Brian Eno: "Scape" - iPad app

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/apps...cape-ipad-apps
Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music

'It didn't start out as a bunch of random, funny electronic sounds…'



"I might retire, now I've found a way to make myself redundant," chuckles Brian Eno, fairly early on in our conversation in his West London studio.


Hold the headlines, though. Eno is neither redundant nor packing in the day job. But working with his collaborator Peter Chilvers, he has released an app called Scape that enables any iPad owner to create "generative" music with some of his own compositional tools and sounds.


It launched earlier in September, described on the App Store as an app that "makes music that thinks for itself", as well as "a new form of album which offers users deep access to its musical elements".


The creative side involves creating scenes – 'Scapes' – by choosing backgrounds and colours, then dragging shapes onto them in various combinations. The result is ambient music that's not under your direct control, but rather plays itself based on the scene you've created.


It's the follow-up to a previous app made by Eno and Chilvers, called Bloom, which was released for iPhones in the early days of the App Store: October 2008. However, Scape's roots go a long way further back than that.