cueVJ
An experimental web-native live-visuals framework. Every visual is reactive by nature, drawn live to whatever it hears. Nothing is pre-rendered, and there is nothing to install.
Nothing here is a video file.
Most visuals you see at a show are finished before the show starts: loops rendered out of After Effects or Blender, or clips triggered in sequence. They look the same on the third play as the first, and they do not care what the room is doing.
Every cueVJ visual is reactive by nature. There is no clip to trigger. Shapes are drawn frame by frame from what the music is doing right now, so the same scene never plays twice and it is always in time, because it is listening rather than following a timeline.
Getting that with the usual tools means TouchDesigner, Notch, or hand-written shaders: a download, a license, a capable GPU, and weeks of learning before you make anything worth showing. cueVJ is a URL. Open it, let it hear the room, and you are already performing.
How it works
It listens
Your microphone feeds a normalized signal bus: energy, bass, mid, treble, and beat. Nothing is recorded and nothing leaves your browser.
You steer
Scrolling scrubs through the scenes. That one gesture is the instrument, and it is why this feels like performing rather than watching.
It draws
20 generative scenes rendered as pure SVG, live. No pre-rendered clips, no canvas, no WebGL, no shaders, and every line stays razor sharp at any resolution.
Why I built it
I have spent more than a decade building enterprise software. A deep love for music pulled me sideways into visuals, and I have worked on large-scale visual production since, including the Sphere in Las Vegas. TouchDesigner, Resolume, Notch, and a stack of 3D tooling came with it.
Those tools are extraordinary, and cueVJ is not trying to replace them. But every one of them asks the same thing first: weeks of learning before you make anything worth showing. That keeps live visuals in the hands of people who can afford the runway, and it means most people who love music never get to make anything that moves with it.
I wanted the opposite. A musician, a DJ, or anyone playing a track in their kitchen should be able to have real reactive visuals in about five seconds. Not a lighter TouchDesigner, but a different ecosystem entirely, built on the one thing everyone already has open. The browser is what makes it plug and play.
So cueVJ is a framework rather than an app. The playground is one way to drive it, not the only way.
cueVJ Studio
The playground performs the scenes I wrote. Studio lets you build your own. Compose your own scene packs, wire them to the signal bus, save a set, and perform it from the browser. Same idea, no install, except the visuals are yours.
It is in development now. Leave your email below and I will tell you the day it opens, or read more about Studio.
Get in touch
cueVJ is early and moving quickly. Leave your email and I will send occasional updates, nothing else.
Are you an artist or a label wanting custom visuals for a set, a release, or a show? I take on collaborations. Write to ronny@cuevj.com and tell me what you are making.