Singer-songwriter-composer, producer Björk is the next artist to take the stage for Apple Music Live: Cornucopia film executive produced by Talkhouse and due out Friday, January 24 at 7pm PT / 10pm ET. The Icelandic avant-garde musician, known for her boundary-pushing sound and theatrical performances, will perform Cornucopia, a one of a kind digitally animated show with moving curtains, a modern lanterna magica for live music, where 21st-century VR visuals are brought into a 19th-century theatre.
The concert was recorded in Lisbon. The Apple Music Live: Björk setlist was arranged to celebrate Björk’s lifetime of creative innovation – taking fans on a journey through her vivid early-career compositions like “Isobel” and “Hidden Place” up to her ambitious 2017 Utopia and 2023 Fossora . The show’s live-recorded songs will be available after the livestream in Spatial Audio, exclusively on Apple Music. Talkhouse partnered with Björk, Level Forward and Snowstorm Productions to fund and create the film. “We’re privileged and ecstatic to partner with Björk again,” says Talkhouse President Ian Wheeler. “Like everything she does, the film is an unparalleled achievement. This also marks the first of many to come film projects produced by Talkhouse.”
In an extensive career-spanning conversation airing tomorrow on Apple Music 1, Björk sits down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe for her first on-camera interview in a decade – giving fans a rare glimpse into her creative process and the iconic woman behind the music. She tells Lowe about her new climate-focused film “Cornucopia,” how she creates her music using technology, working with esteemed biologist Sir David Attenborough, and more.
The performance comes on the heels of Björk’s electrifying set as a part of Apple Music Live:
NYE—which aired on the new Apple Music Club and Apple Music 1 on December 31st—and her core catalog coming to Apple Music subscribers in Spatial Audio. Fans can re-experience the artist’s NYE set and essential catalog now in Spatial Audio, exclusively on Apple Music.
Björk: The Zane Lowe Interview will air tomorrow, Thursday, January 23 at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on Apple Music 1. The exclusive Apple Music Live: Björk performance will debut Friday, January 24 at 7p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET on Apple Music. Fans can stream the Apple Music Live performance anytime on demand on Apple Music after the livestream. They can also relive highlights from the show and re-experience the artist’s core catalog in Spatial Audio, exclusively on Apple Music.
About Björk
Björk is a rare artist – a true original, a non-conformist with wide appeal, an extraordinary genre-busting musical individual who speaks to the heart, the head and the feet. She is the quintessential modern musician, ceaselessly innovating, and completely multi-dimensional in the way she uses performance, technology, fashion, video and art to complement her music.
Björk’s every output has remarkably disrupted boundaries, and through her career she has built an unmatched self-reflexive catalogue. Björk’s critically-acclaimed ninth studio record ‘Utopia’ led to the conception of Bjork’s 2019 Cornucopia live shows. Heralded as her most ‘elaborate stage concert yet’, Cornucopia has been the artist’s first ever production created with a theatrical team and artists, debuting as a residency show at NYC’s The Shed. The show has since then toured globally, receiving countless stellar reviews, with Rolling Stone commenting that it was a ‘spectacle of cutting-edge sound and image’.
Never ceasing to innovate, in 2019 Björk also debuted Vulnicura VR, a 360’ immersive virtual reality edition of her eight studio album. On the cutting edge of technology, Björk collaborated with a team comprising of both music and game experts to create a multi-channel, dynamically rendered, object-based audio soundtrack as experienced in a motion tracking VR headset, allowing audio levels and audio location and dynamics to change with the users different head positions and movements. Users find themselves transported to a digital Icelandic landscape through which they travel on a journey that will take them to a windswept beach for a one-on-one performance with Björk, through a subterranean lava tunnel, to a live augmented reality performance in Japan and even inside Björk’s mouth.
From the release of her first album ‘Debut’ in 1993 Björk has now sold over 20 million albums worldwide. She has acquired significant critical acclaim, also winning 4 Brit Awards 4 MTV VMA’s and in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her “deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice.”
About Apple Music
Apple loves music. Apple revolutionized the music experience with iPod and iTunes. Today, the award-winning Apple Music celebrates musicians, songwriters, producers, and fans with a catalog of over 100 million songs, expertly curated playlists, and the best artist interviews, conversations, and global premieres with Apple Music Radio. With original content from the most respected and beloved people in music, autoplay, time-synced lyrics, lossless audio, and immersive sound powered by Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos, Apple Music offers the world’s best listening experience, helping listeners discover new music and enjoy their favorites while empowering the global artist community. Apple Music is available in 167 countries and regions on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV, HomePod, CarPlay, and online at music.apple.com, plus popular smart speakers, smart TVs, and Android and Windows devices. Apple Music is ad-free and never shares consumer data with third parties. More information is available at apple.com/apple-music.
About Talkhouse
Talkhouse is a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company, podcast network, and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Talkhouse’s podcast series include How Long Gone, Blank Check, Alison Roman’s Solicited Advice, Life of the Record, Craig Finn’s That’s How I Remember It, Santigold’s Noble Champions, and The Screenwriting Life, as well as Listening, an unprecedented program featuring Jeff Tweedy, Neko Case and more that The Guardian describes as “part podcast, part album,” and Björk: Sonic Symbolism, which GQ praises as “a road map to the creative life,” delivering what The New Yorker calls “a rare chance to listen in as one of the most mysterious and mystical artists working today explains herself. Björk’s Cornucopia represents Talkhouse’s first foray into producing TV/film. Other projects are currently in development and production.
