Let’s talk iPhone apps
I don’t even own an iPhone or even an iPod Touch yet. (Sigh.) But when I do, I’m sure to download the Bloom app.
This program allows you not only to create ambient music that sounds like Brian Eno. Since Eno, along with partner, Peter Chilvers, designed the program, you are essentially creating his ambient music. No matter how you set the parameters on this software, it sounds like Music for Airports or On Land. I can’t decide, in the big scheme, whether that’s really such a good thing, but for $3.99 I’ll give it a ride.
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I’ll probably be willing to give it a go, though the list of free Apps on my iPod Touch is miles long compared to the payware. I’ve got Super Monkey Ball, Spore: Origins, Sim City (basically Sim City 2000), Enigmo and my vote for best tower defense game on the platform – Fieldrunners. I have yet to purchase something that isn’t a game! That said, I’ve spent nearly fifty bucks on iPod Touch/iPhone gaming this year. toucharcade.com provides great reviews for all that stuff. I think if I had an actual iPhone I’d be persuaded by some of the GPS-enabled apps. With all this gaming, I wish I had the 2nd-gen iPod for faster gaming.
Sounds good to me! I’m a fan of getting Music for Airports and its ambient cousins out of the concert hall, and this might help. I like ambient music a lot, but there’s an irritating tendency for new music ensembles to perform it in concert halls, which is just plain idiotic. I mean, the whole point of this music is to not pay attention to it, and they’re playing it in the cathedrals of structural listening. Talk about missing the point. Not to mention that it makes awful concert music.
Wow, I’m surprised they actually performed ambient music in a concert hall. You’d think someone would have said, “Hey wait! Is this a contradiction?”
Also, did you know they tried playing “Music for Airports” in an airport? People ended up feeling and stressed and anxious and couldn’t explain why.
But I definitely like the idea of making my own Eno-inspired ambient music.