EōN is a new relationship to "recorded" music as we have always known it by immersing the listener in an endless sound (and visual) experience, like an album whose duration would have no fixed limit.
EōN produces an infinite music, in constant evolution, abundant in variations, composed by electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, accompanied by a constant progression of organic visual elements.
Once the EōN app is activated, you will listen and watch a new unlimited music experience constantly unfold, designed to be absolutely unique for each listener, always different each time the app is launched.
You can enjoy a different journey everytime, listening as many times and as long as you want, the only limit being your device’s battery!
In addition, once downloaded, EōN is fully autonomous requiring no internet connection. Thus it is possible to launch the app anywhere and at any time.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE ABOUT EōN:
"-Eon- the name of an ancient Greek God associated with unlimited time and eternity.
I named this project EōN as it symbolizes exactly what it is: an infinite musical and visual creation, which offers to everyone a unique experience, which will never happen again: on each device and each activation of the application EōN, you will hear and see an ever-evolving orchestration of music and visuals. EōN is an endless organic work, never repetitive, that will live and grow indefinitely at your fingertip.
Like in life, every moment lived in EōN will never happen again.
Personally, I truly feel that EōN is probably one of my most exciting creative projects since Oxygene. I always wanted to create a specific music for each listener, able to evolve constantly in terms of rhythms, tones, tempo, melodies and textures. Here it is. EōN is conceived and composed as a different journey for everyone, with no end determined.
I had a clear idea of the organic, living visuals I wanted to accompany my music, and I was very lucky to spend some time in Tokyo at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL), where I discovered Alexis André and his singular visual world. Sony CSL with Alexis have conceived and developed an algorithm generating an endless flow of ever-evolving graphics, which, like the music, are infinite and never repeatitive.
The algorithm and audio engine that orchestrates the music of the EōN app have been engineered by Alexis Zbik & Vianney Apreleff from BLEASS after defining the rules of the system together. "
CREDITS
Conceived and composed by Jean-Michel Jarre
Digital Graphics by Alexis André of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL)
Music algorithms and audio engine powered by BLEASS
Produced by Aero Productions
Terms of use: http://jeanmicheljarre.com/eon/terms-of-use
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Mindblowingly great!
I've been a fan of JMJ's music since a friend introduced me to Oxygene back in the 1980s, so I was intrigued when I saw this pop up in the app store. I hit the buy button, thinking it would be a bit like one of the Brian Eno generative music apps, and it kind of is, but also isn't! I was initially a bit disappointed to find that there's no ability to interact with the music in EōN, by which I mean you can't edit any parameters or set any seed conditions with which to shape the sound. All you can do is hit a refresh button to create a new song. However, the music this thing generates is ASTONISHING. The variety of sounds and different styles of music it creates is jaw-dropping. Like, you'll be sitting there thinking "how the HECK are they DOING that?". I was wondering whether any cloud-bssed AI was involved, but no, the app works perfectly in airplane mode, so it's all being done offline. From punchy dance tracks to drifty ambient, to almost experimental pieces (I swear I had one in 5/4 time signature the other day!), it's all there. I fired this up yesterday and got a beautiful song based around a single female vocal sample, or what sounded very much like it...a single syllable that drifted around the stereo field and reshaped itself dynamically. Oh and on that note, if you'll excuse the pun, this app makes GREAT use of dynamic stereo - sounds will drift from left to right and back again in a way that really elevates the music in a way that I've never encountered in any of the many generative music apps I've got, including the Eno ones. It would be remiss of me not to mention the visuals too. They're stunning. Almost fractal in nature, they pulse and shift with what appears to be a flocking algorithm, and constantly change in colour and shape - and they're dramatically different depending on the song (I haven't yet worked out whether the visuals are random or are connected with the type of music that's being generated; I suspect the latter is true). There's no save button, which is frustrating when you get a really good song, but having watched the interview that JMJ gave at the tech conference where he launched Eōn, I understand that this was by design...he specifically chose not to have a save function, because he wanted the music that Eōn creates to be ephemeral, which fits with the overall ethos of the app which is that it creates a unique song every time you launch it. I totally get this - creating a fleeting piece of magic that leaves no trace other
Fresh every time
Like listening to a new Jarre album every time. Always unique
EoN
Bliss 🤙
Sublime
A true fusion of technology and creativity- would love it if ported to apple tv
Good but Annoying Bug
I really like the music and the app itself. Everything I hoped it would be. However there is a bug when pausing the app from the lock screen widget in that it just restarts a few seconds later. You have to unlock, go to the app and pause there.
Update : Issue appears to now be fixed.
cavaderous
world class artist & music
Autistic human
What an awesome app lovely music and visuals. Helps to keep me calm and relax .. Thank you very much Jean-Michel Jarre
Oh Yes.
I Love It Monsieur JMJ.
It’s about time these wee devices started doing their own thing 😄
Thanks algorithmic overlord, I love your tunes. Music & Images hypnotise me. Cheers 👍
Excellent app for putting on and listening to some awesome music
The thing about this app is every time you start it up you never know what you are going to hear... and when you are listening, you know no one else has heard what you are listing to before! What and awesome thing.
