We’re really pleased to see some recent and very kind mentions of Enhanced Editions and our new Nick Cave / Bunny Munro app in the press – including some of our favourite blogs:
Wired: Hear Nick Cave Read The Death of Bunny Munro
The multiformat release turns the tables on the traditional roles of reader and writer: In the audiovisual versions, Cave drives your emotions where he wants them to go. Readers get inside his head rather than projecting their own ideas on the work.
The Times: Nick Cave new novel goes on the app store
Nick Cave, one-time master of the murder ballad and all-round singing sinner, has just released an audiobook of his new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, via Apple’s app store.
Why the app store? Well, because this is an audiobook unlike any other. Not only does it feature Cave’s lugubrious tones reading his own prose, but it comes with incidental music composed by the great man, and a complete readable copy of the e-book. All for £14.99.
The sound mix on the audiobook is also a first. They call it a “groundbreaking 3D audio spatial mix”, but all you need to know is that it’s designed especially for headphones, and when the action is set in an enclosed space, it sounds like it. When it moves outside, you can tell.
“The idea of creating a book which can be experienced in different ways is exciting for me. (This is) a groundbreaking audio journey which allows the listener to experience the book in a hitherto unprecedented third dimension,” said Cave, sounding cheerful.
NME: Nick Cave releases soundtrack for novel ‘The Death Of Bunny Munro’
Fans can hear the soundtrack on the audio version of the book, which is available to buy from the iPhone App Store now. As well as the audiobook featuring the soundtrack, the app includes an enhanced e-book and videos of Cave reading ‘The Death Of Bunny Munro’.
“We’ve not heard anything like this before – the result sits somewhere between a film soundtrack, a radio play and an hallucination.”
Pitchfork: Nick Cave’s New Novel Bunny Munro Gets Its Own iPhone App, Tour
The iPhone app for the book, available now, features not only the book itself in text form but also the audiobook (read by Cave and featuring music by Cave and Bad Seed Warren Ellis) and video clips of Cave reading from the book. It’ll run you $24.99. The iTunes Store’s warning of “Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes” is no joke.
Cult of Mac: Guess What Singer Nick Cave Used To Write His Latest Novel?
Singer Nick Cave has a new novel out: The Death of Bunny Munro, a light, cheery, life-affirming tale of the last days of a the eponymous traveling salesman. Just kidding — it’s dark. It’s also available as an audio book and an iPhone application. But the best part is, guess what he used to write the first chapter? Yeah, an iPhone! No shit, Cave wrote the first chapter on an iPhone, according to his publishing company.
Clash Music: Nick Cave Novel iPhone App
Working with long term cohort Warren Ellis the Australian musician has crafted a special soundtrack to compliment the narrative. In addition to this, Nick Cave has now announced details of a special iPhone application. In addition to receiving the audiobook and soundtrack those who download the new app will receive an enhanced e-book and videos of Cave reading The Death Of Bunny Munro.
TwentyFourBit: Nick Cave Unveils Bunny Munro Soundtrack
“The fact that the reader can choose his or her own experience is interesting because the true meaning of a book lies in the reader’s own interpretation and the circumstances of that interpretation,” Cave said of the multimedia Bunny Munro experience.
