{"id":4058,"date":"2014-02-12T06:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/12\/radiohead-launch-their-own-polyfauna-app-for-ios-and-android\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T06:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:37:01","slug":"radiohead-launch-their-own-polyfauna-app-for-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/12\/radiohead-launch-their-own-polyfauna-app-for-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead launch their own PolyFauna app for iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/08\/Thom_Yorke.jpg\/170px-Thom_Yorke.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"169\" height=\"253\" \/><br \/>Radiohead have become the latest band to launch their own smartphone and tablet app, with the release of PolyFauna for Android, iPhone and iPad. The free app is a collaboration with design agency Universal Everything, based on imagery and sounds from the song Bloom, from the band\u2019s The King of Limbs album. In a blog post announcing its release, Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke described the app as an \u201cexperimental collaboration\u201d that \u201ccomes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious\u201d.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The app gets fans to explore an \u201cevolving world\u201d by moving around and following a red dot on-screen. It\u2019s eerie, rather beautiful, and occasionally makes you feel a bit seasick \u2013 pretty suitable for the music it\u2019s based on, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>PolyFauna is reminiscent of some of the elements of Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s Biophilia app, whose interactive visualisations and mini-games took their cues from the biological themes in her album of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Other musicians to have recently released official apps include Tinie Tempah, whose Rap Demonstration app lets fans lip-sync to his new album using the star\u2019s (virtual) mouth, and Lady Gaga, whose ARTPOP app encouraged fans to create and share animated GIFs with slogans.<\/p>\n<p>Yorke and musician\/producer Nigel Godrich \u2013 credited as a collaborator on PolyFauna \u2013 made headlines in 2013 with their strong criticism of streaming music service Spotify, with Yorke memorably describing it as \u201cthe last desperate fart of a dying corpse\u201d in October.<\/p>\n<p>However, Yorke and Radiohead have a track record of experimenting with new technology to deliver their music to fans, from Radiohead\u2019s decision to sell their In Rainbows album direct to fans for whatever price they chose, to Yorke and Godrich\u2019s Atoms for Peace working with startup Soundhalo to sell live recordings of live concerts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiohead have become the latest band to launch their own smartphone and tablet app, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}