I’ve just released a new update for Soundscape 2 that targets faster devices and adds a number of interesting new effects.
Anemone version 1.5 is now in the App Store. The ability to control the random variation for most of the key variables is a big improvement.
This interview is such a delight to me. It embodies so much of my inner world; the things I think about, the things that interest me most.
Managed to grab this Anemone screenshot before it transformed.
How far can you abstract away from a tunnel and it still be a tunnel?
using technology to explore altered states
of consciousnessMy name is David De Candia and I create iPad apps that use colour, symmetry and flowing motion to naturally induce and amplify altered mind states.
I draw my inspiration directly from gaze-based meditation practices, hypnogogic dream states and psychedelic experience.
I think that the ancient mystic traditions, had they the technology available to them, would not have been content with static yantra and mandala artwork. Rather they would have explored, as I am exploring, the possibilities offered by the computer’s ability to generate an endless stream of unfolding imagery.