{"id":1908,"date":"2010-01-03T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:03","slug":"generative-music-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1908","title":{"rendered":"Generative Music for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1909\" style=\"margin: 5px 20px; float: left;\" title=\"air\" src=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/air.jpg\" alt=\"bloom, trope, air\" width=\"212\" height=\"272\" \/><em>Bloom<\/em>, <em>Trope<\/em> and <em>Air<\/em> are three applications developed by Brian Eno and the musician \/ software designer Peter Chilvers that brings to the iPhone the concept of generative music popularized by Eno.<\/p>\n<p>Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, Bloom\u2019s innovative controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualisations.<\/p>\n<p>Darker in tone, Trope immerses users in endlessly evolving soundscapes created by tracing abstract shapes onto the screen, varying the tone with each movement.<\/p>\n<p>Air is described as &#8220;An endless Music for Airports&#8221;. It assembles vocal and piano samples into a beautiful, still and ever changing composition, which is always familiar, but never the same.<br \/>\nAir features four \u2018Conduct\u2019 modes, which let the user control the composition by tapping different areas on the display, and three \u2018Listen\u2019 modes, which provide a choice of arrangement. For those fortunate enough to have access to multiple iPhones and speakers, an option has been provided to spread the composition over several players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generativemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloom, Trope and Air are three applications developed by Brian Eno and the musician \/ software designer Peter Chilvers that brings to the iPhone the concept of generative music popularized by Eno. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, Bloom\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1908\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[599,685,693],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confine","tag-ambient","tag-apple","tag-eno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20172,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/20172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}