Björk: Biophilia 4+
Björk
Designed for iPad
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- $19.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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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 are available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences: Crystalline, Virus, Moon, Thunderbolt, Sacrifice, Mutual Core, Hollow, Solstice, and Dark Matter.
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 developed by Björk in collaboration with interactive artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and Björk's longtime design collaborators M/M Paris. The individual apps were created by Luc Barthelet, Drew Berry, Kodama Studios, Stephen Malinowski, Scott Snibbe Studio, John Simon Jr., Touch Press, and Max Weisel.
Features:
• Three-dimensional galactic interface with the song Cosmogony
• Nine song apps available as in-app purchases
• Music scores with karaoke playback
• Abstract song animation
• Lyrics
• Essays
• MIDI out to drive instruments
What’s New
Version 1.6
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
The Biophilia App Suite is now completely refactored for the latest iPad and iPhone iOS and retina display
Ratings and Reviews
Biophiliaphilia
Fantaaaaaaaaaaaaastic. Gorgeous to explore the intricacies of the music with the score (despite silly midi tones in score playing), apps for each song are completely delightful, intriguing - and you are in danger of learning something from many of them, too. Full of wonderful, beautiful, stark, dreamy, Bjork-ish aesthetics. WELL worth the very reasonable price.. don't bother buying one, you will only want to buy them all; and so you should.
Mindblowing
Utterly amazing piece of interactive audio visual artistry. Such value too - for less than the cost of a full album. This is the new way to consume music. Thank you bjork for proving yet again your mastery of sound, art and imagination. Sheer brilliance!
Masterful
Björk is a comet blazing across the heavens while her contemporaries pander to the mainstream. I believe this was the first ever album released as an app. The instrumentation developed to democratise music and this artistic experience is mind blowing. Bjork’s work will be studied by future generations as masterpieces.
App Privacy
The developer, Björk, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
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Information
- Seller
- Second Wind Ltd Apps
- Size
- 1.2 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2011 One Little Indian, Ltd. and Well Hart, Ltd.
- Price
- $19.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Crystalline $2.99
- Virus $2.99
- Moon $2.99
- All Song Apps $14.99
- Thunderbolt $2.99
- Hollow $2.99
- Mutual Core $2.99
- Dark Matter $2.99
- Sacrifice $2.99
- Solstice $2.99