Again in 2019, Björk staged a collection of elaborate theater live shows known as Cornucopia, which we described as “a sensory feast.” She introduced again the Cornucopia manufacturing post-pandemic in European arenas, writing on the time that Cornucopia was all the time meant to “be a world” for each her 2017 album Utopia and “the album after that …. which is now on the market,” 2022’s Fossora. A Cornucopia e book got here out final fall, and in the present day Björk introduced that the Sept. 1, 2023 Cornucopia efficiency in Lisbon was filmed for a brand new high-tech live performance film. The movie will premiere partially this Friday night time on Apple Music and Apple TV+ earlier than the total model screens in film theaters finally.
In an announcement on her social media accounts, Björk mentioned that after creating VR worlds to go together with her albums, she wished to create “a fully-immersive expertise” for her live shows: “my intention was to carry what we had created for Twenty first-century VR right into a Nineteenth-century theatre – taking it from the headset to the stage.” The manufacturing concerned “27 transferring curtains that captured projections on totally different textures and LED screens,” she defined. She added, “i additionally wished to characteristic bespoke devices: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a round flute, and a reverb chamber, specifically constructed with an audio architect to boost probably the most intimate model of a efficiency—in a private chapel.” The film is co-produced by Talkhouse, and its live-recorded songs shall be out there to stream in spatial audio on Apple Music.
To advertise the Cornucopia film premiere, Björk sat for an interview with Apple’s Zane Lowe, billed as her first on-camera interview in a decade. The interview will premiere this Thursday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on Apple Music 1. The film itself will hit Apple Music and Apple TV+ this Friday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET.
In different Björk x Apple enterprise, on New Yr’s Eve she did a DJ set for Apple Music Reside, and as of this month all her albums besides Biophilia have been blended for Dolby Atmos on Apple Music.
Learn Björk’s assertion concerning the film and watch a preview clip beneath.
i’m so thrilled to share an hour excerpt of the Cornucopia live performance movie right here with you on-line .
the total model shall be performed later in theatres .
this has been a protracted journey with a whole bunch of individuals serving to out . i’m so past enormously grateful to each single one in all them .i really feel the fashionable live performance movie is a matriarchially pleasant assemble , welcomed within the present local weather . the place feminine musicians can share their worlds uncorrupted . in cornucopia , i used to be joined by musical director and multi instrumentalist bergur þórisson , percussionist manu delago , flute septet Viibra , harpist katie buckley and the hamrahlid choir .
i spent final decade working with 360-degree sound and visible software program in digital actuality and animation, creating Biophilia and later Vulnicura as a VR album. i used to be deeply impressed by the concept of a fully-immersive expertise spreading Utopia and Fossora into totally encompass audio system. my intention was to carry what we had created for Twenty first-century VR right into a Nineteenth-century theatre – taking it from the headset to the stage.
this imaginative and prescient was realised with 27 transferring curtains that captured projections on totally different textures and LED screens, making a digitally animated present : a “fashionable lanterna magica” for dwell music. i additionally wished to characteristic bespoke devices: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a round flute, and a reverb chamber, specifically constructed with an audio architect to boost probably the most intimate model of a efficiency—in a private chapel.
all through this story, there’s a subplot woven in: a second story of an avatar—a contemporary marionette who alchemically mutates, from puppet to puppet, from the damage of a coronary heart wound to a completely healed state.
i hope you take pleasure in it.
warmthness,
björk
CORNUCOPIA on Apple Music @applemusic and AppleTV+ @AppleTV !! This Friday, twenty fourth of January at 7pm PT. #AppleMusicLive
i’m so thrilled to share an hour excerpt of the Cornucopia live performance movie right here with you on-line .
the total model shall be performed later in theatres .
this has… pic.twitter.com/jAfJnI5hFs— björk (@bjork) January 22, 2025