CuriositySoundLightFor purists
GrayCat Labs makes instruments for music and photography from computational models of analog processes. We rebuild the mechanism behind a sound or an image — the circuit, the emulsion, the chemistry — and hand you the controls that actually shape it.
Sound comes from oscillators, filters and amplifiers interacting. An image comes from light in an emulsion, development, dyes and print. Not a preset. Not a LUT laid over a finished picture.
You adjust what would change the result in a studio or a darkroom: warm-up and component tolerance, developer temperature and agitation.
Parameters carry their origin and confidence. Where the documentation is silent, the assumption is written down — never hidden.
A software synthesizer built on a model of the analog signal path. Two channels — modelled oscillators or wavetables — run through shared modelled filters, amplifiers and envelopes.
A digital darkroom built on a physical and chemical model of colour negative film — from exposure and development to scanning and print.
pages and scanned sheets in the Carbon platform research library — schematics, service documentation, factory calibration procedures
original wavetables in Carbon 80, running inside the same modelled signal path
US patents referenced across FilmLab technical material, alongside film data sheets and scientific literature
layers in the FilmLab colour negative model — nine of them emulsion, three per colour record
Both instruments are in development and not yet available to download. For early access, press, or licensing FilmLab's film technology — including in mobile photo apps — write to us.
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