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.
Correction. (Score:2, Insightful)
Brian Eno? God? Please.
Anyone with a modicum of brain activity knows Lemmy is God! [youtube.com]
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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!)
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Censory redactionish! (Score:2)
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maybe it was flushed?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno [wikipedia.org]"
Interesting article...I'd never heard of him before. I saw he'd produced some records of bands I have heard of (U2, Paul Simon, Bowie...etc). I rarely read liner notes on albums anymore about who produced what, etc.
He seems to have had a lot of output which seems strange coming from a self described 'non-musician'...with little training or skills when he started.
While I'm open to try to give most anything a try listen once...I'm gue
He's good. (Score:2)
Eno turned Coldplay from kinda moody into much better!
The app review says little about what it does however. Is it like the KAOSOLATOR with a screen and more that 4 bars of memory?
http://emusician.com/elecinstruments/emusic_korgko_kaossilator/ [emusician.com]
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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.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God [wikipedia.org]
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Brian Eno? God? Wow... (Score:2)
I'll never complain about another fanboi pretentious Cory Doctorow story ever again, I promise!!
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I only promise not to complain about Roland Piquepaille articles.
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I only promise not to complain about Roland Piquepaille articles.
I doubt that you will ever need to.
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I admit that find that some people really take fan way to far.
I mean really why care so much for any musician? Of course I am constantly disturbed by how many people know who Maddona is but don't know who Jonas Salk was.
Re:Brian Eno? God? Wow... (Score:4, Funny)
I am constantly disturbed by how many people know who Maddona is but don't know who Jonas Salk was.
What style of music did he play ?
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How's that supposed to work? Most of the stuff we like costs money.
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Please leave me out of this. Most of the stuff I like doesn't cost money.
So, what, you got your computer, network, internet connection, music player, digital camera, video games, television/DVDs, and cell phone all for free?
Please.
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Who's saying he likes those?
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Who's saying he likes those?
He frequents Slashdot, which constantly 'advertises' products.
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So you have nothing you've purchased that has been covered on Slashdot?
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and fluffy clouds
That was The Orb, not Eno.
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With one or two exceptions, Slashdot's a lousy place to come to in order to read about those things.
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:Link Warning! (Score:5, Insightful)
You're the one who installed iTunes...
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Because it's the best program (that I've found) for windows that actually does daap correctly and doesn't look horrible.
So when I OpenVPN home I can stream my music from home.
So if you'd like to offer any alternatives that don't look like shit, I'm open to suggestions.
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that actually does daap correctly and doesn't look horrible
what, you mean the closed, propeitary protocol [wikipedia.org] developed by apple for iTunes? what a shock.
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That firefly media server has no problem serving up?
It's a trap! (Score:3, Funny)
Suggestion? Get out now! Leave every apple product you can while you still have the chance. If y
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I started a thread complaining that the link in the summary launched iTunes.
By all means. Please suggest an alternative to what I want done:
Streaming music server.
Works with a client on OS X, client on Windows. Server on Linux.
Works with XBMC.
Automatically reads my m3u playlists that I have created.
Has the option for 'smart' playlists. "Artist=%&Year>1985".
Right now firefly and iTunes scratch that itch. I don't even have an iPod. I tried the daap plugin for Winamp, that didn't work. I tried some bast
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Goodness! Someone's got a case of the Mondays! The problem here is that iTunes blows. There's some nice things about it, but there are some highly annoying corporate overlord types of things to not like, too. Reasonable people can probably agree that it does some nice things, but it also is invasive and bloated.
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Congratulations. You didn't answer the question.
Bloated or not. It, along with firefly, do what I want. Any more red herrings?
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Leave every apple product you can while you still have the chance.
Done!
I ran my iPhone over with my car and installed Windows on all my Macs.
...or did you have something else in mind?? Oh shii--
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Some of us have jobs where we don't get to dictate what OS we run.
If you can figure out how to get *all* the toolboxes for Matlab/Simulink working on Linux, in addition to all the XPC compiler stuff, then I'm all ears.
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Yeah, but that doesn't mean he wants it opened when he clicks links on the /. front page.
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10x worse than a PDF link.
Why is a link to a PDF-document worse than a link to say an HTML-document? Seems there is little difference between the two to me.
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10x worse than a PDF link.
Why is a link to a PDF-document worse than a link to say an HTML-document?
Because Adobe, provider of the software most often associated to read pdfs, has taken to the unholy combination of embedding into browsers to auto-view PDFs, and bloating the shit out of said software, resulting in an extended wait as the crapware loads itself up, then loads the PDF, then waits more while it figures out how to display it.
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Foxit reader.
I have saved you an estimated 3 years of your life.
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Already use it. But then, I'm one of the enlightened ones. ;)
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Only if you are not smart enough to install foxit or another PDF reader.
Hell you can get "speedupadobereader" app that strips out most of the useless plugins that makes reader launch 3X faster and use 1/2 the ram.
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BADLY MADE ones are and if you fairly add in the file size of the JPG and PNG files that are loaded with the HTML.
A properly designed PDF is not any larger than a HTML+image files.
Sadly, most PDF's are not created properly
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Perhaps you shouldn't have bought that cheap read-only harddisk.
Brian Eno? (Score:2)
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Yeah, but Eno isn't busy re-recording and ruining all his old albums and prohibiting the original versions from being released.
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Wrong. The only true God of electronic music is Jean Michel Jarre [wikipedia.org].
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Only when Didier Marouani is a semi-god of electronic music.
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Although his first two albums sucked.
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Sorry, but Prodigy 'The Fat of the Land' is the first and last good techno album.
Probably every song on that album has been in at least one blockbuster movie (not that being in a movie makes it good). Some of them have been in dozens.
News? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:News? (Score:5, Funny)
News about new iPhone apps?
There's a website for that.
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It's news if you're a fan of Brian, not so much if you're not. Since I AM ... it's news to me ... I was under the impression that his newest app was something called AIR ( http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/2009/09/air-brian-enos-new-iphone-app.html [blogspot.com] ) and didn't know about this release.
Since I'm not a fan of Apple, its over-priced, locked-in and locked-down douchebaggery, though ... it's all no use to me, except to wish i could get Bloom, Trope and AIR for my PC.
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. (Not to mention his awesome music).
Much of the discussion in this thread seems very similar to what I used to hear from my friends when I was younger, regarding my appreciation of the Eno, though (my friends were a little politer in their dismissiveness, but the sentiment was the same). It's really worth remembering to reign in the fanboism, Rob! XD
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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
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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] :-)
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Re:ill catch hell for posting it... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is where the so-called Slashdot "editors" actually do some "editing". Slashdot always was "What Rob Malda Thinks Is Cool," so I'm not bothered by stuff like this. Editors help to establish a publication's flavor, and part of Slashdot's flavor is Brian Eno and The Who.
I just wish they'd also take on the editor's duty to unfuck some of the more idiotic summaries as well.
Who is Brian Eno? (Score:4, Insightful)
Who is Brian Eno?
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Brian Eno is a "well known" (in circles that might possibly care), experimental musician. In short, nobody.
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But he is nobody's hero.
A hero.
Saves a drowning child
Cures a wasting disease
a Hero...lands the crippled airplane
Solves great mysteries
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Yet he's still done much many many more important things than you*, so I guess that makes you less than nobody.
*e.g., pretty much created the genre called ambient music; being largely responsible for some of David Bowie's best albums; both producing mega-sellers by bands such as U2 and adding a completely unique touch to lesser-known but highly-regarded albums such as Nico's The End. I definitely don't think he's god -- he's not even on my radar as far as favorite musicians -- but you're either a fool or a
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You haven't read Atlas Shrugged?
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"According to a 1991 survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Atlas Shrugged was second to the Bible as the book that made most difference in American readers' lives."
OK. I have not read "Atlas Shrugged". But I will.
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I'd rather not be responsible for causing you to read that Roach Motel of a book. Just that you reminded me of the incantatory line from AS, "Who is John Galt?"
Please, read the Illuminatus! Trilogy instead, or Iain M Banks, or Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, or Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal, anything that has a sense of joy in it instead of an ex-totalitarian's exaltation of order. Maybe I'm just doing the universe's work, and my offhand remark is meant somehow to change your life despite my beliefs, and
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I wouldn't say AS is a roach motel of a book. The story is pretty good, and you don't have to buy into her entire philosophy to get some positive take aways from the book (don't mooch off other peoples hard work, work hard yourself, be responsible for yourself, stick to your ideals and don't sell out etc...).
That said, her dialog is lacking at times and she can get quite wordy. Some of the monologues in the book are so extremely long that I wonder if her editor actually edited anything.
I found The Fountai
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The guy who has designed the Windows 95 startup sound.
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Yeah no kidding, I want to know what office this guy works in were everyone has not only heard of Brain Eno
I think there is a generational gap phenomena here. Electronic music geeks from my generation know Brian Eno, as in "OMFG Its Brian Fucking Eno!!!" - You probably also havent heard of Tangerine Dream, as in "OMFG Its Tangerine Fucking Dream!!!"
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Here you go. [lmgtfy.com]
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Err, an extensive collection of breast bondage literature in the bathroom isn't normal? Perhaps that's why whenever I let my spare room the tenant normally quits after a week. Either that or it's the guy in the gimp suit I employ as a cleaner that's putting them off.
he may not be god... (Score:2, Interesting)
... but I saw his lecture last night on art and creativity "An evening with Brian Eno" and Long Beach State, and it was GREAT!
He tied art in with evolution and Copernicus, but mostly screwdrivers and haircuts.
A very well thought out, organized talk. I highly recommend it if you get the chance.
I also saw his digital kalaidscope "77 million paintings"
At the end he mentioned trope, but said it was more about the visual than his previous app.
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".
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Absolutely. This is my favorite movie about the space program of them all. The soundtrack is absolutely spot-on for it.
Eno? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't care about his music but his antiacid [canadamedicineshop.com] works pretty good.
Great... the windows tada guy... (Score:2)
Maybe I'm just different, but I think any man that made the windows 3.1 tada.wav sucks. It's like how Bob Dylan ruined himself for a decade of fans at Live Aid in the 1980s. Some things,you just don't do.
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, n
Free Advertising Scam (Score:2)
2: Get free geek advertising on Slashdot by claiming another new app is "News".
3: PROFIT!
Brian Eno (Score:2)
So What We Have Here Is The Modern Digital... (Score:5, Insightful)
I just hope this guy isn't also a German spy who is stealing secrets off of your iPhone while you're playing with his toy.
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.
Get your dogma right (Score:2)
No, no, no. Eno is not God. The correct form of worship, as promulgated back a few decades, went like this:
"If Fripp is God, then Eno is Jesus."
Geez... get it RIGHT, people, otherwise you just come off as mindless fanatics!
Bought it (Score:2)
Bought it, and frankly, it sucks. Bloom was great, but IMHO the new one sounds like shit. Don't waste your money.
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Our old fridge lasted longer than the average rabbit.
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Re:God? Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Man shot the rabbit and bulldozed the tree, and said "WHERES YOUR GOD NOW BITCH?"
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No, not really.
Neither Brian Eno nor literalism are God. Some people seem to really like them though. :)
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So, if God's so great where is His iPhone app?
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Maybe the dingo ate your T-Rex. - Elaine
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I think it crashed into a tree in the seventies.
Re:Brian Eno to God (Score:4, Funny)
Specifications for the universe are very important! (Or did you mean speck?)
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New programs are created all the time for Windows and Linux. In fact, most days. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I CARE JUST BECAUSE ITS ON THE IPHAIL?
Because God wrote it?