Performia is being built as one engine with two threads — learning and mastery, and creative and embodied flourishing. AI as teacher, accompanist, and collaborator across music, movement, dance, voice, and performance.
The room is the instrument. The screen is a mirror. Never the performer.
Placeholder footage — not Performia sessions. No Performia session has run yet. The studio reel lands in these slots when it is shot.
Two threads, one engine
Teaching and accompaniment are the same problem.
Both are the problem of following a human at the edge of their ability — meeting them where they are, right now, and moving with them. Point that engine at a song and it is a band. Point it at a learner and it is a coach. It is the same mathematics, and that is why this is one product and not two.
thread one
Learning and mastery
The training literature points at a sweet spot: people grow most when they fail a fraction of the time — not too easy, not too hard. Performia is being built to hold a learner at that edge, and to keep them there. Never frustrating, never boring.
Academics compressed, so the rest of the day is freed for building, leading, and real projects. We are aiming at the class of gains that schools like Alpha report — their reported result, not ours.
thread two
Creative and embodied flourishing
Movement to sound, with nothing strapped to you. Step in front of a camera and the room answers: raise a hand and the sound brightens, move and it plays, rest and it goes quiet. The on-ramp for people who have never called themselves musicians.
And an accompanist that follows the player rather than forcing the player onto a grid — the same engine, doing the same job, in a different room.
Joy is not decoration. It is biological regulation.A space that offers only productive struggle burns people out — the nervous system sustains effort in cycles of push and recovery. Play builds trust between strangers; music synchronizes a group. The joy is the recovery mechanism that makes everything else sustainable.
Three ways in
Motion
Your body is the instrument.
Step in front of a camera and the room responds. Raise a hand and the sound brightens; move and it plays, rest and it goes quiet. No controller, no wearable. The doorway for people who don't think of themselves as musicians — you're making music in the first ten seconds.
Stage
The musician's cockpit.
A living-chart teleprompter that scrolls your song with its lyrics and chords, your own song library, and an AI band that plays underneath your chart — in time and in your key. The chart is free. The band is the upgrade.
Studio
Rehearse the scene before it's real.
An internal lab where a session is authored, simulated with synthetic performers, rendered to video, and scored — before anyone sets up a camera. It's how new moves, ensembles, and room setups get designed and pressure-tested.
The companion
Aria is the who.
The products are the what she's helping with. She has a voice, she can see and hear the room, she has hands on the rig, and she remembers.
Talk to her hands-free — she answers grounded in what's actually happening, so she doesn't make things up about the sound or the room.
She does things — "start the band," "a little brighter," "stop everything." Real actions, not chat.
Safety is built in — sound can never get stuck on. "Stop everything" always works: by voice, by button, or from the command line.
Straight about what's real
What's playing today, and what we're building.
Performia is built on one house rule: no sound ships on a hunch, and nothing here is described as finished before it is. Here's the honest line between the two.
Working today
The living-chart teleprompter — your song scrolling with lyrics and chords
The AI band that plays your song's bass, keys, and drums in time and in key
Play-to-start — press Listen, start playing, the band recognizes your song and comes in
Motion: step in front of a webcam and your movement makes music — no controller, no wearable
Aria, the companion — talk to her hands-free; she starts the band, shapes the sound, and can always stop everything
Local-first by design — it runs on your machine, and a privacy switch cuts cloud egress
Being built
Ensemble — a whole room playing together, each person tracked
Learn — lessons that watch how you move and adapt
A band that follows you, bending to your timing instead of holding you to a grid
Band-member avatars and visual scenes
Venue and community-arts rooms for facilitators
Free chart → paid jam
Start free. The band is the upgrade.
Free
$0forever
Every musician needs a teleprompter.
Living-chart teleprompter — your song, scrolling, with lyrics and chords
Your own song library
Local-first: runs on your machine, nothing leaves it
Premium
$19per month
The upgrade is an AI band that plays your song with you.
Everything in Free
The AI band — plays your song's bass, keys, and drums in time and in key
Play-to-start: press Listen, start playing, the band comes in on your song
Cloud library sync across devices
Priority processing on new song imports
Premium isn't open to the public yet — join the list and you'll be first in when it is.
Performia is the learning and creative program of the Wildvine mission — music, movement, and performance made together, alive and worth doing for its own sake. It runs solo on a laptop today; it is being built to scale to rooms where a whole group plays at once.