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Musical New Media: Bjoerk's Biophilia App and Music in Extended Reality

Hardback

Main Details

Title Musical New Media: Bjoerk's Biophilia App and Music in Extended Reality
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Nicola Dibben
SeriesNew Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreMusic
Rock and Pop
ISBN/Barcode 9781501331572
ClassificationsDewey:780.28565
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 25 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publication Date 24 February 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

Recorded music creation and consumption underwent a huge shift in the first two decades of the twentieth century: from physical artifacts to digital; from fixed personal computers to mobile devices; from downloading and owning to streaming and access. This had a significant impact on the music 'assemblage' - the audio, performances, videos, films, books, games - that make up what we think of as 'music', and gave rise to new forms of musical new media.. Bjoerk's Biophilia, widely acclaimed as the first 'app album', is one response to this context. Drawing on her direct experience as part of the creative team who made Biophilia musicologist Nicola Dibben investigates how popular music practices intersect with digital technologies at their moment of emergence in two domains: music software applications ('apps') for touchscreen technologies of tablet computer and smartphone, and in extended reality. She shows the way these new media formats maintain musical traditions as much as they innovate, explores the future of the album as a musical artifact in the digital age, and identifies emerging new music forms and engagements which may come to define our digital musical futures.

Author Biography

Nicola Dibben is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield, UK, co-editor of the journal Empirical Musicology Review, and former co-ordinating editor of Popular Music. Her research addresses music, mind, and culture with a focus on the science and psychology of music and on popular music studies. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters, and is the author of Bjoerk (2009) and co-authored Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010). She collaborated with Bjoerk on the artist's multi-media app album, Biophilia (2011).