Review of Bloom 10 Worlds by Kelly

As part of The Bridge Project , This New Ground have been researching and developing new, inclusive collaborative methods of digital music-making via online platforms with our community of learning disabled artists. As part of our R&D, This New Ground’s participant, Kelly, has been collaborating with community musician, Sam Dook, to explore and implement new digital tool-kits and resources to enable Kelly to create and share original compositions. Kelly loves to meditate and practise yoga in her free time and during her collaboration with Sam she plans to create an ambient soundtrack to accompany her yoga. As part of the project, This New Ground have provided Kelly with an iPad and a suite of music-making applications to experiment with. Over the past week Kelly has been exploring Bloom 10 Worlds app. Bloom 10 Worlds is a new and hugely expanded version of musician Brian Eno and software designer Peter Chilver’s classic generative music app, Bloom. In Bloom: 10 Worlds, users are able to make a range of ambient and never-ending music with just their fingertips. Kelly hopes to layer some of the sounds from the different worlds into her yoga music. Below is Kelly’s review of the Bloom 10 Worlds.

Kelly’s Review

All the worlds have soft sounds like bells with lots of different colours, like purples, blues, pinks, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, greys and whites. I like how all the colours keep changing. I like the settings because I can stop and pause when I want to. I like the erase button best. When I’m using the app I feel like I am the one in charge.

Origin

When I touch the screen, I see a small circle and then it gets bigger and bigger. I like the sound because it’s soft.

KARABEKIAN

When I touch the screen I see stripes that go up and down. I like the pink and purple colours changing all the time. I like the sound because it feels nice and soft.

UNFURLED

When I touch the screen, I see bigger stripes and I like the colours and I like the sound because it sounds like a violin. When it stops, it’s like a big curtain on a stage.

PROUN

When I touch the screen I see black and grey stripes then they change into circles that are purple and grey and green. I like how they all join up together and it sounds like Sam’s tongue drum. I really like this one.

MULL

When I touch the screen, it’s purple with a big white circle. It looks like the moon but then orange and yellow and red stripes cover the screen, mixing together and then it all looks very orange. It sounds like a cello and I really like it. It feels calm.

BINARIES

When I touch the screen I can see the colour blue and I can see the sun in the middle, then the background changes colour and the sun looks like it’s behind the screen. The more I touch the screen I see a black circle and lots of white bubbles all coming together. It sounds nice and that music reminds me of when I was a child. It feels relaxing.

NIGHT LANDING

When I touch the screen I can see a dark screen with white mountains in the background. Then stripes come and it looks a bit like fireworks. It sounds a bit too loud. I don’t like it when it’s too high. But I like all the colours and the mountains.

PETRI

When I touch the screen it looks very beautiful. It looks like a cloudy sky and when I touch the screen again and again, it feels like I’m pressing into water to make bubbles. I really like this one. It sounds like a piano.

EDO

When I touch the screen I see a red screen, then I see more mountains that keep changing colours. I like the blue mountains best and it feels like the sound is soft. I think it sounds like a piano in a church. I like it.

LATE

When I touch the screen I think it looks like the moon in the dark sky and I think the stripes on the side look like lamp posts. Then when I touch it again, I hear lots of bell sounds and I see lots of white circles and stripes as well. When I stop touching the screen the sound plays on its own and then begins to slow down and all the stripes cover the circles and then it looks like a curtain. I like it because it sounds soft and I like when it slows down.

“I would recommend people to use Bloom 10 Worlds App because it is very easy.”