# album (music)

collection of audio and structure in a boundary

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: album

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [audio](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-audio.auditory), [structure](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-structure.arrangement), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [collection](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collection.group)

**Through:** audio and structure are grouped together within a boundary

**Novel properties:**
- cohesive artistic unit
- organized sequence of audio

## Examples
- The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967) unified songs, cover art, and sequencing into a single artistic statement. *(music)*
- The Linux kernel version 5.10, released in 2021, bundled patches, drivers, and documentation into a defined software release. *(computing)*
- The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposit layer in Sri Lanka forms a geologic boundary enclosing marine sediments and debris. *(geology)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-album.music*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-album.music.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*