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Björk on Her New Concert Movie, ‘Cornucopia,’ and Creating an Immersive Sci-Fi Universe on Stage and on Film: ‘I Want Optimistic Goth’
Björk talks about her concert film, 'Björk: Cornucopia,' now in cinemas, and creating an immersive sci-fi universe to reflect her albums' emotions.
That’s to be expected in talking about a project that uses fantastical imagery to experimentally and explosively plumb the emotional depths of the albums that made up her “Cornucopia” tour set list – the healing, post-breakup music of “Vulnicura,” the vivid life-death cycle of “Fossora” and the myth, mirth and uplift of “Utopia.” As the tour and film’s “sound and visual director,” Björk coaxed and curated an immersive universe of digitally animated moving curtains (a modern lanterna magica), electric vulvas, propulsive snow, spiraling twines of light and angel-winged instrumentalists playing in Dolby Atmos spatial audio. Then we had the total opposite because I wanted to counter all the digital-ness with something extremely analog, and the song which displayed that look best was “Body Memory.” There we removed the screens, took away the “magika lantera” effect and added a 50-piece choir, seven-meter-long organ pipes, a circular flute, bespoke magnetic harp and more.
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