Björk: Biophilia arrives and is universal. Here's the app's description:
Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, beginning with the first single Crystalline.
Björk has collaborated with artists, designers, scientists, instrument makers, writers and software developers to create an extraordinary multimedia exploration of the universe and its physical forces, processes and structures - of which music is a part. Each in-app experience is inspired by and explores the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic. You can use Biophilia to make and learn about music, to find out about natural phenomena, or to just enjoy Björk’s music.
Biophilia opens into a three-dimensional galaxy with a compass allowing navigation between the 3-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional track list. Take a closer look by tapping on stars within the constellations and you’ll see that each is an in-app purchase that gives access to the inspired combination of artifacts for each new Björk song: interactive art and games, music notation which can be used to sing along karaoke-style, abstract animations, lyrics, and essays that explore Björk’s inspirations for the track. These artifacts bring together conventional and alternative ways of representing and making music to create an environment for entertainment and learning. Biophilia challenges the way we think about music. Here, for the first time, is a music album that exploits the multimedia capabilities of mobile interactive technologies.
Biophilia was created by Björk in collaboration with interactive artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and Björk's longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris).
Features:
- Three-dimensional galactic interface with the song Cosmogony
- Access to new songs and apps immediately as they are released
- Music scores with karaoke playback
- Abstract song animation
- Lyrics
- Essay
8 comments:
the app - main app is free :)
the songs (modules) are not.
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you an me.
Because IOS has told the world that
Free = no value
There are less and less reasons to give away good stuff for free.
Thank you Apple (who's OSes are built on top of the open source and free BSD)
@Anonymous
What has that to do with the Bjork app?
Saw this it looks intersting. It is no suprize that she is chargeing for it as she would for a record it seems like there has been a big attempt to make the whole thing a upgraded experence using a lot of interesting colaborations in addition to the music.
It is nice to get the basic app as a "taste" of the whole project.
Hope there are some more posts about this one as it proceeds and we get a better idea of what it becomes in its totality.
@Garloo: So please explain us why they aren't honest and charge 5-10$ for the app right away but instead tell us it's free?
Why pretend, over and over and over, that a "free" app that ends up having IAP's in it is a big, crushing disappointment to you? IAP's have been around for quite some time, now. If you think a big-league artist like Bjork is going to give away the new album, the problem certainly isn't with her, or the app.
Much like iTunes in general, the point is to give you the option, through the app, to buy the songs a la carte. If there's 2-3 songs you like, buy those! At least you don't have to pay $10 for an album (app) that only has 4 songs you like. There is an option to buy thye whole shebang for $10, if you're so inclined. Her way, you have a choice. Your way, there is only one option; all or nothing.
...oh, and based on the one song that's included, I'm gonna go with "nothing"!
Pyewwwww!!!!
Ok, then you let them muck around with you with their in app rip-offs and I don't. No problem, everbody gets what he/she deserves :)
@Icepulse
Ha ha...I wasn't sure what to think after listening to 'Cosmogony' for the first time. It took me a few plays to acclimate to it.
'Crystalline' is definitely an easier listen.
I'm mainly looking forward to the audio album proper but I'm definitely curious as to what the multimedia elements will add to the entire concept.
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