Make Some Noise!
We have trawled to find you some of the best (and unusual) music making
apps available - there should be something for everyone here!
Literature
App-tastic!
There are a variety of apps available on the
marketplace to help you with poetry, story
writing, spelling, grammar. Here are just a few!:
Poetry Creator
FREE – iPad, iPhone
Garageband
Musyc
FREE – iPad, iPhone
‘GarageBand turns your
iPad, iPhone and iPod
touch into a collection
of Touch Instruments
and a fully featured
e music anywhere you
recording studio — so you can mak
a piano, organ, guitar
go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play
their counterparts, but
and drums. They sound and play like
on a real instrument.
let you do things you could never do
you sound like a pro —
Enjoy Smart Instruments that make
re. Plug an electric
even if you’ve never played a note befo
touch and play through
guitar into your iPad, iPhone or iPod
’
classic amps and stompbox effects.
‘Discover the new music
application by Fingerlab,
winner
of the Apple Design Aw
ard 2012
for DM1 - The Drum Ma
chine.
Musyc is a fun and innov
ative music application
where
touch turns into music.
No use of piano keyboa
rd or
partitions, draw shapes
and listen to your piece
of music
while viewing sounds bo
uncing on the screen. En
joy the
64 instruments (organiz
ed into 16 groups) exclus
ively
created and produced at
Fingerlab music studio
as well
as all the exciting and ne
w physical and music too
ls
provided in Musyc.’
Figure
Theatre
Cinema
War Horse
The Hobbit: The Desolation
of Smaug
www.warhorseonstage.com
War Horse, based on the beloved
novel by Michael Morpurgo,
is a powerfully moving and
imaginative drama, filled with
stirring music and magnificent
artistry. South Africa’s Handspring
Puppet Company brings
breathing, galloping, full-scale
horses to life on the stage – their
flanks, hides and sinews built
of steel, leather and aircraft
cables. Experience the emotional
journey that charges through the
battlefields of history straight
to hearts of audiences around
the world. Based on a novel by
Michael Morpurgo, adapted by
Nick Stafford, and in association
with Handspring Puppet
Company.
View the trailer here.
10 | IGNIS
Ever wondered what it would be like to mash-up a
Shakespeare poem with a Hip Hop Song? Verses is
a new iPhone and iPad app that puts a fresh spin
on a cherished classic: refrigerator magnet poetry.
We built this app to set your creativity ablaze with
Verses’s limitless word mixing possibilities that
allow you to become a kind of dictionary DJ. After
creating a poem out of your own personal mix of
dictionaries, you can send your creation to friends
via email or publish it in your Facebook photo
album!
Free – iPad, iPhone
www.thehobbit.com
‘The second in a trilogy of films
adapting the enduringly popular
masterpiece ‘The Hobbit’, by
J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug’ continues
the adventure of the title
character Bilbo Baggins (Martin
Freeman) as he journeys with the
Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and
thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin
Oakenshield (Richard Armitage)
on an epic quest to reclaim the
lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor.’
Coming to theatres December
13th 2013, view the trailer here.
£0.69 – iPad, iPhone
‘Truly designed
for mobile user
on the go, Figure
gives you drums,
bass and lead
synth, controlled
by an incredibly
easy to use
touch interface that gets
you sounding
great literally in seconds.
Slide your finger
across the play pad and
hear your bass line
play. Tweak the Rhythm,
Range and Scale
Step wheels to get the res
ult you’re after.
Programming drumbea
ts is just as easy. Set
the rhythm and play the
drums with your
fingers. You won’t want
to stop. You won’t
believe how amazing yo
u and your phone
can sound.
If you are new to music
making, getting
started making great sou
nding tracks has
never been this easy —
and sounded so
great! If you are a season
ed musician –
music creation has neve
r been this fun!’
Creative Writing
Challenge!
You could be in with a chance of winning ‘Orientation:
The School for Gifted Potentials’ by Allis Wade! All
you need to do is send us some of your very own
writing. Send us a short story, no more than 500
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