Bubble Harp app for iPhone and iPad
"Of the millions of apps out there, none quite capitalize on the sheer fun and beauty of interactivity the way that Scott Snibbe’s do.” --CoolHunting
**iTunes Top 10 App of the Year for Art and Music**
Bubble Harp draws bubbles around your fingertips, recording and replaying your movements while creating music. It’s a combination of drawing, animation, music, art, geometry, and gaming. You can record long movements of a single point, or stream many points out of your fingertips like ink. When you tap the screens edges, you can change from single points to streams of points, change graphic and sonic parameters, and post to Facebook. Multiple fingers and multiple people can touch the screen at once to create together. Bubble Harp was first released as a work of interactive art by Scott Sona Snibbe that was only available in galleries and museums. Now it’s available as an iPhone and iPad application that also makes music.
Rated #1 Music App and Apples Top Music App in many countries, since its release.
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Pros and cons of Bubble Harp app for iPhone and iPad
Bubble Harp app good for
Im one of the few people who can probably use this for a practical purpose. Voronoi diagrams are great for my 3D work and I can see using this with Blast Code explosions and Maya. Cool stuff. For practical reasons, it would be nice if there was an option to turn off points for faces.
Just wish there was more color to it, but then I guess it would take away from the spider web effect...
Can an app be art? Yes!! This app is so fun and beautiful and intriguing. Its amazing to figure out all the settings.
Hey everyone. Quit whining about sounds and controls and double tap at the bottom of your screen like it says. This is an amazing app. I made an awesome piece. Love listening to it
Bubble Harp 2.1 is fantastic and polished. Now I can save my creations to watch and listen to later. Its also easier to bring up the settings toolbar, with a single tap at the bottom of the screen. This app looks like considerable time and effort went into this work of music and art.
Bubble Harp is a beautiful new form of visual-musical instrument.... part new media art, part experimental music, and just plain fun. I could play with it for hours, and it is always different. Snibbes apps are always elegant and meditative, and I never tire of them.
The new version lets you save your musical creations, load, post to Facebook, and it is very easy to bring up the settings too -using a single tap at the bottom of the screen.
Some bad moments
This was a great little program when it was released. Now, however it is not being supported. The sound doesnt work at all under iOS 10. Dont spend money on it until the release notes state that it works again.
Was wonderful, now no sound on my iPad Pro since updating. Seems like last update was around 2012? Thats been a while. I think its time has passed unless the developer updates to 2016 iOS.
Something no one has mentioned is that this "Harp" was listed under the category of music. Come on. Joke is on me I guess.
I double tapped the bottom of the screen many times then reset the I-phone and no sound. Phone is 3GS.
When this app works, it seems like it might be fun. However, the double-tap thing at the bottom to set and adjust music, etc. only opens the menu some of the time, which is very frustrating. I cant predict when its going to work so I have stopped bothering to use it. Annoying!
No good. Locked up every time I tried to use it and had to shut down my iPhone and reboot. No music, no directions, no way to shut off existing "drawing". NOT even worth the $.99
