Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196
Brian Eno, or as he is known to many in my office, "God," has released his second iPhone App. A followup to Bloom, this one is called Trope and supposedly creates darker music. You create music by drawing shapes on the iPhone's screen.
Link Warning! (Score:5, Informative)
The "Trope" link goes directly to the iTunes Store.
Which means if you have iTunes installed, but it isn't open, it launches. Thanks Mr Taco.
10x worse than a PDF link.
Re:Correction. (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not really a rabid Eno fan... but 801 [wikipedia.org] was an amazing band.
(Please excuse me for posting on this ridiculous thread!)
Not being an apologist... (Score:4, Informative)
I agree that this really smacks of straight-up advertising, but I will say that Bloom really is a pretty cool app; my kids love playing with it to the point that I can't ever use the phone for, you know, making phone calls.
Calling Brian Eno god may also rub people the wrong way, for a lot of reasons. I will say that he has quite a significant body of amazing work. Personally, my favorite is "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks".
Re:Who is Brian Eno? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:News? (Score:3, Informative)
Kinda - Air was created by Peter Chilvers (who co-authored the application Bloom with Eno) and vocalist Sandra O'Neill. Brian Eno is credited because the app is "based on concepts" he created, but I don't think he was directly involved at all.
Didn't care for Air, by the way. Bloom is definitely nicer. I'll check out Trope soon.
How the summary should've looked: (Score:2, Informative)
Brian Eno, an English musician [insert Wikipedia link], recently released a new iPhone App. This new app, called Trope [insert link to story], is a followup to the popular Bloom [insert /. link to previous story], which allows users to create music by drawing shapes on their iPhones. Trope promises to bring darker music to your iPhone, and is available on the iTunes store [insert app store link]. This has been very exciting news around the office, as many here consider Brian Eno's works to be great.
There, now there's actual information about what you're talking about, so the people who have never heard of Brian Eno can appreciate what's been done. And I even toned down your irrelevant aside about how amazing you think he is so we can continue to pretend that there are editors working here.
Re:News? (Score:3, Informative)
It has to be said, though that Eno's definitely nerd-newsworthy in himself; his involvement in the Long Now foundation, his interest in cybernetics - generative methods of creating art and music - all seem fairly relevant.
Plus he composed the Windows 95 startup sound! [wikipedia.org] :-)
Re:ill catch hell for posting it... (Score:1, Informative)
but fuck Brian Eno. this is not news for nerds its advertisement for mall zombies and douchebags.
But but but... The real nerds amongst us would know that Brian Eno wrote the theme for David Lynch's Dune, thus making this news for nerds (at least *real* nerds).
Re:Correction. (Score:3, Informative)
While I'm open to try to give most anything a try listen once...I'm guessing I'd not find his 'ambient music' (what is that, muzak?) similar to my favorite style of music (blues based guitar driven rock).
No, but you'd probably like "Baby's on Fire" from his first album, or "Third Uncle" or "The True Wheel" from his second.
just bought it, regret it. (Score:3, Informative)
Sigh, bloom is/was better. This is ok, but honestly it's just the same thing without any real innovation as far as I can tell. Great, I can use a square or a triangle or a star to draw lines around... blah.
Nothing new here, move along.