There is space for improvement
The graphics and the music are exceptional as they come and rather artistic. I enjoy listening to it looping or even using it as a decorating illustration framework at home on the iPad version! Everybody is asking what it is and what it can do!
Sadly it drains the battery, since if screen is on battery safe mode, it will stop playing. As a user I would like to have the option to control this mode.
I want to listen to the music when my iPhone is in my pocket and I am on the go, that's not possible now as the screen is always on for now.
Also the is great interActivity with the visuals as you can stroke the screen for he graphics to change, but u find it kind if lifeless if that doesn't really have any affect apart for meaningfully stroking. At first interaction my expectation was that it would influence the musical piece and form some sort if dialogue with me and the soundtrack or give me some info like the background if each track perhaps.
I hope my feedback may benefit the development of this otherwise interesting app.
Sadly it drains the battery, since if screen is on battery safe mode, it will stop playing. As a user I would like to have the option to control this mode.
I want to listen to the music when my iPhone is in my pocket and I am on the go, that's not possible now as the screen is always on for now.
Also the is great interActivity with the visuals as you can stroke the screen for he graphics to change, but u find it kind if lifeless if that doesn't really have any affect apart for meaningfully stroking. At first interaction my expectation was that it would influence the musical piece and form some sort if dialogue with me and the soundtrack or give me some info like the background if each track perhaps.
I hope my feedback may benefit the development of this otherwise interesting app.
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Remix
Great app .. Fun to go back to time and again!
an interactive cd and music maker!
how can there be no reviews for this amazing piece? the music generator in this, called "glassworks", is positively addictive. i hope it gets a midi upgrade. the ability to send to 4 separate channels would be amazing. driving external synths synced together from this app would be a dream. 10 bucks isο»Ώ a steal for this kind of note manipulation and idea generation. bravo to all involved. please give it the attention and it merits as a serious improvisational tool and creative multi-touch instrument.
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Very good
This app is really, really good. Even though it crashed my iPad the first time I opened it and even though I would have liked the ability for more user based audio manipulation on the remixes I'm still giving it five stars.
Nice, limited
Compared to the interactivity in Bjork's app there really isn't much here to get creative with. The remixes are cool, visuals are neat, but I was hoping the "remix" part of the app would be a bit more developed.
It is an app
I was deciding whether to get the album, download or app when I heard about this album. I decided on the app. Why? You get all the music us some videos for less than either other option. Plus the glass machine.
The music - interesting reworkings from the canon. I initially like the one most glass-like, but I am sure the others will grow on me.
The videos - are a nice addition. Not essential, and the interactivity bends them. They have a number of themes (lateral movement, moving blocks and starbursts) which runs with the music. They don't detract, add a little.
The glass machine - an interesting experiment. The iPad version (like with apps such as their oscilloscoop, while universal the iPad & iPhone versions are different) is great - you have 2 loop machine which can each have 2 loops to switch between, emulating the sudden changes in glass. The iPhone version has only 1 loop per machine. Both have organ, piano, synth. It is not on the complex level of Eno's best, but fun
What you don't get - the ability to pause, though if you close/reopen you get back to the same spot. No background playing. Limited to playing on particular devices. No liner notes.
But it is an app, after all.
(Would give 5 stars if you could pause & play in the background. But I don't want an update and have to download it all again!)
The music - interesting reworkings from the canon. I initially like the one most glass-like, but I am sure the others will grow on me.
The videos - are a nice addition. Not essential, and the interactivity bends them. They have a number of themes (lateral movement, moving blocks and starbursts) which runs with the music. They don't detract, add a little.
The glass machine - an interesting experiment. The iPad version (like with apps such as their oscilloscoop, while universal the iPad & iPhone versions are different) is great - you have 2 loop machine which can each have 2 loops to switch between, emulating the sudden changes in glass. The iPhone version has only 1 loop per machine. Both have organ, piano, synth. It is not on the complex level of Eno's best, but fun
What you don't get - the ability to pause, though if you close/reopen you get back to the same spot. No background playing. Limited to playing on particular devices. No liner notes.
But it is an app, after all.
(Would give 5 stars if you could pause & play in the background. But I don't want an update and have to download it all again!)
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Great use of a new art medium
The iPad, with its powerful processing and gorgeous display, is an ideal "canvas" for new art works. This app is a great start, even though the interactivity is rudimentary for the most part.
If any readers ever visit Second Life, you'll find that some of the visuals in this app (particularly the active grid of 3D cubes) bear an amazing similarity to some of my own 3D kinetic art work there. My SL name is Oberon Onmura. Look me up the next time you're there!
If any readers ever visit Second Life, you'll find that some of the visuals in this app (particularly the active grid of 3D cubes) bear an amazing similarity to some of my own 3D kinetic art work there. My SL name is Oberon Onmura. Look me up the next time you're there!
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Pointless rubbish
This app lets you distract your tiny mind with pointless interactive animations whitest listening to sub-Glass reworks of Glass recordings. What a total waste of time.
The first reviewer is senselessly gorgeous
Save for the fact that the reviewer wishes for more and more. I paid my Β£ 6.99 in good faith, and loved the remixes so much I purchased the album so I could listen to it on the go. The glass machine is cool, and I imagine myself as a svelt Glass in the early 70's nodding my head vecifirously to indicate a change in section. So the first reviewer should have held back and read reviews before purchasing. 'I want more', the ever yearning cry from the frustrated fan.
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Nah!
I am a fan of Philip Glass together with Steve Reich and other composers of modern classical music so when I saw that there was a new app celebrating the work of this genius I thought I'd fork out the 6.99 because it promised 'interactive versions' of tracks from his new collaborative album with Beck. With the tracks the only interactive aspect is that you can swirl the images around a bit. Not very impressive. The Glass Engine is okay but very limited in its scope and functionality. Way too simplistic for the rather steep price I paid.
Overall I feel a little cheated and would caution other potential buyers to wait for a more thorough and imaginative app as a celebration of this truly inspirational musical artist.
Overall I feel a little cheated and would caution other potential buyers to wait for a more thorough and imaginative app as a celebration of this truly inspirational musical artist.
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