Bjork's Own Answers to a Q&A
On this reddit post, Bjork herself answered questions from the audience and looking into this will give me direct and personal understanding of her interests and what she is about.
"4/4 human bipedal" - her songs atom dance and moon are rying to tap into the atoms rotating and celebrational element of sufi or the icelandic/northern equivalent of this.
moon was trying to also incluse eternal spaceious space of space - celebrating irregularity n tapping into meanings from tarots. “which is kinda possessed and water like , absolutely no grid at all !! sometimes borderline hysteria but overall the liquid shape of our feelings being prime here , def ignoring all boxes and squares of the four corners of 4/4 ha ha ha ha”
“very interesting question ... i feel w most of my albums and concerts i will strip down to a sparse place w an acoustic instrument and in free time to try to make sure this connection and this simplicity is respected at least once ..... or even in songs like "history of touches" or " desired constellation" that are electronic but perhaps try for a poetic simplicity versus complex arrangement structures ..... ?”
“i prob was lucky because as a teenager in reykjavik nothing was going on . so we kinda had to make it up ourselves and release it ourselves . so when i have been introduced to restricting claustrophobic routes ive kinda just ignored them . because knew they werent true . and selling 3 copies dont scare me , more important to stay true to my nature .... ? also coming from punk background corporate companies where the enemy . it is really very clear . and more simple really”
- not fixed to grids
- not corporate
- poetic rather than having a fixed arrangement structure.
play with irregularity, and different kerning.
interested in: tarots, mythology, rhythm, poetry, irregular forms, icelandic nature, mythology
"I look at Biophilia and I’m kind of frightened. It’s like vertigo... or a black hole! There is no musician we could have gone so far with. Each time, because it’s so creatively demanding, you ask, ‘how am I going to come up with something as daring?’ It needs to be revolutionary. The answer is because she always challenges herself.”
“She is a curator of her own archive. She knows how to reactivate that archive so that she doesn’t sleep on a dead body of work. The main subject of the exhibition is not so much her but more what she produced. She produced music; she’s a true musician. The core of her artistic production is music and the core of music is music notation. This is why eventually on the cover [of the book] it’s a music partition. That’s a strong image to remember the artist as, just like John Cage, where the material of his art was music.
Behind the music partition, she displayed a set of seven characters and the seven characters were invented by Björk to promote the core of an artistic production that is music and music as a language. Each character was speaking the language of music she invented. It has been very complicated to articulate all these crucial points. You are dealing with a multi-dimensional image, but our collaboration has been successful because there is a true respect of the artistic integrity on both sides.”
- Revolutionary - she challenges herself with her music so explore how challenging the type can be - experimental.
- Her core focus is on her music production and the core of that is "music notation" - Definition :" is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols. " - Symbols, visual representation of aura / perception.
- How to encompass her multi dimensional image?
MoMA
“In the Museum lobby, instruments used on Biophilia (2011)—a gameleste, pipe organ, gravity harp, and Tesla coil—play songs from the album at different points throughout the day.”
The physical representation is very organic - using man made and nature.
“On the third floor, Songlines presents an interactive, location-based audio experience through Björk’s albums, with a biographical narrative that is both personal and poetic, written by the acclaimed Icelandic writer Sjón, along with many visuals, objects, and costumes, including the robots designed by Chris Cunningham for the “All Is Full of Love” music video, Marjan Pejoski’s Swan Dress (2001), and Iris van Herpen’s Biophilia tour dress (2013), among many others.”
Interactive, personal, poetic.
Others Who Have Collaborated with Bjork
- Sjón : founder of neo-surrealist group ‘Medúsa’ . Focuses on creating “a world of metamorphosis” http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-sjon/ Aesthetic to due with transformations, natural forms, mutations, reconstruction
- Chris Cunningham http://www.somewhere-magazine.com/bjork-all-is-full-of-love-directed-by-chris-cunningham-throwback/ science fiction, discordant imagery
“When Cunningham first heard the track, he wrote down the words « milk », « sexual », « surgery », and « white porcelain »; they outline what would become the music video. Concerning this, Cunningham added that it was like Kama Sutra meeting Industrial Robotics and that because of the surreal nature of the images, they could be « sexually suggestive » as they liked. Initially, it was planned that during the visual’s ending, the robots would unfold like a flower as they mated, revealing an abstract life form made from the two artificial forms.”
Focusing on nature, pushing boundaries, surrealism.
Process of designed for Bjork is to start by writing words when listening/looking at her work.
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