Jam with giant squid

Improvise complex electronic music on stage — the whole band shares one living neural network that listens and answers instantly

Push the tempo and it pushes back — a bandmate, not a click track

The same neurons drive sound and light — rooms that respond to the people in them

Low latency · Multiplayer · Now recruiting beta testers

Where will you take it?

Where will it take you?

Meet the band, right in your browser

Glia's neural field runs as on this page. Every squid is a live neuron - it strikes its instrument as it fires

Three squid playing a bass drum, tambourine and snare on a sunlit coral reef, seen through a porthole

A band of three neurons

Each squid is a neuron. Nothing sequences them - the groove is what their couplings settle into

Makes sound. Best with headphones.

One network. Every neuron alive.

Whatever you make with Glia, it runs on the same thing: a field of Hodgkin–Huxley neurons, each a living membrane potential firing in real time

Be first to play it

We’re recruiting a small group of performers, installation artists and instrument builders to beta test Glia in the real world — on stages, in galleries, in DAWs — we’ll happily keep anyone else posted for launch. Tell us a little about your setup and we’ll be in touch.