Bloom Hack 3.1 + Redeem Codes

Bloom represents a brilliant fusion of Brian Eno's ideas about "generative music" with the computing power and mobility of an iOS device, courtesy of software designer Peter Chilvers, a fine composer in his own right. It was innovative when it was first released several years ago, and thankfully Chilvers has now updated it to be compatible with iOS 10.

You could regard this as a sort of infinite album: a software engine that you can either customize or leave to its own devices, which will endlessly create a kind of music that Eno has, at different times, called ambient, generative, and "thinking music." The music never exactly repeats itself, though of course it's restricted in other ways by the specific design of the software and the limited number of sound-types available. If you've ever enjoyed the work of Eno and others in this vein, I highly recommend Bloom.

I’ve had this app since it’s release and use it almost every night to help calm down before falling asleep. The generative music and it’s programmed forever changing order is both soothing, the almost repetition leading to a sort of gnosis.

I’ve been a fan of Bloom for 9 years. I wish SO much there were a way I could revert to a version where you don’t see the ad on the initial screen for the other apps by the same people. For me those ads, even though they’re small, are so distracting and against what I think the spirit and experience of Bloom should be. It’s frustrating. Please give an option not to see them - I would pay for it!

I downloaded several generative music apps. Bloom was one of them. Unfortunately the loan was a paid app right off the bat where as the others gave trials. The app that I downloaded and like the most is and Endel. Endel is much more complex in the sounds that it generates in the textures that it creates. I find Endel much more enjoyable to listen to then Bloom. Bloom is very sublime, and generates an ambience rather than an engaging musical exploration or experience.

This is such an underrated app. Bloom is lovely, peaceful, contemplative. A hidden gem. Do yourself the favor of downloading it.

That moment when you realize Bloom can make chords :)

Worth the $4! Wish more people would try it

At first I thought this app was kinda cool, but more of a curiosity when I was bored and bought/installed it while laid over in the airport. I played around with it for a bit... and got this very strange feeling I was "playing" with something completely new. I've never interacted with anything quite like this before. Thus far, this has to be the most innovative... creative... relaxing... inspirational.... app I've downloaded to date. Would buy it again in an abstract heart beat.

For the next version, I'd like to see a way to either select a different base sound, or a way to alter it's freqs. And, it'd be nice is the basic artwork created varied more than just circles.

Still, the genius of this app in part is it's simplicity and intuitive use. Makes me wonder why I was always so enthralled with ambient, minimal music compositions when it's soooo easy to make your own. ;-)

(warning: after awhile... I thought the app wasn't working right. I could no longer hear the lower tone sounds from the iphone. I tried everything to try and fix it, ie. reinstalling, rebooting, and even restoring. Then, I realized when I was first playing with it in the airport I was using my headphones. Some of the lower pitch tones aren't quite audible with the little iphone's speakers. But with headphones, or hooked up to a stereo.. the audio quality is very good at all pitches.)

I've been following Eno's work with ambient music and generative systems for a long time, and Bloom is the perfect, distilled essence of many of the projects he's been working on, most especially Koan, although this nowhere near as complex and configurable as Koan. Bloom basically generates ambient music based on nine differet chord patterns (or "moods" as the software calls them) and the work is comparable to Eno albums like Shutov Assembly and Thursday Afternoon (also some his older work like Apollo and Music For Airports). You can manipulate the sounds yourself by touching the screen and adding notes which will repeat for a certain amount of time which can be somewhat adjusted with a delay setting. What you get is a fantastic music app that can just sit in the background and provide you with an endless world of light ambient suspension. The only downside is that you cannot exit the program and leave the music on while you surf the web or whatever, you have to stay inside of Bloom to listen to it. But it is really is perfect for when you want some light, continuously evolving background noise, but want something musical and tonal as opposed to a white noise generator or whatnot. Best $4 I've ever spend on any piece of software ever.

There are many apps for the iPhone, but few of them truly showcase what the device is all about. To me, Bloom is one of those apps. Bloom is a simple but very powerful and visually appealing musical song generator. The app meshes exactly with the iPhone brand the Apple brand of powerful elegance and excellent interactive design.

Bloom is interesting enough for the adult music lover, but easy enough for my 5-year-old son to play and enjoy, and even to go to sleep listening to!

As soon as I saw it was built by Brian Eno, I knew it would be a great app. If you like this app, you'll probably also enjoy Brian Eno's albums on iTunes.

I'm hoping that a few enhancements are made to this application over time (ability to play a continuous tone run by dragging your finger, a way to add in more "instruments" other than the current tonal notes, and a way to freeze the generated song and then play other songs on top of it, amongst other things), but I still give it 5 stars. It opened my eyes to what the iPhone is truly capable of... and just wait 3-5 years from now when the device is 2-4 times faster and can handle tens or hundreds of simultaneous notes playing and displaying.