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Bjork’s collaborators on working with Bjork

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“She has this ability to sort of inject her ideas into your mind with a few simple words. ”

“Whenever I’m talking to her, she really knows what she’s talking about and has done a bunch of research. I think that’s why she is so good at explaining her ideas for different concepts.”

– (both above quotes) Max Weisel, born 1991, app developer for Biophilia live shows, from The Creators Project, an online publication, http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/meet-max-weisel-the-20-year-old-behind-björks-interactive-live-set-up, accessed 3/5/12
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“She has such a clear vision for what she wants creatively, and such a gentle way of expressing her own ideas, or when some thing should change.”
– Scott Snibbe, app developer for Biophilia, from The Vine, an online publication, http://www.thevine.com.au/music/interviews/bjork-%27app%27-album-creator%2C-scott-snibbe-_-interview20110819.aspx, accessed 3/5/12

snippet of virus animation from biophilia app

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Bjork: Show Us the Future
(I just ordered this back issue on 3/5/12.) Bjork guest edited the 200th issue of Dazed and Confused magazine (August 2011), featuring a lot of her collaborators across the disciplines:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10815/1/dazed-confused-august-issue-bjork-guest-edit 

MM Paris: Biophilia and other works

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Wonderful intro screens on Bjork’s new site. Site design by MM Paris. Love the galactic type.

I’ve heard two versions of her Biophilia intro with either Bjork or David Attenborough narrating the same text. It sounds like a manifesto and it seeks to unite nature, music and technology. Nancy, since you have an iPhone, maybe you could look at this app in total? Might be worth the investment at $13, available here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bjork-biophilia/id434122935?mt=8
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Tree of Signs, MM/Paris collaboration with sculptor Gabríela Friðriksdóttir.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buddah/2509630239/sizes/z/in/photostream/
5 meter tall bronze sculpture using the font created for Bjork’s album Medulla, and erected in a yet to be developed swath of land in Iceland.

Scott Snibbe

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www.snibbe.com
An interdisciplinarian! Interactive designer for Bjork’s Biophilia app. A computer scientist and fine artist by training.
Biophilia pics from www.snibbe.com:

EDUCATION:
1992-1994 M.Sc., Computer Science, Brown University.
1987-1991 Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Brown University, Magna Cum Laude.
1987-1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brown University, Magna Cum Laude.
1989-1992 Experimental Animation, Rhode Island School of Design.
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Article on his work on Bjork’s app Biophilia in The VIne, an Australian online magazine. Author Jason Treuen, Aug 19, 2011, Accessed 3/4/12 by Zvez
http://www.thevine.com.au/music/interviews/bjork-%27app%27-album-creator%2C-scott-snibbe-_-interview20110819.aspx

“While other artists have used apps to spruik their album, Bjork’s app is her album. You don’t just play the music, you play with the music. A mother app houses ten unique designed apps, which each contain a new song, music score and an interactive ‘game’ that lets you manipulate the track.”

Scott Snibbe is Biophilia’s executive producer…his company created the mother app and three song apps – ‘Virus’, ‘Thunderbolt’ and ‘Cosmogony’

Bjork worked with Apple…this is a very Apple-heavy project, using iPads in live performance, etc.

Virus’ is the latest song/app to be released. What can you tell us about it?

SS: “It’s as if you can touch this microscopic world. There’s a series of cells and a virus that attacks the mother cell in the centre. It’s kind of a game – you can fling the virus cells away, but if you do manage to do that, the song never progresses. So you have to lose the game to hear Bjork’s song. It’s really in line with the message of the song, which is the virus loves the cell so much, that she destroys him.”

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“I also think the economics of the music industry are a big deal. Sales of recorded music have collapsed, so apps are a way of generating revenue if you have one that’s popular enough. And there’s probably a sweet spot. Biophilia is definitely a concept album kind of method – really big and expensive and time-consuming. But if you look at some of the other apps I’ve made, you can make something quite small that’s also quite popular. I think there’s a way for musicians to partner with interactive artists.”

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Snibbe talks about his work for Bjork in this clip: http://vimeo.com/29256409

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Motion Phone, an interactive animation, “a new form of communication”: