Bjork Aims To Educate With New App Album

Icelandic singer Bjork says her new album - the world's first "app album" - will help educate as well as entertain.

Biophilia, released last week, features an app for each track which users can interact with.

Bjork said: "Every musician sees their music in a certain type of way... and the frustrated music teacher in me has sort of come out."

As well as giving users an insight into her world, the iPad version of her album allows them to interact in a range of ways, including playing games, viewing the scrolling score and even creating your own remix of the songs.

Based on a theme of nature, songs called Thunderbolt, Virus and Dark Matter, all feature on the album which can also be bought in the traditional linear way.

The singer started writing the album on an early touch screen in 2008 - before the first version of the iPad was even launched.

Bjork admitted: "I decided to really go all the way with this."

She said it has pushed her to be even more creative than her previous albums.

"Because I mapped out the structure, I broke out of old patterns and habits that I felt like I had stagnated in.

"I felt I could make the structures of the song a little more organic, not so square or linear."

Bjork said she will spend the next three years expanding the concept and see how "spontaneous" she can be with plans to add more songs to make it into a double album.