Björk continues to unveil Biophilia with the release of the video for "Moon," the latest single off the forthcoming album, due out October 11. The video was directed, produced, and art directed by Björk, Inez and Vinoodh, M/M Paris, and James Merry. Watch the video here. "Moon” is available now as a single and as a special feature of the Biophilia App. Both are available exclusively at iTunes and the App Store.
Björk continues to unveil Biophilia with the release of the video for "Moon," the latest single off the forthcoming album, due out October 11 from One Little Indian/Nonesuch Records. The video was directed, produced, and art directed by Björk, Inez and Vinoodh, M/M Paris, and James Merry. Watch the video below.
"With the overwhelming similarity of many of today's songstresses and pop stars," says the Huffington Post, "some comfort can be found in the fact that Björk has maintained her eccentricity. The Icelandic singer has remained steadfast in artistic exploration, not only in her music but also in her music videos."
"Moon” is available now as a single and as a special feature of the Biophilia App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, available through In-App Purchase. Both are available exclusively at iTunes and the App Store. The Biophilia album may be pre-ordered on CD and vinyl in North America via the Nonesuch Store now, with high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album included and available to download starting on release day. Available now in the Nonesuch Store is The Crystalline Series of four releases featuring variations on music from Biophilia. To order outside the US and Canada, go to shop.bjork.com.
Björk’s "Moon" app is a song and music sequencer inspired by similarities between cycles in music and cycles of the moon and tides. It also contains an animation, a scrolling music notation and an essay exploring Björk’s ideas about cycles in music and nature.
The app opens with a musical sequencer arranged as pearls strung out like ribs projecting from a central spine. Each pearl sounds in sequence and can play any note from the song’s pitch collection. Fluid in the spine rises and falls with the moon above and tides below, and pearls play when fluid spills out from the spine and washes over them. In song mode the phase of the moon changes with the song structure. In instrument-mode drag your finger across the pearls to change their phase and you change their corresponding pitch. Tap on the moon to change its phase, the amount of fluid it pulls up through the spine, and the number of pearls activated by the fluid.
Watch the video here, via Bjork's YouTube channel:
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