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Bjork’s Biophilia

I’ve spent the past week fascinated with the buzz surrounding the forthcoming album from Bjork, Biophilia. One very unique thing about this new album is the theme of science, nature, technology, and music that surround each song.

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I've spent the past week fascinated withthebuzz surrounding the forthcoming album from Bjork, Biophilia.

One very unique thing about this new album is the theme of science, nature, technology, and music that surround each song. It's also being released via a series of iPad/iPhone apps, the first of which opens with a narration by an illustrious voice of natural history, David Attenborough:


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Bjork's pulled out all the stops for this one, from designing the apps for each song to creating unique musical instruments for scientific-themed live shows to releasing her first music video for the album directed by Micheal Gondry.

Bjork states on her website, "Another way this project's been different is that it started with a lot of research and a lot of reading books and a lot of figuring out where nature and music meet, and structures in nature and structures in music where they are similar, and then going in and writing the songs."

I'll be following each song and its accompanying app as it is released in advance of the album's full release on September 27, but this weekend will definitely be spent playing around with the album's apps.

About Princess Ojiaku

Hey there! I'm a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the Neuroscience and Public Policy program. I'm also a musician who played in two bands in North Carolina, one called Pink Flag and another called Deals. My personal passions are science, music, and cycling as transportation.

I got into science as a kid while tagging along and watching my mom do experiments in her lab. I found that while I loved science, I didn't want to be alone in an ivory tower, crunching data that few others would understand. I also noticed that many other people thought science was this scary and incomprehensible entity of obscurity. When I realized that there were people working to make science fun and accessible to everyone, I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do. The two things I find the most immensely interesting and continually impressing are music and neuroscience, so these are the topics that I'll focus on in my blog. Philosophy and politics are my second loves, so I might pop in an occasional post on these topics as well. Ultimately I am here to share things that give me wonder. I hope that reading Science with Moxie gives you a bit of that wonder too.

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