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Download Bloom Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers are pleased to announce Bloom: 10 Worlds - a newly developed, augmented and expanded edition of the original 2008 Bloom app, which has explored appsfire uncharted territory in apps and has been dubbed "The First Great iPhone App" by Gizmodo.
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Requiring no musical or technical skills, the egalitarian and user-friendly Bloom app made it possible for anyone of any age to create music, simply by touching the screen.
Part instrument, part composition, and part illustration, Bloom's innovative controls allowed users to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies with just a tap of the screen. A generative music player took over when Bloom had been idle, creating an endless selection of compositions and the visualizations that went with them.
Bloom: 10 Worlds is a reimagining of the original - not just a remaster. If the original Bloom was a single, then it would be an album. The vastly expanded palette of sounds and sights can be experienced through 10 new "worlds", each exploring a new direction for Bloom.
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The first world the user encounters is an echo of the original app, with circles appearing where the user types, while subsequent worlds each introduce new combinations of sounds, shapes, colors, and game rules. behaviour.
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Bloom's Praise: 10 Worlds
"Few apps are truly iconic. Bloom was, and now its story lives on in this impressive and necessary follow-up." Television
Praise of the original Bloom
“The very first iPhone apps were universally boring. And then Bloom came out. It was immediately obvious that something special was going on. The app was artistically interesting - one that made you reconsider the relationship between technology and music. This has raised the bar for iPhone music apps. Gizmodo
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"A relaxing alternative to almost anything you can do with an iPhone." Wired
Brian Eno - musician, producer, visual artist, thinker and activist - first rose to international prominence as a founding member of Roxy Music, and immediately followed with a series of influential, pioneering solo albums and critically acclaimed - including future reissues Discreet Music, Music For Films, Music For Airports and On Land.
His visionary output includes albums with David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, Laurie Anderson and Coldplay, while his long list of collaborations includes recordings with John Cale, David Byrne, Grace Jones and James Blake.
Equally noteworthy are his highly acclaimed visual experiments with light and video, which have been exhibited around the world - from the Venice Biennale and the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg to Beijing's Ritan Park and the Sails of the Sydney opera.
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Eno began collaborating with musician/software designer Peter Chilvers on Will Wright's Spore video game. Their shared interest in generative music soon led to the development of a prototype for Bloom in 2008. Over the next decade, they deepened their experiences in the field, expanding their catalog of applications with Trope, Scape and Reflection.
During this period, Chilvers also acted as engineer and technical advisor to Eno on a number of other projects. A series of multi-speaker installations around the world laid the groundwork for 2016's The Ship, and they created Bloom: Open Space, a mixed reality installation in Amsterdam in 2018.
In addition to his work with Eno, Chilvers co-founded record label and online store Burning Shed, toured with Underworld's Karl Hyde as keyboardist and musical director, and recorded instrumental albums and collaborations with singer Tim. Bowness.
