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Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App
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.
Brian Eno? God? Please.
Anyone with a modicum of brain activity knows Lemmy is God!
Trolling is a art,
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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.
Please. Everyone knows that Edgar Froese is the one true God of electronic music.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Mod me all you want but seriously...how is this news?
I'll try anything once. Twice if it tastes good
but fuck Brian Eno. this is not news for nerds its advertisement for mall zombies and douchebags.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Who is Brian Eno?
While I'm not here to debate the existence of god or any such being. There are many that do, and I'm surprised at how low your standards are for calling one "God" compared to what others may do. For example, their "God" created the universe, heavens, man, life etc etc etc. You have chosen to use this term to a composer of Ambient music. This reminds me of the Bill Cosby quote,
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good. The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
Is this new? Or is this the 10 second ad I have to suffer through before the page loads? WTF kind of retarded person wrote this thing? Apparently writing an iPhone app can make one godlike. Geez now the $99 registration to Apple doesn't seem half as bad.
... 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.
I'll never complain about another fanboi pretentious Cory Doctorow story ever again, I promise!!
He would kick the story poster too, That's what Brian Eno would do.
How's that supposed to work? Most of the stuff we like costs money.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, 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".
Specifications for the universe are very important! (Or did you mean speck?)
this app sounds interesting. too bad I'm not going to pay $3.99 just to see if it is. If ever there was an app that needed a demo...
No more douchebagervisement tag?
Walk with Music;
I don't care about his music but his antiacid works pretty good.
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.
This is my sig.
No it doesn't, this story BLOWS!
Please leave me out of this. Most of the stuff I like doesn't cost money.
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.
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.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
1: Tens of thousands of iPhone apps.
2: Get free geek advertising on Slashdot by claiming another new app is "News".
3: PROFIT!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Why are people slamming Eno on here? That surprises me. Are you guys really familiar with his work? If you don't at least have Here Come the Warm Jets or Taking Tiger Mountain and some of his ambient works, you aren't qualified to comment. Having used Windows 95 is not enough. His work is generally agreed upon to be substantially innovative and influential and I was happy to see it on Slashdot.
I only promise not to complain about Roland Piquepaille articles.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So what we have here is the modern digital Theremin. Why not have just said that from the beginning?
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.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
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?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
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/
Where's the Southpark crew when you need them? And I hate you for getting that tune stuck in my head!
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.
Who's saying he likes those?
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.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Maybe he was talking about happiness... and fluffy clouds.
Good job shooting yourself in the foot. Bought a product, started a thread complaining about it. Then continued by complaining that no other program replaces the fake functionality created by the LOCK-IN you are trapped in. I'm sure you were amused when iTunes updates install browsers and if you ever try to leave remember that ipod updates will still fuck up the interaction with non itunes aps until they fix it.
Suggestion? Get out now! Leave every apple product you can while you still have the chance. If you don't soon it will be too late and you won't be able to do anything without more very expensive apple products.
I only promise not to complain about Roland Piquepaille articles.
I doubt that you will ever need to.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
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 ?
Squirrel!
and fluffy clouds
That was The Orb, not Eno.
Squirrel!
Who's saying he likes those?
He frequents Slashdot, which constantly 'advertises' products.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
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!
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
I said most. I admit to a computer and an internet connection. I don't play commercial games, I haven't bought a DVD in years, my TV set from 1990 rests in the basement, I don't particularly "like" cell phones.
Even if I did like all those things you named, I can easily name plenty more that don't even cost a smile: -
Really, though, I was trying to make a different point: My disapproval of our obsession over consuming distractions in the wider sense on a regular basis, and the general assumption that everything worth having costs money. I understand my value system might differ substantially from yours. Sorry for the guided idealism.
"He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss."
With one or two exceptions, Slashdot's a lousy place to come to in order to read about those things.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I have never ever bought anything that was advertised on Slashdot, except the idea of Free Software.
So you have nothing you've purchased that has been covered on Slashdot?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
He clicked on an ad that said "Free i Pod "
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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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And ponies.
Bark less. Wag more.
Looks like you got the joke *golfclap* congratulations on making it less funny with your reply. Waging a war against humor on slashdot, huh?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Agreed - and this is also a counter-argument to those who whine "but you could just disable Apple stories if you don't like them". This story is in mobile.
What's an "iPhone"?
I agree. However, I fail to see how that's relevant to my original point that your inclusive "we" doesn't include me and was therefore a little presumptuous, or my restated point that I disapprove of an obsession with material possessions.
I think that's what I said, yes. It's not what I meant to say, but it's probably true anyway.
Well that depends, Orb only covered the little ones. :)
So... what, you're here to get directions on how to get away from here? Hehe.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)