MusicLooks Betterwith You.

A music visualizer for the thoughtful listener. Forty curated scenes across eight styles — designed for focus, not distraction.

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LIQUIDWAVE · Live from the engine

Running live on this page · Not a recording

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Sound

Nothing here is a video — these seven scenes from the app are running live on this page. Step through them with the arrows, press Sample to hear them follow a real track beat for beat, or hand them your own music with Your file (or drop it onto the frame) — it plays and is analyzed right on your device, and never leaves your machine.

Hears everything your Mac plays.

LIQUIDWAVE hears whatever your Mac is playing — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Logic, a browser tab — using what's already built into macOS. Nothing to install, nothing to configure.

Zero setup. No extra software, no cables to reroute. macOS asks for permission once, and from that moment everything you play is visible.

· Spotify
· Apple Music
· YouTube
· Logic
· Ableton Live
· DJ apps
· Browsers
· Any app

Sees your vinyl. And the room around it.

The microphone is tuned for real rooms — it lifts away turntable rumble, ignores the hiss between tracks, and brings quiet pickups up, so even a gently playing record fills the screen.

A turntable spinning in the next room, a cassette deck on the kitchen counter, a friend playing acoustic across the room — LIQUIDWAVE reads them all, on-device, never sent anywhere. This is the only macOS visualizer that does.

· Turntables
· Cassette decks
· CD players
· Radio
· Live performance
· DJ sets
· Acoustic instruments

Reads the kick. Catches the cymbal. Locks to the tempo.

Most visualizers react to a single number — total loudness — and call it a day. LIQUIDWAVE listens across seven bands at once, sixty times a second: it feels each beat as it lands, follows the tempo, and hands all of it to the picture. Every preset is dialed in to specific sounds and timings, never just the volume.

Seven bands of hearing

01Sub-bass20 – 60 HzKick body, sub-rumble
02Bass60 – 200 HzBassline, low warmth
03Low-mid200 – 500 HzBody of the mix
04Mid500 Hz – 2 kHzVocals, lead instruments
05High-mid2 – 4 kHzPresence, attack transients
06High4 – 8 kHzCymbals, snare crack
07Air8 – 20 kHzShimmer, reverb tail

Beats

Every hit is caught the instant it lands — the picture moves with the drum, not after it.

Tempo

The tempo locks in within a few bars and rides through changes smoothly — no snapping, no drift.

Brightness

How bright the music feels right now — several scenes shift their color temperature with it.

Timing

Where you are inside the beat, at every instant — lighting cues land exactly on it.

Sixty times a second · Seven bands · From sound to light in under 50 ms · All on your Mac.

IVThe Set

Eight styles · 40 scenes

A preset for every kind of listening.

One for the focused morning. One for the dinner party. One for the late-night side of a record. Each preset maps to a specific moment in graphic, musical, or environmental history — never a random variation, never a generic gradient. Forty scenes, ready when their hour arrives.

No. 0105 scenes
Line
Waveforms. Contours. Vibration line art.
After Peter Saville and the CP 1919 pulsar plot, rings rippling outward, a contour map coming alive — music drawn as a line.
- 01·Wave
- 02·Pulsar
- 03·Waveline
- 04·Ripples
- 05·Topography
No. 0205 scenes
Graphic
Op Art. Halftone. Chladni. Solids.
After Bridget Riley and the Swiss poster — op-art, halftone dots, Chladni figures, lattices and solids: the geometry that frames a record in print.
- 01·Op Art
- 02·Halftone
- 03·Chladni
- 04·Lattice
- 05·Solids
No. 0305 scenes
Wire
Wireframe seas. Rolling relief.
A wireframe sea seen from just above the surface, the same relief from higher up, an island of peaks alone in the dark — line art given depth, rising with the bass and lying still in silence.
- 01·Horizon
- 02·Ocean
- 03·Waves
- 04·Dome
- 05·Peaks
No. 0405 scenes
Raster
Point clouds. Data as image.
After Ryoji Ikeda — a wired volume of data, a cloud that glides between shapes, a lattice that deforms, a cube, a line of particles. The low end moves the points; the mid-highs colour them.
- 01·Datum
- 02·Morph
- 03·Voxel
- 04·Cube
- 05·Particles
No. 0505 scenes
Lighting
Stage. Beams. Lasers.
The Bicep Isles tour, the Pink Floyd lights, Boiler Room — the room's own kinetics, invited inside.
- 01·Stage
- 02·Laser
- 03·Sheet
- 04·Rays
- 05·Haze
No. 0605 scenes
Chroma
Atmospheric color fields.
The color field — Rothko, Frankenthaler — slowed to the pace of the room.
- 01·Spectrogram
- 02·Curtain
- 03·Aurora
- 04·Color Field
- 05·Iris
No. 0705 scenes
Cyber
Neon retrofuture. Analog warmth.
Synthwave horizons, TRON cyberspace, phosphor decay on an old monitor. The future, remembered.
- 01·Synthwave
- 02·Cyber World
- 03·Cyber Grid
- 04·Streaks
- 05·Code Rain
No. 0805 scenes
Metal
Molten chrome. Foil. Iridescence.
Chrome that ripples like a liquid, a rainbow film on foil, satin light across a drape. The surface carries the rhythm; the light itself never flickers.
- 01·Liquid Metal
- 02·Foil
- 03·Silk
- 04·Prism
- 05·Hologram