TAO.Audio
TAO Audio — an evolving medium for sound, space, and expression.
Expressive digital instruments, performances, and environments that connect sound, visuals, interaction, and space.
Custom instruments. Live performance across devices. Works experienced as music, visual systems, interactive installations, and spatial environments.
Built by a musician, TAO Audio explores new relationships between sound, visuals, interaction, and space.
A different approach
Most creative tools separate sound, visuals, interaction, and space into different systems.
TAO Audio treats them as parts of the same expressive environment.
TAO Audio has been used to build custom digital instruments, collaborative live performances, generative visual systems, and multichannel spatial works — all from one common foundation.
Digital instruments
Custom digital instruments that live across devices, controllers, and physical interfaces.
TAO supports custom hardware, expressive control surfaces, alternative tunings, configurable sound engines and audio effects, and networked performance — without requiring traditional DAW workflows.
- Digital keytars
- Percussion controllers
- Touch interfaces
- Alternative tuning systems
- Configurable sound engines & audio effects
- Browser instruments
- Custom embedded devices
Performances
TAO is built for live performance.
Multiple performers can participate from connected devices across a local network, creating shared musical experiences that are responsive, expressive, and immediate.
Performances can combine sound, visuals, interaction, and spatial behaviors within the same system.
Performances can be live, recorded, replayed, or transformed while preserving the expressive relationships between sound, visuals, interaction, and space.
Environments & installations
TAO extends beyond instruments.
The same systems used for performance can power interactive environments, installations, visual works, spatial audio experiences, and experimental media projects.
Sound, visuals, interaction, and space become different expressions of the same underlying work.
Beyond audio recording
TAO Audio records performances as expressive events and system state — not just audio.
A recorded work can be replayed, reinterpreted, visualized, rendered to audio, or experienced through future renderers, while preserving the intent of the original performance.
Current status
TAO Audio is under active development. The current focus is on:
- Digital instruments
- Networked performance
- Alternative tuning systems
- Event-based recording and playback
- Audio and visual renderers
- Spatial and interactive environments
New instruments, performances, and environments are added regularly as the platform continues to evolve.
Explore
Interested in experimental instruments, alternative musical systems, interactive media, spatial audio, visual performance, or expressive environments?
Follow along as TAO Audio continues to grow — recent performances, recordings, and photos live in the Showcase.
For more information, contact: info[at]tao[dot]audio