@spenderallegra She uses her voice fearlessly because she knows so many artists in this country can’t - without the threat of losing funding or opportunities. This obsession AFR writers have with creating a spectacle and damaging social cohesion is beyond creepy and should be studied.
CORNUCOPIA is now available to watch on demand on Apple Music @AppleMusic and AppleTV+ @AppleTV !!
Watch it here : https://t.co/PFPVT7otbd
i am so thrilled to share an hour excerpt of the Cornucopia concert film here with you online .
the full version will be played later in theatres .
this has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping out . i am so beyond enormously grateful to every single one of them .
i feel the modern concert film is a matriarchially friendly construct , welcomed in the current climate . where female musicians can share their worlds uncorrupted . in cornucopia , i was joined by musical director and multi instrumentalist bergur þórisson , percussionist manu delago , flute septet Viibra , harpist katie buckley and the hamrahlid choir .
i spent last decade working with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation, creating Biophilia and later Vulnicura as a VR album. i was deeply inspired by the idea of a fully-immersive experience spreading Utopia and Fossora into fully surround speakers. my intention was to bring what we had created for 21st-century VR into a 19th-century theatre - taking it from the headset to the stage.
this vision was realised with 27 moving curtains that captured projections on different textures and LED screens, creating a digitally animated show : a "modern lanterna magica" for live music. i also wanted to feature bespoke instruments: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a circular flute, and a reverb chamber, specially built with an audio architect to enhance the most intimate version of a performance—in a personal chapel.
throughout this tale, there is a subplot woven in: a second story of an avatar—a modern marionette who alchemically mutates, from puppet to puppet, from the injury of a heart wound to a fully healed state.
i hope you enjoy it.
warmthness,
björk
🧵I saw an Aboriginal aunty busking in Newtown last night. She plays the saxophone & it was special.
I listened for 20mins, dropped $50 into her case & said "You remind me of Marlene Cummings, the great blues & Jazz artist from way back."
She looked up, crying: "I am Marlene."
This is so sickening. Israel MUST BE STOPPED: starting with its politicians, its soldiers, its settlers, and its ideological fanatics.
We must save the Palestinians from the depravity of the century.