Shaping Atmosphere with a Single Instrument

There’s something endlessly inspiring about the iOS music ecosystem. It’s a world where compact, beautifully crafted tools open the door to surprisingly deep sonic exploration. With just a single instrument and a handful of creative apps, you can shape entire atmospheres - layering textures, sculpting space, and weaving live improvisation into a rich, multidimensional soundscape.

Watching how these elements interact feels almost magical. It’s a reminder that modern mobile music isn’t just convenient, it’s genuinely expressive, professional, and full of artistic possibility.

Jonathan Block - "Any instrument sounds great through some iPad soundscape apps. In this video, I play an Aulos 590 Symphony alto recorder into an Audio-Technical AT2020 condenser microphone. I use some iPad AUv3 effects apps in AUM, including SpaceFields, Stellarvox, NoiseSpace and AltiSpace, Other Desert Cities and Velvet Machine heavily into this improvisation as well. And finally, there’s also Eventide’s Blackhole, Bleass Compressor and Quantovox’s Spatializer."