Björk: Biophilia iPad app

Bjork’s Biophilia iPad app and its first in-app release, Crystalline, are STUNNING.  Seriously, words cannot really do it justice.  You play a game where you collect crystals in certain sequences to unlock different arrangements and elements of the song, which you can then arrange in real-time while playing the game by choosing different tunnel.  I’m addicted, and Bjork is giving me something I’m willing to spend money on.

Stop whining, music industry and get creative!


See also this post about location aware music.

Minimalistic

see this one too

Music Video Break

 

Friday Music Video Break

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 Music Video Break

Audio Flowers: visualising the sound of music

Last Fm tries to visualize the character of a song by using the three categories harmony, rhythm and timbre. The resultis a flower representing the songs structure for each category.

Example:

Kool & the Gang - Fresh
As you might expect from a classic disco song, Kool & the Gang's hit Fresh doesn't have much rhythm variety going on: the red rhythm petal is quite slim. This is not to say they don't groove, it's just the rhythm pattern does not change much over the course of the piece. There is some melodic and harmonic variety going on on small time scales – the green harmony petal is quite thick close to the origin. Towards the tip the green petal goes very thin though, which indicates that the general tonality does not change much over the whole piece – no cheesy key changes there.

Cold Mailman

Cold mailman - Time is of the essence from André Chocron on Vimeo.

more from Andreas Nicholas Fischer: Reflection II

Reflection II from Studio Datdatdat on Vimeo.

Location-Aware Music

The National Mall by BLUEBRAIN. The First Location-Aware Album from BLUEBRAIN on Vimeo.

The National Mall' is the first ever location-aware album, created by music duo BLUEBRAIN. Available as an app for the iPhone, the music changes and evolves based on the listeners chosen path within the National Mall park in Washington DC. It is the first in a series of site specific compositions the duo plans to release. For more information, visit bluebra.in

Gill Scott-Heron

Remember a great musician:


Message To The Messengers - Gil Scott-Heron from TSI TOL on Vimeo.

Colormusic -Yes!

Colourmusic - Yes! from memphis industries on Vimeo.

Jojo Mayer at Dachkantine