Brian Eno’s Latest Album, For iOS & Apple TV, Goes On Forever

Brian Eno’s ambient albums have always been a snapshot of musical systems that could generate unique music as long as you let the system play.
His ambient works make use of two techniques, both of which can be used to create a constant stream of new music:

• Eno’s earlier ambient music made frequent use of long, asynchronous loops, using sounds that would mesh together in musical ways, no matter how they coincided in time.
• Much of Eno’s later ambient music makes use of probabilistic events, where he arranges a group of sound events that work together and controls the probability and frequency of each type of event happening.

With his latest album, Eno is going beyond traditional formats and simultaneously releasing the album as an iOS and Apple TV application. It translates the same generative processes that he’s used previously into software, so that the app can play forever, always generating a new version of the work. Eno has also taken advantage of the device’s processing power so that Reflection will sound different at different times of day.
Here’s what Eno has to say about the Reflection app:
REFLECTION is the most recent of my Ambient experiments and represents the most sophisticated of them so far.
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REFLECTION in its album form – on vinyl or CD – is like this. But the app by which REFLECTION is produced is not restricted: it creates an endless and endlessly changing version of the piece of music.
Minimum requirements:

• iPad 3
• iPhone 5
• iPad mini 2
• AppleTV (4th generation)

Pricing and Availability
Reflection is available for US $39.99 in the App Store. If you’ve used Reflection, share your thoughts on it in the comments.

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