Bloom: Living World / Small World
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As a decades long pioneer of generative and ambient music, Brian Eno instantly saw the possibilities offered by newly emergent phone apps. In 2008, he and software developer Peter Chilvers, collaborated on their first - Bloom, an award winning, generative, visual music app that can be enjoyed on any smart device. Utilising Eno's original music and visuals, it allows the user to explore elaborate patterns and melodies by simply tapping the screen.

Not many apps have remained fresh and relevant after sixteen years in the way that Bloom has. Over the years it has featured in films and television, gained new features, and spawned an extended 10-year anniversary edition, Bloom: 10 Worlds which introduced 10 new realms to further explore. Bloom: Open Space premiered in The Transformatorhuis in Amsterdam in February 2018. The installation was Eno's first foray into augmented reality with a generative music experience in situ using the HoloLens.

In Bloom: Living World, Brian Eno has reimagined Bloom as a studio work, applying treatments to an hour long recording and adding subtle sonic touches. It is accompanied by Bloom: Small World, which encapsulates the whole experience into a concise 5 minutes and thirty four seconds. Originally released in October 2024 as an Amazon Original, it surpassed 17 million streams in its first three months, and will now be released on all digital music services on January 31, 2025.

Accompanying the music is an original video edit, also generated from the app, with total views exceeding 120,000 YouTube plays. Watch here

In Eno, the new film about his creative life, Brian explains that his approach to making each piece of music is to think of it as creating a new world. In Bloom: Living World this is illustrated with elegance and simplicity.

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