After several months enjoying this app I must pay my respect to the creators Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. I’ve been using this app for various reasons: to get inspiration for a new song, to explore all the possibilities (many), to relax and meditate, to calm my pets. At times I will hit the play button and let AI play for me for hours at length. Of all the 10 Worlds my favorite are Petri, Karabekian and Mull. Some of the sounds are a bit harsh, while others remind me of Tibetan bells and such. Definitely an app to have whether you’re a musician or not.

Would be nice to have a bass world

Digging it. I wish it had an option where the initial composition can evolve throughout all of the worlds (ex: I start in world 1, 5 minutes later the same composition automatically passes into world 2, 5 minutes later the same composition passes into world 3, etc.).

It would be an amazing app if you included google’s chromecast support!!!

... It now plays in the background! Yaah! My only other very minor criticism is that some of the sounds on some of the worlds come in abruptly and harsh at times. I found this app a nice complement to the entire series of apps by Brian Eno. For instance, tap the screen with some good spacing between the notes in the “Mull” #5 World and you get something vaguely that reminds me of the “Music for Airports“ algorithm. Using the same world, if you tap rapidly with several fingers (densely) across the whole screen, you get something like a cascading harp effect ... somewhat reminiscent like that on the “Ambient 3: Day of Radiance” album. Out of all Eno’s apps, I still like the “Scape“ app the best. It is even more interactive whereby you can build your own other worldly sound scapes. If I were to suggest anything to the developers, I would say look at making a Scapes 2 type app that was different and would complement the first one. (BTW, I am STILL trying to figure out what heck the question mark slider does! Care to tell me or is it just a Red Herring?)

I love this app. The added richness over the original Bloom app really makes for great listening and playing. I enjoy that each “world” is revealed only after you’ve experienced the prior ones. It’s a nice touch that encourages listening over “world surfing”. The app is not for everyone but for folks who enjoy pleasant background sounds -not to mention the ability to create your own music - it’s quite worthwhile.

Update: it now plays in the background. Thank you very much, developers! It now feels like a nice little ambient audio experiment while I do other things on my iPhone, which is lovely. Thank you. It makes some nice tranquil sounds I would like to listen to without staring at the screen, but the playback halts immediately when app goes to background. Including when in autoplay and timer mode, no background audio possible! The developer’s website states that all heir apps support background play but not finding it to be the case with Bloom 10, what a shame...

I put on my headphones start a cool tune then enjoy reading stuff on my device with awesome meditation sounds in the back ... Totally recommend getting this app... Thank you for the great update.

The next thing on my wish list would be to be able to control the “density” (how close together the notes are sounded). Air had this functionality. In that way, the sounds could be more “sparse” - for meditative purposes. Oh, and to those that want it to be like Scape - well it’s called Bloom 10 - Scape 10 is three years away! But seriously, perhaps in the meantime, the developers could make a “combination mode” where a person picks a sound from one of the ten Bloom worlds, places it on the screen, then chooses the next sound, places it, etc. That would certainly introduce considerably more variety. Then again, perhaps that is just not what Eno/Chilvers intended this app to be. Peace.

Wow, going into their code and checking a box for adding background play only took 2.5 months. Review improved to 3 stars as a result. A nice revisit of Bloom, but absolutely pales next to the scope and ambition of Scape, which I honestly thing may be Brian Eno's most impressive work of all.