Recorded music creation and consumption underwent a huge shift in the first two decades of the twentieth century: from physical artifacts to digital; from fixed personal computers to mobile devices; from downloading and owning to streaming and access. This had a significant impact on the music 'assemblage the audio, performances, videos, films, books, games that make up what we think of as music, and gave rise to new forms of musical new media.. Björk's Biophilia, widely acclaimed as the first app album, is one response to this context. Drawing on her direct experience as part of the creative team who made Biophilia musicologist Nicola Dibben investigates how popular music practices intersect with digital technologies at their moment of emergence in two domains: music software applications (apps) for touchscreen technologies of tablet computer and smartphone, and in extended reality. She shows the way these new media formats maintain musical traditions as much as they innovate, explores the future of the album as a musical artifact in the digital age, and identifies emerging new music forms and engagements which may come to define our digital musical futures.
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A book exploring music and new media based around the first ever multimedia "app" album - and written by top Björk scholar and member of her creative team for the album.
1. Introduction
PART 1 The background
Interlude I Cosmogony
2. The Industry Context to Biophilia
Interlude II Crystalline
3. The Creative Context to Biophilia
Interlude III Dark Matter, Hollow
PART 2 Imagining and Making
Interlude IV Moon
4. The Songs
Interlude V Mutual Core
5. The Instruments
Interlude VI Sacrifice
6. The Apps
Interlude VII Solstice
PART 3 Consequences
Interlude VI Thunderbolt
7. Educating and entertaining
Interlude VII Virus
8. Conclusion Biophilia s Contribution
Nicola Dibben is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield, UK, co-editor of the journal Empirical Musicology Review, and former co-ordinating editor of Popular Music. Her research addresses music, mind, and culture with a focus on the science and psychology of music and on popular music studies. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of Björk (2009) and co-authored Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010). She collaborated with Björk on the artist's multi-media app album, Biophilia (2011).
