SyntoniaRituals is a tactile musical space for iPhone and iPad: play responsive singing bowls, shape their character, arrange evolving sequences, and let sound become movement and light.
It is made for slow listening and small gestures. Strike a bowl. Trace its rim. Leave a moment of silence. Build a ritual and allow it to unfold.
SyntoniaRituals Live Rig with four singing bowls on iPad
A playable Live Rig for layered, resonant gestures.
SyntoniaRituals is a focused companion to Syntonia. It grows from the same instrument-design and acoustic-synthesis work, then follows a distinct path centred on guided sequences and audiovisual composition. Syntonia is the broader instrument platform, with interval-based tunings, MIDI/MPE support, and an AUv3 extension. It remains under active development.
Syntonia Virtual Instrument
A playable Live Rig
The Free version begins with one singing bowl in the Live Rig; the permanent Pro unlock expands the surface to as many as four. Each bowl keeps its own frequency, colour, and acoustic character, ready for direct touch.
Strike a bowl for an immediate resonant response.
Rub around its rim to let the sound gather and bloom.
Move between bowls while a Ritual continues to play.
Adjust the performance visually without interrupting the listening space.
The sound is generated in real time. SyntoniaRituals does not rely on a collection of static bowl recordings: touch, motion, tuning, and the evolving resonances remain part of the instrument.
Shape a bowl of your own
The Library presents eight factory Singing Bowls, each based on a different material. The Free version can play Bronze Reverie and Quartz Stillness and can open factory bowls for temporary adjustment and auditioning. Pro makes the complete collection selectable and allows personal variations to be saved. The bowl editor brings tuning, interaction, colour, and acoustic character into one instrument definition.
Frequency presets remain independent from bowl designs. A familiar bowl can therefore take on a different pitch in the Live Rig or in an individual Ritual step without losing its identity.
With Pro, personal bowls, frequency references, and named Rituals are organised in the Library and stored on the device. The complete factory Frequency Catalogue remains available to browse in both versions.
Compose time, gesture, and silence
The Ritual sequencer turns a listening idea into an ordered performance. Each step can hold a duration and one of three actions:
Timed Strikes repeat a bowl at a chosen interval, or sound it once.
Continuous Rubbing sustains the gesture around the rim.
Silence gives resonance and attention room to settle.
Choose the bowl and frequency for every audible step, arrange the sequence directly, then play, pause, move through, or return to the Live Rig while the Ritual progresses. The Free version provides an editable five-step Default Ritual. Pro extends a program to 64 steps and adds named Rituals with their own colour and notes.
See the sound take form
SyntoniaRituals Live Visualizers
Open the fullscreen visualizer and follow the app’s own generated audio through ten distinct real-time interpretations.
Open the fullscreen visualizer and follow the app’s own generated audio through ten distinct real-time interpretations:
Harmonic Spectrum and Resonance Mandala are included in the Free version. The permanent Pro unlock makes all ten visualizers selectable.
Harmonic Spectrum
The spectrum is drawn as a field of luminous ribbons rather than as a laboratory meter. Frequencies are spaced logarithmically—closer to the way musical pitch is organised—so fundamentals, partials, and upper-frequency detail leave different traces while each bowl rings out.
Resonance Mandala
Concentric lines are built from polar geometry: a radius is repeated around a circle, then varied through symmetry, phase, and the distribution of spectral energy. The result recalls radial printmaking and geometric abstraction, with each strike travelling through layered rings instead of producing a sudden flash.
Harmonic Orbit
Two simple oscillations meet at right angles and draw a family of Lissajous curves. Small changes in whole-number ratios and phase turn the line through loops, knots, and gradually changing orbits, while the bowl’s spectrum influences width, persistence, and light.
Flowing Light
Thousands of points travel through a procedural vector field, as if a current were drawn in light. Lower spectral bands shape the broad drift, middle bands bend the paths, and upper partials add fine shimmer, so the image reads as streams and eddies rather than as a random cloud of particles.
Orbital Field
Here the particles answer to visible forces: attractors, repulsors, radial impulses, and orbital paths. A strike can widen the system for a moment; sustained tones keep smaller bodies circling and exchanging momentum, somewhere between a kinetic drawing and a simple model of gravity.
Infinite Bloom
A two-dimensional Julia-style fractal grows through repeated calculation: each point is passed through the same simple rule until filaments, branches, and flower-like structures appear. Audio changes the parameters gradually enough to preserve the recursive pattern while allowing it to travel and unfold.
Luminous Ink
Colour is carried through an advected field that resembles pigment suspended in liquid. New sound energy introduces dye and gentle vortices; older shapes stretch, mix, and fade through translucent layers, producing motion informed by fluid dynamics without pretending to be a laboratory simulation.
Fluid Dynamics
Broad vortices and visible streamlines carry luminous colour across a bounded field. A strike introduces a gentle impulse, while continuing tones keep the currents folding and transporting colour through one another. It is the more energetic liquid interpretation, closer to an illuminated flow experiment than to a decorative animation.
Digital Marbling
Layered pigment contours spread from circular disturbances and slowly fold into one another. The shifting boundaries recall suminagashi, marbled paper, and analogue liquid projection, with spectral changes reshaping the pattern continuously rather than cutting from one image to the next.
Lava Lamp
Large, soft-edged bodies rise, drift, meet, and separate in a simple field of simulated buoyancy. Lower frequencies broaden their silhouettes, while brighter partials gather around their halos. The restrained vertical movement gives the renderer its familiar liquid character without turning it into a literal physical simulation..
Global controls shape motion, audio response, glow, trails, and contrast across the collection. Renderer-specific controls appear only where they change something meaningful, such as particle scale, trace spread, or line weight. The selected renderer and its presentation settings are remembered between fullscreen sessions. When Reduce Motion is enabled on the device, SyntoniaRituals uses a simplified profile with fewer particles, shorter trails, and less visual reactivity while preserving each renderer’s composition.
Designed for listening and performance
SyntoniaRituals can accompany quiet listening, sound study, creative work, an installation, or an intimate performance. It remains a musical instrument: its focus is gesture, resonance, timing, tuning, and audiovisual composition.
No account is required.
No microphone recording is used.
Your bowl, frequency, and Ritual data stays on your device.
VoiceOver, Larger Text, and Reduce Motion are considered throughout the experience.
Listen at a comfortable volume, especially during long sessions.
SyntoniaRituals Library
A curated collection of sound timbres and reference frequencies.
Availability
SyntoniaRituals is being prepared for its first App Store release on iPhone and iPad. The Free version is a complete playable experience; an optional one-time Pro purchase expands the instrument, Library, Ritual sequencer, and visualizer selection. There is no subscription.
