vulnicura vr trailer

i am so happy to share finally the complete version of vulnicura VR with all the songs now available in one place - it is a digital home for all the virtual reality videos we made , and will be released this friday 6th september

the VR videos have been touring museums around the world as part of the Björk Digital exhibition , but now that it is possible to put them all out on an accessible gaming platform available to everyone , i am thrilled for people to be able to download them in their own home

vulnicura VR has been a long journey which started when me and andy thomas huang started talking about how we wanted to document "stonemilker"

we then filmed it on a 360 camera on a beach in iceland in november 2014 . we werent sure how to share it because of how few owned VR headsets . we started by putting a dozen of headsets in Rough trade record shops in brooklyn and bethnal green and got really good reactions . i then got offered to do an exhibition in sydney and by june 2016 we brought headsets there with "stonemilker" , "notget" and "mouth mantra" and then adding live performance of "quicksand" with AR for tokyo july 2016 . the exhibition then travelled to london , montreal and reykjavík in the autumn where we added "black lake" and "family" . it has also been to los angeles , mexico city , houston , barcelona , moscow , poznan , buenos aires , bogota and it is currently travelling between 4 cities in brazil

the whole process has been an improvisation , trying to keep faith in formats . it is too easy for musicians to turn pessimistic after cds have evaporated but i wanted to try to have courage to grow along with how 360 sound and vision tech was growing . with every challenge try to turn it into an additional gift for the ideology in the music . these 7 VR videos are done with 6 different companies , 4 softwares 6 different directors . early in this journey it became obvious that the process for great 360 sound mastering did not exist so we had to invent our own on the way .... there were dozens of other similar challenges ......

i am someone who absolutely loves music and gets so moved by the sensation of it . when andy proposed filming stonemilker on the beach it was perhaps him tapping into how spatial and connected to nature my songs are . i wrote that song , walking on the same beach and filming it in 360 and sharing it in surround sound seems the most natural way to invite my listeners humbly into my music .

the themes for the digital animations were a collaborations of mine with james merry and i would like to thank him for being my co-pilot for the visual art direction for this whole thing . he is so enormously talented and has had the patience to listen to my endless tales about the psychology and the sensation of healing through my most difficult album to write to date : my heartbreak album . it came to my surprise how metaphysical and "selfhelpy" heartbreak-healing really is . there is a reason why mankind has talked about broken hearts for aeons . you physically feel as a part of your body has fallen apart , has been torn off . there literally is a chestwound that is sown together and healed . when i first was watching VR in 2014 , the way i recognized it´s strengths and weaknesses seem to match the album i had in my hands perfectly . when you put the headset on , it is very isolating . heartbreak is . it also gives an escapist relief . which heartbreak needs . but there is also a hidden quality i personally think is going to be the most unexplored in the future , the healing potential of VR . the amount of crying that was done into the headsets in sydney convinced me and james that we were on the right track , this was something people were experiencing on a visceral level .

i would like to thank andrew melchior for setting up teams and introducing us to a plethora of tech

and all the directors to be up for this experiment , andy thomas huang , jesse kanda , nick thornton jones and warren du preez , inez & vinoodh, our japanese collaborators : dentsu and rhizomatiks . and stephen malinowski for his wonderful 3d notation animations

also mandy parnell and martin korth who pioneered our own take on the 360 mixing and mastering with me , solving and programming endless solutions

chris pike and chris elms were divine engineers on this

profound thanks to analog studios for going above and beyond in building this umbrella app to house everyone's work

and also to protools and audiokinetic

i hope you enjoy this ......

as always i am grateful for your interest

warmthness

björk

[natemarx]

Make sure to say thank you very loudly whenever Björk post a new upload.

[laxmi]

Such beautiful surrealistic visuals, amazing to see even a little of what goes on inside Björk's mind.

[internet_the]

just waiting for the announcement of 'Cornucopia DVD' or 'Cornucopia (Live Album) ! love you, Icelandic queen

[suggahree]

So, I'm 42 and I have to say that I feel so lucky and slightly a bit superior to younger gens because I have been able to grow up with this amazing goddess. Its unreal to me that she stays as magnificent as day one and gets better with time. Bjork has never let fame change her one bit and has used it so that she can help inspire her fans to come along and be amazing right with her. Just gorgeous. Inside and out. Thank you.

[simeonkim]

one of the greatest artists of all time until now

[leodlibes]

To know you, it's to love you. Love you... BJÖRK, till the ends of my days.from Brazil

[silviacosta]

Turning an album of the deepest pain into the most beautiful flowers. Thank you.

[mikefields]

A true artist, in every sense of the word

[Kurovespertine]

I've been contemplating visuals I might engage during a trip. Vulnicura visuals in full just may be the answer.

[xectilus]

The queen is coming to Steam. Halleloo.

[remoteheavens]

comments can't describe how much I admire You Bjork!

[LouisOnAir]

I remember seeing this 3 years ago in London. At the time I wanted to feel truly in the moment after seeing your performances and emotions so impossibly up close, as if that day in October would never end. As a memory, it still feels closer to me than most of the things that have happened since then, as if I haven't changed as a person from that day. I have changed a lot but that day will always be a part of me, so I'm glad to see you've developed this project fully, as personally it connects me to my past and I don't know if I've had as vivid an experience since.

[ferilovestvorog]

I've been waiting for this for a long time, and finally
thank you Bjork!!!

[MedJayParis]

Genius, avant garde, the greatest artist of this generation

[lolitis]

I think Wonderlust was her first VR/3D type video, but I never got to see it in 3D. Stone Milker is already on YouTube VR, I love it. Notget is also on YouTube but it's not really in VR format, I can't wait to be able to see it though!! And everything else! I love this, it's so awesome of her to do this!

[MonoLith]

Thank you Bjork you beautiful living organism x

[rhb]

I'm so happy to have had the pleasure of honoring Björk Digital in Brazil last month. For the SECOND time I went to São Paulo to see the exhibition. Because the first time the tickets were SOLD OUT! Yeah ... But it was worth every effort! An amazing experience totally innovative. Especially where technology hasn't come so popular yet. Thank you for Björk Digital on MIS Björk! Come to Brazil! REALLY! I don't want to have to go to Mexico to see your art, live anyway! Ahahahaha Love ya. Xoxo
#PrayForAmazonia
#BjörkDigital
#EleNão

[ternitamas]

such a unique artist. In this world of "more of the same thing" her art is like an oasis ❤

[MartinRockstrom]

Oh my god... This is EXITING!
I’m looking forward to Lionsong...
*_Thank you for this!_*

[divinelovefrequency]

Beautiful goddess of earth and sky...Bjork love is the most unique of resonant vibrations....♥️🙏⚛🎶⚘🥰