The link of the day is clearly Crystalline: Bjork’s new video with Michel Gondry.  What can you say? It’s very Bjork, very Gondry, very beautiful stop frame animation. It’s lovely, but I’m not so sure about her Bjorkness jiggling about inside the disco glitter ball.

The Awl’s take on it was typically wry:

“This takes me back to a simpler time! It is pleasant to see two people—Björk and Michel Gondry!—have fun in a form they know and like so much. Miss you, the 90s.”

Here’s an article on Billboard about the making of Crystalline.

Gondry:

“We shot it frame by frame, and we shot it by recranking the camera and re-exposing the film many times,” Gondry says. “I decided for this that the shower of meteorite would hit the ground and produce a sound . . . The idea that a beam of light can have the impact to make these things move is something that intrigued me. Later on, they create some ripples-like rain. At the third verse, they create bubbles in which the metallic objects appear. All of those are the result of multiple conversations with [Björk] that were going in many directions.”

If that’s not enough Biophilia for you, here’s the new Wired feature:

How Björk’s ‘Biophilia’ album fuses music with iPad apps

That’s my evening’s reading sorted then. Now, if only I could read it on an iPad. Hmmm…

Hot damn - how I am looking forward to Bjork’s new album Biophilia. Gutted to miss out on the Manchester Festival shows. Thanks to @proteinfeed for the reminder of this upcoming excitement.

In a collaborative project with Apple, digital artist Scott Snibble and directed by Michel Gondy, the album will be breaking new ground when it’s released at the end of this month as a series of iPad apps. Each app will be specifically designed for the single from the full studio album and will have interactive visuals where users can remix the recorded tracks.

In a recorded statement, on her newly designed website, the artist describes how she sees the new multimedia project as ‘a continuation of Volta, whereas where Volta is about anthropology, this is kind of without the humans.’ She goes on to describe how cosmology and ‘the physics of sound’ are a key source of inspiration for the album.

Hell yes, that Bjork is one talented, creative, smart lady. My hero.