Funputs is a suite of MIDI instruments. Most music software is built around knobs, sliders, menus, numbers and text. With Funputs, I've been exploring how much of that can be replaced with space, colour, movement and shape.
Comet is an expressive XY pad. Orbit tunes you to any scale. Cluster generates chords. Use your mouse, or pair a phone or tablet for wireless multi-touch control.
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At ROLI, I worked across piano learning, interactive notation, audio, hardware integration and conversational AI, including AI Music Coach and Airwave. I integrated computer vision into ROLI’s platforms to provide real-time guidance on finger positions for piano learners and let musicians shape sound expressively through gesture.
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An open-source, browser-based music-making environment. Join blocks to build synths, process your voice, remix samples and create self-playing systems.
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A tactile way to play and learn musical scales from cultures around the world, with a pitch constellation, harp, effects, harmonies and loop recording.
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A multi-touch Web Audio synthesiser for shaping waveforms, delay, feedback and scuzz directly in the browser.
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About
Hi, I'm Luke Phillips — a software engineer and musician working across music technology, creative tools and AI. For more than a decade I've built interactive instruments and learning products, from browser-based synths to cross-platform apps and spatial hand tracking.
I like building things that make complicated musical ideas feel immediate and playable. My work brings together frontend and UX engineering, creative coding, audio, MIDI and real-time interaction, with the technology getting out of the way as quickly as possible.