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Bjork cancels Kickstarter campaign to put Biophilia app on Android and Windows
The singer Bjork has cancelled her Kickstarter campaign to crowd-fund her app/album Biophilia for Windows and Android after falling more than £350,000 short of her target.
In a letter to the project’s contributors, her team explained that "the costs were too gigantic and we were too optimistic".
The Icelandic singer refers to Biophilia as an "app box" - a 10-song album, with each song having a representation as a distinct music-making app.
The campaign aimed to raise £375,000 in 30 days to develop the acclaimed iPhone app for other operating systems.
After 10 days the campaign had raised just over £15,000.
"This is an odd one for me to ask of you, but it proved unbelievably complicated to reprogram Biophilia for Android and more, it will take eight programmers five months!!" Bjork said in a note on the Kickstarter page.
Bjork’s campaign was one of the highest profile on Kickstarter, a US based company founded in 2009 to use its website to raise money for artistic projects.
Kickstarter has funded an array of projects including indie films, stage shows, comics and video games.
Bjork’s campaign had an educational focus: she wanted to develop Biophilia for Android and Windows n order to get it onto the devices of more students, particularly those in the developing world.
The original app, launched in October 2011, offered interactive modules for each song on Björk's Biophilia album as well as games, animation and remixing technology.
When her Kickstarter pitch was launched, the pitch said: "The most interest has come from students from low-income households and schools with underfunded art budgets , and the only way to bring the project to those people is to have biophilia reprogrammed for Android and Windows 8."