Bjooks: Push, Turn, Move - Interface Design in Electronic Music - Book

Danish Bjørn’s designer’s roots show on every page of this 352 (full color) page hardback book printed on luxury feel 150g acid-free quality paper. So too does his obvious knowledge and love of his subject. Except for one, actually very helpful time-line section that traces the chronology of electro/mechanical instruments from the pipe organ to the iPad, the bulk of the book (speaking of which, it weighs in at several pounds) very much dances to its own analytic beat like a doctoral thesis on design. It has to be said most of the book’s points of analysis and scrutiny are not ones likely to have kept the average purveyor of ‘Jump’ or ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ on the tribute band circuit up at night, but they are nonetheless fascinating and painstaking researched.