Psychodeli+

Press kit · October 19, 2026

Music,
made visible.

Psychodeli+ turns listening into a continuous world of color, motion and living patterns.

Choose an Apple Music playlist on Mac, play through speakers, and let the microphone guide the picture. On iPhone and iPad, bring the visuals to the music around you.

Download media kit ↓Fact sheet (.txt) ↓

Mac App Store edition: available now.
Released October 19, 2026.

Bright bands of rainbow color flow around a field of twisting knots
Psychodeli+ visual render · Tie Dye

For your notes

The facts.

Product
Psychodeli+ · a real-time music visualizer and visual instrument
Developer
Andy Edmonds / Mind Bending Pixels
Mac
On the Mac App Store since October 19, 2026. In-app Apple Music player; Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later.
iPhone & iPad
Available for visuals, touch interaction and microphone listening. The public phone and tablet apps do not include the Apple Music player.
Apple TV
Psychodeli TV is a separate app for ambient visuals. It does not include Apple Music playback.
Price
Free download. Optional one-time Psychodeli Touch purchase for extra visual controls. Apple Music catalog playback requires an Apple Music subscription; check the store for local pricing.
How it listens
The microphone hears music in the room, including music played through speakers. Headphones can play music, but do not feed that music to the microphone. The app does not analyze Apple Music’s protected audio stream.
Room Lights
Optional compatible Govee lights extend the palette into the room. Local connection and capabilities depend on the light model.
Privacy
Microphone and camera processing happens on the device. Audio and camera frames are not recorded, stored or transmitted. Privacy policy →

The story

From screen saver
to listening companion.

The original Psycho Deli was conceived and programmed for Windows by Benjamin McCurtain in 1996, with Mac programming by Eric Pitcher and Jefferson Provost. It shipped in Berkeley Systems’ After Dark screen saver collection.

Psychodeli+ takes that visual idea into a new medium: GPU-rendered patterns, musical analysis and a director that shapes the picture over time. Rhythm, harmony, energy and musical phrases inform a continuous visual journey. You can watch it unfold or play with the controls yourself.

The original Psycho Deli module running in Afterglow, with Peacock selected and its original author credits visible
The original Psycho Deli running in Afterglow. Original module © 1996 Berkeley Systems, Inc.; original author credits are visible in the app.

The original, alive again

Afterglow preserves.
Psychodeli+ evolves.

Afterglow is an independent preservation project that runs original After Dark modules on modern macOS. Its emulator executes the original 68k module code; modules are imported separately.

It offers a way to revisit Psycho Deli as it was. Psychodeli+ explores what its visual language can become as a music-responsive instrument.

Afterglow is a separate project. The screenshot is historical context, not a Psychodeli+ product image. After Dark and its modules belong to their respective rights holders.

Behind the picture

A little of the math.

Every pixel feels every node.

A field of moving nodes influences the whole image. Their combined influence bends the coordinates that become waves and color, making the picture feel connected rather than assembled from separate effects.

Chaos gives it motion.

Lorenz trajectories guide node movement. Changing distance metrics and periodic waves reshapes the field, from flowing bands to cellular and leopard-like patterns.

The music gives it direction.

Musical analysis follows more than loudness. The director uses rhythm, harmony, tension and phrases to shape visual choices over time.

The biological patterns emerge from field and wave interference; they are not a simulation of Turing’s reaction-diffusion equations.

Explore the interactive essay, Inside the Math →

Gold and dark brown leopard-like spots emerging from a continuous mathematical field
Leopard-like morphology from wave interference. Visual render, not a native app screenshot.

For publication

Artwork & downloads.

The ZIP includes the app icon, two visual renders, the fact sheet and credits. These are artwork assets; native Mac screenshots will follow the approved release.

App iconPNG · 1024 × 1024 ↓ Tie Dye visual renderJPEG · 2400 × 1350 ↓ Leopard Spots visual renderJPEG · 1200 × 675 ↓ Fact sheetPlain text ↓ Complete media kitZIP · artwork, facts & credits ↓

Credit Psychodeli+ / Mind Bending Pixels for the current artwork. You may use the included Psychodeli+ assets in editorial coverage of the product. The historical Afterglow screenshot is excluded from the media ZIP; this permission does not extend to third-party artwork or trademarks.

Press enquiries

Talk to the maker.

For interviews, review access and additional captures:
Andy Edmonds · Mind Bending Pixels