Biophilia: UPDATE

Björk’s new album, Biophilia, is a new innovative way to listen to music. She has taken the music experience and made it interactive and, at times, educational. For the iPad/iPhone, the album is interactive. You play games and some of the things you do in the game can alter the music. The prices are the same as if you were buying a song or album on iTunes. This is a great way to get people interested in an album and a good way to follow current trends.

Björk’s most recent application is for her song “Moon”. “Moon” is a music sequencer that was initially inspired by the similarities between the cycles of the moon and cycles in music. It has an “instrument-mode” where you can change the pitch of audio in the song.

Björk continues to push the boundaries of the music industry. This could help create an entire new trend and could eventually be the new big advancement in music. Not only has Björk created an application and studio album but her website is interactive and the album features custom-made instruments, and she has incorporated education into her music now.

We are certainly in a time where the best way to grow is to be as innovative as possible.

Björk and the Biophiliacs

Good morning, Biophiliacs!

Now I’m sure you’ve all gone to iTunes and downloaded the latest Björk single: “Cosmogony (Serban Ghenea Mix)”. Setting the mood with a vocal build and emotionally bending horns, Björk shows a new side of her upcoming album Biophilia. Melodically, this song warms your heart. It reminds you of laying the grass as a child and staring at the sky, pondering what is beyond the stars. Björk revives her childlike curiosity by pondering the history of the universe in the lyrics of “Cosmogony”.

The Biophilia [due in September] application itself will be free for purchase. The app is said to be more than a “half-galactic, half-fractal” malleable menu screen. Every song in the album is tied to a star. Currently, the only song and light able to be explored is Biophilia’s first single “Crystalline”. However, the full album will be out in September and will be $10.99, which is really the same price as any album and you get more for your money and learn a little something.

The “Crystalline” app allows you to manipulate a growing sphere of crystals down a hallway and by tilting the iPhone you are able to collect crystals from the wall. The sing itself is a beautiful, minimalistic composition with an intense ending. On top of that, being able to use it in an iPad/iPhone application form is the kind of innovation that we need today.

For our Biophiliacs stuck in the 20^th century, do not fear: the album will see a conventional release as well. To pour a little more maple on your waffle, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) has directed the music video for “Crystalline” which will be released on YouTube next week. However, we’re all waiting to be able to listen and play with Björk’s track “Virus”.

References:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/07/biophilia_bjork_releasing_the.php?page=2