Music – Page 13 – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

September 4, 2016

Björk’s Teases New VR Album With Live Motion Capture Press Conference

September 2, 2016

Björk on her inspirations: a drag queen, a videogame, a knitwear prodigy and more

In this exclusive interview, as her exhibition Björk Digital opens in London, the pop pioneer reveals the artists making an impression on her

Björk Digital review – to virtual reality and beyond

Björk is talking about the future in a way that only Björk can. Discussing technology and culture, she says that new times give us new tools but only we can decide what should be done with them. “Are we gonna be lazy or let them stimulate us to be expressive? Are we going to create or destroy? Doesn’t matter if it was fire, the knife, the gun, the atom bomb, tech, or whatever. These things don’t come with humanity or a soul. We have to put it there.”

September 1, 2016

Björk Digital review – to virtual reality and beyond

Somerset House, London
The musician’s otherworldly VR album-exhibition shows that technology can’t quite keep up with her galactic-scale artistic ambition

Well, this is definitely the most fun you can have inside a gigantic pulsating mouth this month. Predictably, Björk Digital is a peculiar affair. It is essentially the first chance to watch – or perhaps “experience” or “inhabit” would be more appropriate – four of the new virtual reality videos for Vulnicura tracks that are to be released “on all major VR platforms” this winter, plus a couple of cinema rooms and some odd musical instruments and iPad apps you can tootle on. Ticketholders are led through in timed groups so that VR stations and this immersive exhibition can be experienced in sync. It’s neither art exhibition nor film presentation nor tech demonstration, but a hodge-podge of all of the above.

August 31, 2016

Björk: ‘I build bridges between tech and the human things we do’

Icelandic singer brings her 360-degree VR show to London’s Somerset House, putting the universe of Vulnicura on display

Few will be surprised to learn that Björk admits she can be something of a control freak when it comes to her musical output.

“When I make my music I am a bit of a tyrant – it is my world and people follow my vision,” she says with a giggle. “But with the visuals it’s more of a collaboration.”