The Icelandic Björk – one of the most influential artists of their generation in the world of pop – has joined Apple Music Livewith a concert of “Cornucopia” and with an extensive interview with Zane Lowe.
On this occasion, last Friday Björk presented “Cornucopia “an innovative show that combines digital animation with mobile curtains, transporting the public to a unique visual and auditory experience – you can see the interpretation of “Arisen My Sensses” under these lines. With virtual reality visuals of the 21st century in an environment with all the warmth of the most luxurious theaters of the 19 Recent “Utopia” and “Fossora”.
The songs played in the event will be available in Space audioexclusively in Apple Musicallowing fans to live the experience with an immersive sound depth. He Apple Music Live of Björk It is completed with an interview that you can also see under these lines with Zane Lowe.
Björk speaks in Apple Music about the avatars represented in the movie Cornucopia
It has ended up being a selection of the avatars that I have made with different directors, from the Avatar Notget to the Avatar Family de Vulnicura, to the avatars of The Gate and Utopia, and then thess and Tabula Rasa, and then all the way until now with Nick Knight. So, basically, there is an intra story in the movie of avatars that are like puppets or dolls that represent me in different stages. Because some of them were actually virtual, some of them were in musical videos, some of them were in different places, and to get everything in 90 minutes, to get all of them to appear and all with different color palettes, everything Very emotional and very moving emotional …
Björk explains to Apple Music the process of composition of his music
I always write a song per month, one every two months. It doesn’t matter what happens in my life, it’s like the full moon or as a rhythm that I have been doing for a long time. So I think that at the moment I publish an album, a part of me feels very relieved and since I feel bored with a theme because I am super excited to do something completely opposite. So I begin to collect information or investigate or whatever with technology too. But then, to contradict what I just said … I also get bored very easily, so I never want to do things twice. So sometimes, I first write all the songs, as I did in Vulnicura only with the string arrangements, and then I do the next stage. Or sometimes I start in another way … as with Utopia, perhaps with flute arrangements for a year and rehearsing with flutists in my cabin every Friday, and all of us driving there and compensating us as a group and making us very good friends, and That becomes the heart of an album. And then, then I put other things on you. I think it’s a mixture of everything that happens. I also try not to be directed by technology. I want art to be with the soul first and art is to help the soul to express itself.
Björk talks to Apple Music about the use of technology to express oneself
Björk: … we have so many things that we can express, but also a lot of things that we simply cannot express. It is inexpressible. Some of them, thank God, we can express them through music, not necessarily whether we are musicians or not, simply dancing or listening to music at home or whatever. But I have always seen technology as a kind of magical key that can reach places where other things cannot. When at the beginning the touch screen arrived, it was like: “My God, I can make a musicological map.” I wish I had a 3D screen when I was in the music school and could have seen how the counterpoint works in physics. It is something that depends on gravity, not something you read in a thick book. So I think that sometimes, technology reaches us and allows us to mark something that is actually like drinking water, makes it easier. As I said many times, I was very happy when the laptop arrived and then, finally, when you could record on the peaks of the mountains while doing hiking or could take the phone on top. I am like, “Wow, with technology, I can go to nature, and my study is in nature, not in any study filled with foam and without windows in the middle of a city.” So I think technology brightens us more and more to the ideal way of expressing ourselves.
Björk reflects with Apple Music about his collaboration with Sir David Attenborough
Björk: I remember that we had to film, and we were in the basement of the Natural History Museum. And something broke, some team, and we had to sit there for hours to fix it. And he only sat there, obviously twice my age. I was basically exhausted, and he too and I looked at him and thought: “Basically, I could imagine it in Papua New Guinea doing the same, because I bet the teams always break. You had to wait seven hours for a bird of paradise or whatever. Basically he went out, closed his eyes, and then he went into action and then he came out with the most beautiful paragraph, a totally formed phrase, without script, something you have never heard. It was simply like an overlap of the speaker.
Björk speaks in Apple Music about the concept of “cornucopia”
I think that one of the beauties of aging is that one looks more like the roof of a cathedral. There are a thousand pieces and it takes two years to do them. So you try to get the whole, a very feminine and cohesive energy, making sure that all the pieces are there. So I think that with this piece Cornucopia, I was part of everything. I was there when it was mixed, when it was masterful, when it was edited. I was in each of the processes of this. So what I am really trying to think is holistic. And then there is the other side of me, which is more about getting it guttural, emotional, keeping it real.
I think maybe Cornucopia also has something in the name. The idea of abundance is an answer to the environmental problems in which we are, patriarchy. It is an answer to many problems. And the answer is, don’t stop there. We have abundance. We have solutions. We can start over. We cannot go to an island with flutes and children, and maybe we lose many of our species. Biology is strong enough to mutate, and create new creatures that will survive. And it is something optimistic, and biology can handle it.
It is a post-optimist thing, cornucopia. That’s why I struggled for it. There was my heart, to defend that. We had the wound … We had the revelation of rawness. But there was also healing, there were the other options. We can choose. We can still create a new climate agreement of Paris and comply this time.
Björk talks to Apple Music about environmental activism and its inspiration for the climate-centered concert
It is like: «Ok, the damage is already done. How do you live inside him? Therefore, it is more than that protection of biodiversity, more things like that perhaps the X-Standing generation and the punk shouting and pointing to the finger to the people who have factories. If I shout stronger, they will stop. That will no longer work. It is rather about providing solutions and trying to help. Everyone wants to help. We all feel guilty. There are 7 billion people paralyzed because of what we did to the planet. We don’t even have to discuss that. Therefore, we cannot add that factor of guilt. I think it’s more about helping to go to court, how can I click, how can I write new laws that can change the system from within? Therefore, those cases, strange as it may seem, are winning. Therefore, I think we have to think about it more from that point of view now. It is an inclination, try to be humble and listen to them.
