Bjork’s “Biophilia” iOS App
New Series: Mesmerizing Interactive Music App Reviews #1
Disclaimer: This is merely an impassioned review of an app I know, love, and want to share, and is in no way an affiliate link to the said app.
As a relative latecomer to devices, gadgets, and apps — I only acquired my first iThing in 2016 at the age of 40 — I have nonetheless made up for lost time.
As a music-lover and a musician, as soon as I discovered the never-ending plethora of App Store gimmicks for my then-new iPad Air, I went down a rabbit-hole I am not quite sure I have emerged from yet.
What this means is that, if there’s a super-cool, super quirky, or fascinating music app, chances are, I will have it.
The first app of this series I will be reviewing is, in my opinion, one of the craftiest, most exciting ways to research, design, build the instruments, and compose an album I have ever encountered under the genre “concept album;” invented by, of course, Björk — our own elfin mad scientist of sound.
I have been asked by friends over the years things like: “how would you define, your relationship to music, and its relation to atoms, protons, electrons, the universe at large, and humanity?”
I know, I know: my friends ask weird-ass, brain-frying questions, bless them. They’re…
