Creative technology · Arts storytelling
Music, as the artist truly intends it.
SynScore helps neurodiverse artists and musicians express the full intention of their work — and brings remarkable stories about the arts to the screen.
Our first project
A painting that moves with the music.
Some composers have synaesthesia. When they hear music, they see colour — each note, each chord, each shift in harmony carries its own hue. Until now, that inner picture has been theirs alone.
Our first project is with a synaesthetic composer: mapping those colours precisely, note by note and chord by chord, and revealing them as a living painting that unfolds alongside the music — on screen, and in performance.
Every colour comes from the composer. Our tools record what they perceive and render it faithfully; they never guess or invent. The result is not a visualiser laid on top of the music, but a view into how the composer experiences it.
Capture
The composer records the colour they see for every note and harmony, using simple colour-picking tools designed with them.
Map
Those colours are linked to a detailed harmonic analysis of the score, so the right colour arrives at the right moment.
Reveal
A real-time graphics engine will paint the colours live, in step with the performance, so audiences will see what the composer hears.
For artists
Tools that follow the artist’s lead.
Many artists experience their work in ways that conventional formats cannot hold. Our first composer is the starting point. Our aim is a platform any neurodiverse musician or artist can use to bring more of their inner world into what audiences experience.
The artist leads
Technology should support creativity and never replace musicians. Every decision about the work stays with the artist.
Faithful, not generated
What audiences see is drawn from the artist’s own perceptions, so it is reliable enough for live performance.
Designed with neurodiversity
Built alongside neurodivergent artists from the start, with access needs considered at every stage rather than added later.
Music made clearer
Grounded in real music theory, so audiences, students and researchers can understand the music more deeply.
SynScore Studio
Stories about the arts, told with new ways of filming.
SynScore is also a content maker. We bring remarkable stories about artists, music and creativity to the screen — using the newest production techniques where they help tell the story better, not for their own sake.
Virtual production
Real-time environments on LED volumes and green screen, letting us place artists inside the worlds their work creates.
Immersive experiences
Work for domes, installations and live performance, where audiences step into the music rather than watch it.
AI-enabled visuals
Used carefully and transparently, AI tools help us build images that would otherwise be impossible, always in service of the artist.
Our first film explores what it is like to see music — and what happens when an audience can finally see it too.
Bio & credits
Andrea Miller, founder.
Andrea Miller is a producer, director and strategist working where creativity, technology and audiences meet, with a focus on AI and virtual production.
As Editor of BBC Arts Features she originated a new drama-documentary approach for BBC Two’s Dickens. As Head of Factual at BBC Scotland she grew a £4m production base to £16m, winning RTS and International Emmy awards. With VP Futures funding she produced and directed The Surreal Life, an eight-minute virtual-production short and the basis of a drama series in development.
She holds a London Business School Executive MBA (2010), and began her career in music as an NME writer, radio presenter and club DJ, discovering Wet Wet Wet.
Selected credits
| Title | Role | Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| The Surreal Life — with a virtual-production short film of the same name (2023), and a four-part drama series in development | Producer and director, Sunnyside Productions | Development funding from VP Futures (Epic Games, ILM, StoryFutures, Innovate NI) |
| Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Imagine, BBC) | Executive Producer | Best Arts Documentary, Banff Rockies 2011 |
| Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive | BBC Executive Producer (produced by IWC) | International Emmy 2009 |
| Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives — Mark Everett of Eels in search of his physicist father | Head of Department, BBC Scotland Factual (produced by Andrew Thompson and Louise Lockwood) | RTS and Grierson 2008 |
| David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge | Executive Producer | Grierson Award 2002 |
| Dickens, BBC Two | Editor, BBC Arts Features — originated a new drama-documentary approach | Lifted BBC Two arts audiences from 1.8m to 3.5m |
Let’s make something together.
Whether you are an artist, a partner, a broadcaster or a researcher, we would love to hear from you.