Bjork’s new album recorded on iPad

Famous avant-garde artist, Icelandic singer Bjork has become the second major artist to announce the use of an Apple iPad tablet computer to record an album.

On Christmas Day 2010, the group Gorillaz, led by Damon Albarn, launched their free album The Fall, the first album by an international artist to be created entirely on an iPad.

Bjork has confirmed that her seventh album Biophilia was also created using the iPad. However, unlike Gorillaz, Björk describes the project as a “multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows,” and she plans to preview the material during a six-show, three-week residency this summer at the Campfield Market Hall in Manchester, England

The Manchester International Festival concerts will include “a bespoke digitally-controlled pipe organ; a 30 foot pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns– creating a unique bridge between the ancient and the modern; a bespoke gamelan-celeste hybrid; and a one-off extraordinary pin barrel harp.”

Although the release date has not been announced, Biophilia will most likely confirm Bjork’s reputation as an experimental, avant-garde artist.