The OscilloScoop — a iOS app with an animation-based interface to make looping grooves. 

(thanks, Irene!)

The Music Genome Splicer →

I love this—Greg Sabo has made a delightful little application that tosses up random quintets of Pandora descriptives. He wrote it as sort of an Oblique Strategies for musicians, to foster exploration.

I cordially dislike Pandora, because I think their approach to music recommendation is limited and autistic. (Also, it’s not a “Music Genome Project” if you’re classifying music by phenotype, dammit.) So I appreciate the taking-the-piss nature of Greg’s program. Plus, it’s a fun party game to get your musically-knowledgeable friends to try to name a band that fits the set of descriptives.

Band Name: band name generator

If you’re so bereft of imagination that you need to buy an app to help you name your band, please spare the rest of us and break up now.