Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers have released Bloom: 10 Worlds – an expanded edition of their 2008 generative music app, Bloom.
The app is designed to be “Part instrument, part composition and part artwork.” You can play it interactively by touching the screen, but it also can be allowed to play generatively on its own.
Eno and Chilvers say that, if the original Bloom was a single, then this would be an album. It features 10 ‘worlds’, each exploring a new direction for Bloom. The first world the user encounters is an echo of the original app, with circles appearing where the user taps, while the later worlds each introduce new combinations of sounds, shapes, colors and rules of behavior.
Pricing and Availability
Bloom: 10 Worlds is available now, for iOS and Android, US $7.99.
Can’t beat the final boss.
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This is therapeutic, could see this working in medical facilities, eldery homes, etc. Better than FOX!
Tinkering with it now. Very soothing. Good stuff.
The absence of customizable parameters such as mood (mode), delay, shuffle, etc, all available in the original Bloom, makes this more a collection of predefined apps similar to Coldplay’s “Hypnotized” but at another level of complexity. One cannot help but feeling “stuck on a leaf in the vine”; this is more a collection of leaves whereas Bloom and Trope, for example, are located closer to the “softsynth” extremity of the “softsynth – digital windchime” axis.
Just for info : in Europe it’s 8.99€ ( i am commenting from Italy).
Bye all!
$7.99 on the US apple store.