Living art for the walls, rooms and stages that matter
Cryptic Arts Laboratory is an art studio, not an AI application. Our own painting engine turns real photographs, never generated images, into compositions that keep moving. We license them as Living Art, commission them for specific spaces, make audio plug-ins, and are bringing the same craft to VJ loops.
Some paintings you can hear
One engine, made for every screen in the building
From the lab
Filter Bloom
Graduated multi-step filter sequencer
Runs your audio through parallel filter bands, each with its own envelope drawn across a step sequencer locked to your DAW’s bar clock. Short rhythmic motifs or long evolving sweeps, always in time with the host.
- Up to 8 parallel filter bands
- 16–128 step sequencer, phase-locked to your DAW's transport
- Draw your own envelopes for cutoff, resonance, Q and detune
- AU / VST3 for macOS & Windows
VJ Loops
Loop packs for VJs, visual designers and lighting programmers, cut for live playback.
No AI, no prompts, no filters. Good old-fashioned code, written by people in our studio working together with the artist. Everything we make starts with a photograph taken by a real person and is painted by our own engine, somewhere between chaos and beauty. The engineering page is about that craft, and the artists page introduces the photographers.
Get in touch
A demo of Living Art on a wall like yours, a commission for a specific space, or a note when the VJ loops launch. Tell us what you’re after.