-labelled m ..read more

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels It may be impossible to overuse the reverse cymbal with reverb as a transitional sound in your mix. I just used it 24 times in a 3’30” song and I was being very conservative. 24 occurrences of the reversed cymbal with reverb was just enough (the DAW is FL Studio 20). For context, here’s a typical reversed cymbal with reverb — other variants include the cymbal with reverb reversed with reverb added and reversed again, and other sonological brain twisters. Sound and Design · Reverse Cymbal with Reverb I first realized that I needed this s ..read more