“We were contacted by Thom Yorke and the artist Stanley Donwood with the idea of building an app that is an immersive, ever-changing world,” says artist and founder of Universal Everything, Matt Pyke, of collaborating on Radiohead’s brand new app, PolyFauna. To create the dreamlike, audio-visual terrain that is showcased in this bespoke edit, Radiohead and the band’s producer Nigel Godrich revisited the studio sessions from 2011 album The King of Limbs, making extended, atmospheric, fragmented layers of sound out of the scattered beats and ambient noise of standout track, “Bloom”. Meanwhile Donwood—who has created all of the band’s cover art including The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A since 1995—devised the way it would look: “We worked together over nine months between their studio in Oxford and ours in Sheffield,” explains Pyke, “transforming Stanley’s analog pen-and-ink sketchbooks into code-based life-forms.” The resulting app is set to a lunar calendar, and allows the user to explore a boundless world of lines and shapes that blend the primitive graphics of early computer experiments with the poetic potential of the iPad generation. “Beyond a linear music video, this was about creating our own ecosystem, with seasons, weather and fragments of sound,” says the digital creative. “Radiohead are so open to challenging musical conventions, both in composition and structure, and in how music is experienced and delivered. Each user goes on a unique journey through environment and music, every day they use it.”