Musyc from FingerLab, puts music on a canvas. It’s fun, and it’s free (for starters anyway), if you already have an iOS device. You can use it to make little sonic doodles to share with your friends, or just to amuse yourself. You start with an empty grid, then add lines and shapes to generate sounds,…
Their day in the sun has passed, but Guitar Hero and Rock Band, those console games for playing plastic instruments together in the living room, left a legacy: a market for casual music gamers. Mobile and web developers have tapped into that market with games that creatively integrate music as a central component to the…
As some of us enjoyed a long weekend, hardware hackers and software savants were building some of the future of music at Spotify’s worldwide headquarters for Music Hack Day Stockholm. These hardy souls turned out an impressive number of “hacks,” which are sort of like apps, except they were built over the course of a single…
By now, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea, if not the term, “freemium.” Spotify, with its free and premium versions, brought the concept to music in a way that took its competition by storm. An artist app for the LA rock outfit Warren Charles takes a new approach to the freemium concept by offering…
Whenever a music app cracks the top 10 in the (lowercase) app stores, we pay attention. While we look at music apps all day, these sudden rushes of popularity are a nice reminder that non-music-nerds get down with this stuff too. SongPop, a ridiculously engaging music quiz game for iOS, Android, and Facebook, is becoming…
We’re all for apps that let beginners and seasoned geeks alike make music in a fun, easy, engaging way, but with the potential for sonically interesting results. We like to call them apps for making music without really trying. eDrops (free-$2, for iPhone and iPad), the latest entry in this field, takes its musical inspiration from the…
As you’ve probably noticed, there have been a few changes around here. Evolver.fm relaunched with a new look designed to make finding the best music apps easier than ever, which also means hosting the first curated database of handpicked music apps, in addition to our usual coverage. One offshoot of this: The apps in our This…
Google made more waves today, telling the world that its Google+ social network will now include games — just like its rival Facebook, where users already while away billions of hours tending vegetables, wacking enemies and making videogame characters react to songs. Google told its staffers in no uncertain terms that their year-end bonuses would depend on how well they…
