TAO.Audio
TAO Audio — an evolving medium for sound, space, and expression.
A platform for creating expressive instruments, performances, and environments.
One performance, several forms
Most creative tools separate sound, visuals, interaction, and space. TAO keeps them together.
TAO is built for live performance across connected instruments and devices. A performance doesn't end as a stereo recording.
Minor Flicker Chirp, for example, is available as a four-channel audio rendering and as a WebXR visualization.
Digital instruments
Custom instruments can span physical controllers, alternative tuning systems, and programmable sound engines.
Explore TAO
See performances, instruments, recordings, and experiments created with TAO.
Explore the Showcase
TAO.Audio — Showcase
Performances and instruments.
Recent performances made with TAO, and the instruments they were played on.
Featured works
TAO.Audio — About
About TAO Audio.
A platform for creating expressive instruments, performances, and environments.
What is TAO Audio?
TAO Audio spans custom hardware instruments, the firmware that gives them expressive control, and the software that connects them into performances and environments.
At its core is a system for capturing the expressive intent of a performance — notes, gestures, tunings, relationships, and interactions rather than only the resulting audio. Captured works can be rendered again as sound, visual elements, interactions, and generative artistic forms.
Performances, once captured, continually find new forms.
Why does it exist?
Most digital works become fixed once they are recorded or exported. TAO Audio explores a different possibility: works that can continue to evolve, be reinterpreted, and be experienced through new instruments, renderers, environments, and forms of interaction over time.
Who is behind it?
TAO Audio is built by RJ Tripp — musician, digital instrument maker, and software engineer.
The platform grows out of a practice that treats instrument building, performance, and systems design as one continuous activity: instruments worth playing, performances worth keeping, and a system that lets those performances be re-imagined over time.
For more information, contact: info[at]tao[dot]audio
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