I was settling down to write the page for Sexercise when Alex over at Stramash Consulting tweeted about a new music app called weepr.
It’s kind of like sitting in a Japanese dentist’s waiting room on ‘shrooms – not that I’ve actually experienced that – but – I’m thinking….
It’s a lot of fun to play with and the interface is really simple and intuitive; sure there’s a hundred things that aren’t right with it and certain simple features that would make it a hell of lot easier to use – but who cares – it’s free and puts making music into everybody’s hands and I’m all for that. As Alex says it need’s an audio export function – you can hack your sound card if you want to invest the time – but I suspect Weepr know what they are doing. The easiest way to demonstrate what you have created is to publish their widget – and in doing so you (in this case – me) promote the Weepr brand – cunning.
I imagine they’ll have a premium release somewhere down the line which they’ll market to those who were curious enough to hand over their email to play with the free version. I seriously doubt that they’re going to tempt musicians away from the tools they’re already using, but, if they can make it easy for "non-musicians" to enjoy creating with it – and remember – there are a hell of lot more non-musicians than there are musicians – maybe they can create a new market and encourage more people to play with music – and wouldn’t that be cool!
