Deluxe generative edition of Brian Eno's acclaimed 2017 ambient album, Reflection. "REFLECTION is the most recent of my Ambient experiments and represents the most sophisticated of them so far. My original intention with Ambient music was to make endless music, music that would be there as long as you wanted it to be. I wanted also that this music would unfold differently all the time - ‘like sitting by a river’: it’s always the same river, but it’s always changing. But recordings - whether vinyl, cassette or CD - are limited in length, and replay identically each time you listen to them. So in the past I was limited to making the systems which make the music, but then recording 30 minutes or an hour and releasing that. 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.” - Brian Eno Minimum requirements: iPad 3 iPhone 5 iPad mini 2 AppleTV (4th generation)
Great song but app needs fixing
I experience an issue with the app when listening is interrupted by any notification then it pauses automatically but does not start where it left off upon playing, forcing me to restart the song each time I get a notification, causing the app to lose its purpose in playing an ongoing iterative track. This is disappointing since everything else about it is great.
Beautiful
Reflection is beautiful and has given me years of enjoyment. Now I wish very much that the developers would return to it and adapt it to Spatial Audio.
App no longer appears on Apple TV Home Screen
I can still open the app from the App Store on Apple TV but the icon is gone from my Apple TV home page. Why?
Almost amazing.
I want to love this but there’s a super shrill (12,000+hz tone- like someone standing next to you screaming Eeeeeeeeeeee) that has been introduced into the generative mix. It is ear splitting and so painful and really destroys the joy of what could be. I’m hoping it’s something that’s just part of summer, if it’s sticking around in the fall, I guess it’s time to delete this. Really sad.
The falling asleep app I’ve settled on
I enjoy falling asleep to white noise, music, etc., And I have tried a lot of apps with good success on quite a few. I balked at the price for this one at first, but it has become the one that never gets old for me. I really hope that they Will make it available as an Apple Watch app so I can use it even when my phone isn’t nearby.
Season Choices?
It’s a fantastic ambient music composition, and ranks among Eno’s best ambient work. But for the price, at the very least we should be able to choose between the seasons. I got it recently and therefore have “Autumn”. I would very much like to hear or see the differences in the other seasons, but they appear to be previous versions, no longer available in the app. Would the developer consider allowing the old seasons to still be chosen within the app? (If/when that happens, I’ll update to five stars!)
Wonderful, relaxing, hypnotic and immersive
I never buy apps, but have enjoyed Brian Eno for years from Music for Airports, Discreet Music and more recent work. The app does not loop but explores similar sounds and themes in a relaxing and gentle way. I use this almost daily for meditation listening on bose headphones and find it the perfect way to escape and recharge. From the number of times (hours) listened it’s cost me less than a penny or two. My only regret is that it won’t play over my Sonos set, though the intimacy of the experience would be diminished.
Maintenance update. Improved performance on new devices. Runs full screen on M1 Macs.
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