As Warren Ellis searches out physical copies of his music collection, I got to thinking of the various digital music products that I can no longer access.
Loscil - Adrift
This first appeared for iOS and I waited to get the Android version. Turns out he couldn't get it through the regular app store, only Amazon's version (size limitations?). I had to install Amazon's store on my Nexus 7, then download it through there. I liked it, but it never quite worked all the time and would shut off.
Since my Nexus 7 died, this has been lost to me as it won't download to the older Kindle I'm using.
A (non-endless) version of 'Bannockburn', is on Bandcamp.
Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers - Bloom: 10 Worlds
Again, something released on iOS, Bloom was a great generative music app. I used to play it on my wife's 1st Gen. iPad, but it never came to Android. A decade later, 'Bloom: 10 Worlds' appeared in Google Play.
I would set this going then throw it to my Chromecast to have it playing through the TV. When my Nexus 7 died so dit it-unable to run on my newer Pixel 2 phone. Peter Chilvers himself replied when i ran into this...
"Unfortunately there’s an audio glitch that only occurs on the Google Pixel range, so we took the precaution of excluding it until that can be fixed. At time of writing, it seems to be beyond our control, but if we can find a way to work around it, we’ll make it available."
I live in hope.
MUJI - MUJI to Sleep
This was an app that would play nature sounds to help you sleep. One of the extra cool things it did was...
"Use the smartphone's light and camera to measure your pulse. From countless sound combinations, the best relaxing music for you is created."
It's now branded 'MUJI to Relax', so that's a win. MUJI has a good article on sleep too.
SSEYO Koan
In the back of my mind I remember a Flash/SSEYO Koan thing too. It was an early generative music player, but I lost that late 90's.
