Bloom
So the iPhone finally became available in Guernsey and I picked one up. I have to say so far I'm loving it. I had an iPod touch and of course that could run applications like the iPhones. But the apps that interested me were based around the GPS and camera - which the iPod Touch doesn't have. In the next couple of posts, I'm going to give a little overview of a couple of my favourite apps - starting with BloomBloom is a 'generative music' creator, developed in part by Brian Eno. The idea is simple, you select a predefined 'mood' which provides an ambient background harmonic. You then tap on the iPods screen to play a note which repeats and eventually fades. The positioning of your tap (along with the mood) determines the pitch of the note. Bloom recognises multi-touch and so you can play multiple notes at once. High notes at the top of the screen, and the lows at the bottom. In many respects it reminds me of the Tenori-On. But give that cost nearly £600 and Bloom comes in at £2.99 the comparison ends there.It can produce so nice atmospheric tunes, and I actually intend to use Bloom to do the background music for some of my videos. Since music is not my strong point by any means, I love this little app for allowing even someone as musically talentless as me to knock up a tune.
