At last week’s Amsterdam Dance Event, one of the best keynote speeches came from Scott Snibbe, the digital artist who worked with Bjork on her recent Biophilia iOS app. He had some interesting things to say about albums as apps, too. “This isn’t an add-on to the audio album. The album was conceived as this fully interactive project, and this is the strongest expression of it,” said Snibbe, before suggesting that apps will bring back “the falling in love stage with the music” that characterised the days when vinyl albums were played on turntables at home while poring over artwork and liner notes. “An app can demand all of your senses and attention at once,” said Snibbe. “That’s something exciting for musicians. A lot of them lament the demise of the album experience due to digital distribution. But one thing about the app-album is it reclaims people’s attention for an entire album.”
Source: GuardianÂ
