This is the official thread for Bjork's new album-multimedia project Biophilla. Due to it's complex nature I decided to try and compile the most relevant info about it here.
Release date: 10/26/2011
Track list:
01. Virus
02. Cosmogony
03. Dark Matter
04. Thunderbolt
05. Moon
06. Crystalline
07. Hollow
08. Sacrifice
09. Mutual Core
10. Solstice
Tour dates:
06-30 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-03 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-07 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-10 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-13 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-16 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
The New York Times: Far Beyond the Play Button
Links:
http://www.bjork.com - Offical website
Biophilia wikipedia page
Björk's Biophilia - The Guardian and Observer
Stereogum Q&A: Björk Talks Biophilia
Björk plans three-year educational tour for Biophilia project - The Guardian and Observer
Bjork Unveils Multimedia 'Biophilia' Project - Rolling Stone
Far Beyond the Play Button - The New York Times
Sparks fly at Björk's new show Biophilia - NEWSCIENTIST
Björk: Biophilia review - The Guardian and Observer
Bjork show Biophilia opens Manchester International Festival - The National
Björk: 'Manchester is the prototype' - The Guardian and Observer
Dazed & Confused August Issue: Björk Guest-Edit - Dazed & Confused
Popcast: Deciphering New Projects by Bjork and Brian Eno - The New York
Björk Music 6 interview - BBC
Misc:
Gameleste Gamelan Celeste hybrid heard in Crystalline
Gameleste demonstration
Tesla coil synth rad Tesla coil synth heard in Thunderbolt
Solar System iPad App
Björk Biophilia - First reactions
Cosmogony app preview
Release date: 10/26/2011
Track list:
01. Virus
02. Cosmogony
03. Dark Matter
04. Thunderbolt
05. Moon
06. Crystalline
07. Hollow
08. Sacrifice
09. Mutual Core
10. Solstice
Tour dates:
06-30 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-03 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-07 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-10 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-13 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
07-16 Manchester, England - Campfield Market Hall
Stereogum Q&A: Björk Talks BiophiliaStereogum said:The Biophilia project consists of five parts: The album, the Apps, the live shows, a 90-minute Biophilia documentary (background, process, etc.), and her new website. The concept, or at least part of it:
Björk has collaborated with app developers, scientists, writers, inventors, musicians and instrument makers to create a unique multi-media exploration of the universe and its physical forces particularly those where music, nature and technology meet. The project is inspired by and explores these relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic.
The New York Times said:The songs on Biophilia will also be released as apps one for each song, to be sold as modules in a larger app for the entire album for the iPad and iPhone. (The developers have not yet decided whether to reprogram the apps for Android devices.) Along with animated graphics, some of which were shown on overhead video screens during the concert, the apps hold not only detailed analysis of the songs including both conventional and newly devised music notation but also gamelike excursions through the music, visions of scientific phenomena and the potential to be used as musical instruments themselves. A listener can hear a song, see its structure, play along or completely disassemble some songs and turn their components into something new.
The New York Times: Far Beyond the Play Button
Links:
http://www.bjork.com - Offical website
Biophilia wikipedia page
Björk's Biophilia - The Guardian and Observer
Stereogum Q&A: Björk Talks Biophilia
Björk plans three-year educational tour for Biophilia project - The Guardian and Observer
Bjork Unveils Multimedia 'Biophilia' Project - Rolling Stone
Far Beyond the Play Button - The New York Times
Sparks fly at Björk's new show Biophilia - NEWSCIENTIST
Björk: Biophilia review - The Guardian and Observer
Bjork show Biophilia opens Manchester International Festival - The National
Björk: 'Manchester is the prototype' - The Guardian and Observer
Dazed & Confused August Issue: Björk Guest-Edit - Dazed & Confused
Popcast: Deciphering New Projects by Bjork and Brian Eno - The New York
Björk Music 6 interview - BBC
Misc:
Gameleste Gamelan Celeste hybrid heard in Crystalline
Gameleste demonstration
Tesla coil synth rad Tesla coil synth heard in Thunderbolt
Solar System iPad App
Björk Biophilia - First reactions
Cosmogony app preview