In ''Crystalline,'' one of the new songs Björk performed on Friday evening at the New York Hall of Science, she sang: ''Octagon polygon/pipes of an organ/sonic branches/ murmuring drone.'' Video screens arranged octagonally above the in-the-round stage showed crystal shapes advancing along the inside of something branchlike. There was a droning...
PEOPLE tell me all the time that I have a dream job. ''You play video games for a living,'' they say. ''Every man in America wishes he could do that.'' So do I. You see, game critics don't actually get paid to play games (just as food critics don't actually get paid to eat). We get paid to write about them, and there's a big difference. The most...
Since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, there has been only one way to listen to recorded music: Listen to it. That is, to consume passively a precise sequence of sounds exactly as they have been arranged. But what if, in addition to songs, a musician provided intuitive, creative tools that let you control the basic components of the music...
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (født 21. november 1965 i Reykjavik, Island) er sanger og komponist. Allerede som 12-årig udgav hun sit første album – primært med islandske børnesange. Senere voksede hendes musikalske interesse og i begyndelsen af 1980'erne var hun med til at danne bandet Kukl og blev gift med guitaristen Thor Eldon. Den 8. juni 1986 fik hun en søn og dannede samtidig bandet Sykurmolarnir (internationalt bedre kendt under det engelske navn Sugarcubes). Bandet havde middelmådig succes frem til 1992, hvor det blev opløst. Björk fulgte nu sit eget spor i et samarbejde med produceren Nellee Hooper fra Massive Attack – et frugtbart samarbejde, der blev til udgivelsen Debut, der satte sig tungt på en hel ungdomsgeneration og radiostationerne med numre som "Human Behavior", "Play Dead", "Venus as a boy" og "Come to me". Fold ud