This was just her home studio where she worked on songs and made demos. All of her albums were recorded in a profession studio, with state of the art equipment. Also: Björk shows residential recording studio in Spain: ua-cam.com/video/4NLIBGGu8ZA/v-deo.html
+Christopher Griswold OH Sorry :) That Language is one of the hardest in the world I think, Im in Finland and still havent got Finnish down yet :) have a nice day
I met Bjork in 1994, she was walking up our building stairs looking for the people who worked in the studio above us in Kentish Town, i was outside on our landing and she thought i was waiting for her. Shook her hand and pointed her upwards. Made my day.
i don't speak Icelandic but i believe what she said was "i make all my music in an empty flat with only a casio and a 4-track and an effects box. and it's still better than 99% of everything that comes out of the big studios." and the other woman said "Bjork -- Iceland's Greatest National Treasure"
@@philippe597 Well its possible she has a home studio she can produce her albums in now - but back in 1994, a decent home studio was well out of reach for most people. I think there was some rudimentary DAW and tracker software, but it was still pretty lacking.
@@TheLokiBiz check again my post, i talked about her room, not about an home studio, so you and me said the same thing. She certainly did some demo tapes at home or in a room before the big studio recording
I met her in Delhi airport back in the 90s. She was on her own, despite her fame then, and wearing a gold wig (to keep a low profile). She saw that I recognised her , and just smiled bashfully
That's rad! I got to speak about creativity and art with David Byrne once in the late 90's. He was completely accommodating, kind, present, and answered my questions as if I too was just someone like him. I'll always remember it. Not even most normal people treated me with that much respect at age 18.
@@SendU2Jesus Now that`s epic. He`s such a god of creativity. What a great memory for you. Perhaps it was quite influential in your life as well. What you say about respect is important. For a young person being listened to by a respected older, the experience is intense and rewarding. That`s good to hear about him, I like him more for it. Take it easy buddy.
Actually this was how most people made music at home in the 80s/90s. Four track cassette, keyboard, mic and that Yamaha sound module/sequencer which was state of the art at the time.
I've met her when I was backpacking thorough eastern Europe. She was staying in Ukrainian hostel in small town. She had a big red cat with her and a big bowl of bacon flavored rice popcorn. She shook my hand and said that I have a beautiful horse. Or maybe that was a dream, not sure
My uncle worked at a restaurant in sweden in the late 90s. One day, he got to serve björk. She wore a big white fur coat in the middle of the summer and ordered one single glass of milk
Bra, if I visited some chicks apartment for the first time and there is no furniture in and some equipment lazily strewn on the floor I'd probably propose to her on the spot.
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people. this is what she recorded 'demos' with. then she would take those demos into a bigger studio where there were pro engineers and more pro synths and gear.
I get that... But also, the right person can do so so so much with a Yamaha Qy and a cassette deck. Freezepop is a classic example. Whole first two albums are on a Yamaha QY70 alone.
I remember many years ago, possibly around this time, I saw a piece on tv about bjork and she was walking along the beach programming drums or a sequencer. Was one of the first things I saw that inspired me to want to make music at home.
Same here, I saw it too. I was amazed by this tinny little box in her hands. I never thought that somebody can create music on a beach, just like that. I remember that after this TV scene, everybody had looked for this sequencer "on the beach". I went to a music shop and I described what I saw, and the seller said : "Oh yeah, you are talking about Björk and the beach scene". I strongly think that it's the same little sequencer on this video. And even now I still don't know its name ! Many years later, I get my little box to make music.
LOL! That's Casio SA-10 toy synthesizer ( famous for its DEMO button that played Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go ) . I have the same synth somewhere in my house. Great cheap little thing with surprisingly good sounds.
@@phranquepeasant5688 don't mean to be rude but that's why you are not björk, she doesnt care or glorify the tool, cause it's a tool. whole purpose of it life is to serve eh
@Rising star no matter how expensive it is that still is a tool exist only to serve humans made by again the same humans. if you had a money to afford something that expensive i assure you would use it with your feet and throw mucus at it after a while
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I had most of that equipment back in the day, and it was ridiculously expensive.
Wait! This is the most inspirational thing that ı ever saw! She has literaly noting... But she knows that everything she need is everything she has! And me still trying to do "acoustic treatment" for my home studio. All we need is faith in ourselves! Life bless you Bjork! ...
well there is a big difference between laying down ideas/demo or producing a professional finished track, todays everyone want to produce music at home meaning getting a final product out of a computer, in this perspective acoustic treatment with professional monitor system is paramount, but if the goal is only developing some ideas, a computee with modern daw could do same 10000 times better even with the worse sounding room. In 1994 it was quite normal getting ideas at home with basic equipment and then moving into a professional studio with big mixing console for recording/mixing, now budgets are usually smaller so most composers have to work at home only with vst. However beeing creative is the most important thing, so if someone finds himself writing faster with a yamaha qy100 than with a pc no problem... Personally I've always worked with atari/mac, using cubase logic reason etc..., I will never be fast and inspired with that kind of setup, but it's only a matter of personal taste...
wow, after watching your videos i even find you in the comments. thank you for sharing even the life stories others are ashamed to tell. and btw i just watched this short animation and the lead character really looks like (a sad day version of) you specially on 0:29 ua-cam.com/video/GWGbOjlJDkU/v-deo.html
This guy JayB uses a Yamaha QY100 on many of his album releases. Very powerful bit of kit in the right hands. Here are a couple of recent songs but he has loads of others and also tutorials on his channel ua-cam.com/video/KOCId21ti_4/v-deo.htmlsi=bX1FFzQSyH6iqUl5
She is a real artist, her creative mind is unlike anyone else's I have ever known. She see things differently to us normal people, she can see things we never dreamed of. Listen to her music, watch her perform, its angelic.
Sorry to burst your bubble; she has been using top-notch studios , and an army of engineers, programmers, sound designers, song-writers, musicians and producers throughout all of her career.
@@dosanddonts2919 She's a sound designer. She like program synth. Many of her most intimist song are make alone with her materials. She's not a good musician (not playing very well instruments) but, give her a synth with senquencer and she making you a tracks in few hours.
@@mecyjecyIf she was a good sounddesigner, she wouldnt have to use other sounddesigners. Just look on discogs.com at the credits of her music and you'll see a whole team of high-profile engineers, programmers, sound designers, song-writers, musicians and producersis involved.
@@dosanddonts2919 Why ? Music is communion of musicians. She's very good sounds designer and works with others sounds designers is not forbiden. She's smart. It's like you say : "if he's a good guitar's player why he play with many others guitarist" What you say have no sens.
love you Bjork.... wow... looking back it was crazy hard to get stuff down.... looks like a 4 track cassette grrr.... i remember the bad old days with 4/8 tracks with drum machines and keyboard sequencers, then an atari 1040st and the first cubase.... today? it's all there in one program with a pile of plug-ins in a laptop.
They were good days in many ways, especially when digital multitracks became affordable at the end of the 1990s. I like having different gear for each thing you need to do, as it makes you think differently and sometimes leads to more creativity, due to trying new combinations of gear and how they are plugged in etc. These days its all on a computer as virtual plugins, that all sound the same, all used through the same interface that forces you to be in a computer frame of mind staring at a screen. Not very human or in the zone so to speak.
@@EgoShredder yep, when i first saw PC based in the mid 90's i thought it was weird sitting at a screen. for those of us that were fortunate to live in the analog age, we got to use things hands on... but i wouldn't go back to analog. i've spliced tape which cut/n/paste has revolutionised that... had to plumb 16tracks which cost a small fortune in leads coz cheap leads can sound cheap. owned outboard gear that can only be used once at a time and if you need another you have to buy another... 16ch of noise reduction and comp/lim, 4 -6 aux send/receive, tape that costs mega and burnswears, tape alignment and azimuth for compatibility with other machines, crosstalk/bleed, smpte code, you name it, it was all a huge effort and ginormous cost... and that was only 16tr... then in 1998 i got the 1st Creamware Pulsar system which is now Scope by Sonic Core. worth a look if you've never heard of it, and ran Cubase VST. i mostly use Vegas Pro and Ableton now. does everything i need. i still have outboard gear but only use for specific purposes like USB analog mixer, mic pre's or hardware vocoder/talk box. plug-ins can be good. depends on the user, how it's routed, and whether people understand how to use effectively eg: i love how i can select the freq. of a reverb on a voice and send it to another track for further eq and/or automation. make an audio file of it and make reverse gated type sounds from that to mix in... that took hours in analog. i run a dual zeon workstation with 32core, 64gig of ram, and M.2 drives. it rocks with unlimited everything... and can do synced multi 4k vid at the same time... that kind of production power was real hard in the days of tape and time code and cost a house... now it's a breeze and 1/100th the cost. i do like the digital clean sound even if it does sound a bit clinical but it can be warmed. many use an average mic and wonder why they never sit in the mix like the pro's. same with using Audacity vs a Pro audio sequencer. l love the Waves plugin "OVOX" coz it has a multitude of uses from vox to sub-bass enhancement... check that one out. if there's one plugin to buy it should be pretty high on the list.
@@AVportau I hear ya. Been there done that and I love the sound and experience of an analogue studio, but I prefer digital for convenience and speed. Back in 2004 onwards I used to work for the UK distributor of Creamware products Sonic8 Ltd, and so I am very familiar with all their stuff. Sold other brands too and had to occasionally speak to famous producers on the phone, or even the artist themselves. I've used Cubase since 1990 on the Atari STE, also the Falcon 030 in a pro studio although he got rid of the latter quickly. So in summary, I prefer computers for the audio/MIDI sequencing and mixing/mastering phase, but prefer to not use it for the writing and composing stages. It's a state of mind and consciousness thing, and wearing a different hat for each task.
@@EgoShredder yes, the good old 4tr is handy for writing, i do love the analog sound. hey, after my last message i thought i'd have a look at some old gear i used to own. i used to have a Roland Jupiter 8 and sold mine with the midi retro fit for $2500 about 25yrs ago... i couldn't believe people are asking $35k to $48k AU for one... sheeze i knew i should've kept it, but i've still got the Yamaha SY77 that replaced it which aint worth much lol. i glad you know of Pulsar and Scope coz not many do. it was another world back then... now computers are so hardcore and good interfaces available everywhere. i would've loved to be in the studio when Bjork was making her albums.
@@AVportau SY77 is a classic and a gem of a synth, back when Yamaha had their mojo. The analogue synths were traded in for peanuts in the 90s, and many of us wish we had held on to them now lol. I've gone back to composing on keyboard workstations e.g. MOTIF, and then transferring the song ideas to a DAW for fleshing out and finishing. Computers are great for editing/processing, as that is their best use IMHO. Even though I had access to the Scope and Pulsar stuff at highly discounted trade prices, I chose to stick with my existing Yamaha PLG boards and other related synths etc. The company I was at got the rights to sell Sontronics mics, and I met the designer and owner Trevor Coley who is a nice guy and very knowledgeable. Well worth grabbing some of his mics if you can, as they punch well above their price range. Yeah the 90s were a very interesting era for sequencing and recording, as everything was changing so fast from one year to the next. Suddenly most people could afford their own home studio at last, although that has led to the barriers being removed for the rising tide of mediocre non-musicians to flood the market with worthless muzak, and making it harder for the good musicians to be heard, lost in the sea of other releases etc.
#Dancerinthedark I thank Bjork for all that she's done to augment my perception of sight, sound, touch, and thought. Yes there are other entertainers- other creatives; but having witnessed Björk G. I will confess "I've seen it all". #peace #afterthecrest #entropy
Banging my head against the wall reading all the comments from non or amateur musicians that think this where she recorded her her platinum debut album, especially the ones using it as a dig at anyone who "needs" to record in a "fancy" studio like it's some kind of crutch. This is where the songwriting happens morons, then it's produced at an actual studio, or in her case probably a variety of them since the credits on that album include 20 producers/engineers and 15 musicians. Don't take this the wrong way, Bjork is a musical genius, but it's not because her home studio is so quaint, that's just the dumbest take ever.
In 94 I had a PC with win 3. (something) maybe 300 MB hard drive both types of floppy drives, an MPU type sound card full-duplex, a tg100 tone generator, a JV 90 keyboard synth, an Akai s01 sampler, twelve-tone cakewalk DOS sequencer software, an Alesis Sr-16 drum machine and a four-track cassette recorder. I interned and then worked in a major recording studio, so I knew what "pro" level production was supposed to sound like, and had to be very creative just to make an acceptable demo on my home set-up. That was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a ton of obsolete hardware ago. I wish I had Björk's phone number, and all that money I spent on gear.
As an audio engineer I think it would be hilarious if this was actually all that she used to make all of the top notch productions we've heard from her over the years. While all of us our at home imagining having all the gear it must have taken to pull that stuff off back then (realistically a multi million dollar studio, which I'm sure that she actually used) and then she takes you back to her place to see what she made it on and --- cut to this video. 😉 empty apartment with a few mini keyboards and sequencers in the floor. "Wait a minute, you did all that with this? What have I been doing with my life" and then she just replies back with some cute quote about creativity being more important then gear or something like that. I would really think that she was an alien then.
This is proof that you don’t need the world’s most expensive gear, or even the perfect room, to write a great song. You just need the will, the drive and the imagination.
Skinny Bob brother; she’s a great song writer; and very honest... I would bet you, seriously I would, that she wrote a few songs, on that very simple set-up. That little Yamaha qy20(if that’s what it is) was very powerful; and ahead of it’s time
How very interesting. Myself also, started in this very fashion. Having very limited amount of electronics and limited money. I acquired most of my gear when I was in the military. There was a number of guys whom were of the hip hop genre, they had expensive hardware, myself only had a sparse amount of items. I had(still have) a Roland Juno 106 and a Yamaha psr 450 and then a number of items like Bjork has. Some how, this is how I imagined Bjork being.
When it all started. It is important to keep this spirit all along your journey, because that start-up spirit with it's imperfection is what makes music sound life like.
J'adore ce que vous faites Bjork ! Quels émotions vous transmettez ! Merveilleuse énergie ! Prenez soin de vous ( a drummer-composer who have played with the american organist Rhoda Scott and other artists ) prenez soin de vous ! amitiés et admiration ! FAN !
Björk's music reminds me of very beautiful times. I haven't listened to her for such a long time. Really amazing that UA-cam just suggested this channel to me. It's almost scary how well it knows my taste^^. I'll definitely leave a subscription :)
For the sharp eyed that is a Yamaha QY 30 portable sequencer and a Tascan 464. Portastudio. Amazing how little the equipment but the talent that emerges!!!!
It was the studio to record the song demos. Of course the albums were recorded in proper studios, she has string sections, choirs, harps, music box, brass, etc so many different stuff in her albums, obviously not recorded there. And stop discrediting the woman’s songwriting skills, she was one of the first to bring obscure electronic music and modern classical to the pop world. She is a Polar music prize winner ffs. They don’t give that to hacks.
that looks like a tascam 424 MK II? :D remember using one at school at the same time as this. brilliant! i also used an alesis sr16 drum machine that i managed to get a hold of a few years back as well :)
THIS proves that art need not be created in luxury. This damns ALL of the so-called professional recording studios and the 'scienced' behind it. Bjork is a treasure.
Like, yes, art shouldn’t have to be a high-production creation to be good. But Bjork has always utilised professional resources and other’s talents for her work. One person can only do so much, Y’know? Bjork is a fantastic artist regardless. This video just show’s that she (and many other artists) often work with a much more modest setup to formulate their ideas. Today, you can do all that in the bedroom on a phone. But professional music artists will probably take their GarageBand compositions to a studio and hire musicians and engineers to help them. Unless you’re Grimes or something, idk.
i know they go up and also feel surely new and thoughtful - like beautiful animals that ran through the forest when we couldn't. we weren't sure - never were - but know there's a new glow which couldn't come from anywhere else and we feel the strength and the joy and think we'll have a big fat burger with too much American cheese (which isn't cheese *at all* really...)
I haven't been so charmed by a studio since I found out Trancentral (the KLF's studio) was this old house they squatted in where three of the six stove burners didn't work.
This was basically what all home-demo studios were back then. There were no DAWs, Pro Tools was still new and expensive, and the computers that could run it were out of most regular people's price range. So over time you accumulated a Tascam (8-track digital if you had the money or 4-track cassette if you didn't), a few Shure mics, a Yamaha and a drum machine - plus whatever instruments you played. Oh, and a vast and perpetually tangled collection of cords, some of which worked, some of which didn't, and some of which infuriatingly worked only part of the time. And you had it all on the floor because the floor was the only flat surface in the apartment big enough to fit all of it. But it was fun.
@@lalluna9460 No, that's a song by Beck. Bjork had quite a few hits, but Loser wasn't one of them. Bjork, Beck--the names are very similar. I can see where it might cause confusion among the unlettered.
This was just her home studio where she worked on songs and made demos. All of her albums were recorded in a profession studio, with state of the art equipment.
Also: Björk shows residential recording studio in Spain:
ua-cam.com/video/4NLIBGGu8ZA/v-deo.html
#Björk marry me ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
+Christopher Griswold Not learning, inspiring... she could make music today using only those pieces of equipment and still shock us all :)
+Christopher Griswold OH Sorry :) That Language is one of the hardest in the world I think, Im in Finland and still havent got Finnish down yet :) have a nice day
I love you bjork xxxxxxxxxx
@@BjorksMusic Could we please have English subs?
Ah yes, the source of all artists' creativity, THE FLOOR.
Connected to mother Earth indeed.
I'm really creative and I prefer chairs and tables
Brennan Williams too right mate
@@thomsonhomson
True,very true
Can confirm, 90% of my music studio is on the floor.
0:37 absolute classic riff
I met Bjork in 1994, she was walking up our building stairs looking for the people who worked in the studio above us in Kentish Town, i was outside on our landing and she thought i was waiting for her. Shook her hand and pointed her upwards. Made my day.
Is she still pretty as she used to back in the 80s ?
@@duythinh252. Absolutely
Would've made my year
Always love these types of little comments in the UA-cam music sections....
Met her this year. She also stared at me once before in a liquor store for some reason. (Reykjavik is a very small city).
i don't speak Icelandic but i believe what she said was
"i make all my music in an empty flat with only a casio and a 4-track and an effects box. and it's still better than 99% of everything that comes out of the big studios."
and the other woman said "Bjork -- Iceland's Greatest National Treasure"
Even if your post is hilarious, and I mean that, 99% of Björk studio albums came out from big studios. Don't let this almost empty room fool you !
BS
@@philippe597 so this is how 1% of their songs are made
@@philippe597 Well its possible she has a home studio she can produce her albums in now - but back in 1994, a decent home studio was well out of reach for most people. I think there was some rudimentary DAW and tracker software, but it was still pretty lacking.
@@TheLokiBiz check again my post, i talked about her room, not about an home studio, so you and me said the same thing.
She certainly did some demo tapes at home or in a room before the big studio recording
Who is this lady, and why does she keep popping up in my recommended. All I did was watch one video where she said the TV was gonna explode
Lol me too
haha same
she is a musician and these are really old videos of her, I looked it up when I also was confused about her
And don't forget not to trust in poets!
Is a singer.
I love Bjork, a true minimalist, the floor is always the best table and you get lots more space
I seem to find your comments everywhere on UA-cam, always a throwback to my childhood. Hope your family is good bro
i love working on the floor or in bed i just wish it wasn’t so horrible for one’s posture/back 😭
Whenever I feel cluttered in my place I lie down and stare at my ceiling. Then. Sometimes. I clean up. Other times. Most times. I get on with life.
Thats an expensive fucking apartment you can be sure
I met her in Delhi airport back in the 90s. She was on her own, despite her fame then, and wearing a gold wig (to keep a low profile). She saw that I recognised her , and just smiled bashfully
That's rad! I got to speak about creativity and art with David Byrne once in the late 90's. He was completely accommodating, kind, present, and answered my questions as if I too was just someone like him. I'll always remember it. Not even most normal people treated me with that much respect at age 18.
@@SendU2Jesus Now that`s epic. He`s such a god of creativity. What a great memory for you. Perhaps it was quite influential in your life as well. What you say about respect is important. For a young person being listened to by a respected older, the experience is intense and rewarding. That`s good to hear about him, I like him more for it. Take it easy buddy.
@@SendU2Jesus he always struck me as a great human being. glad to see that confirmed.
Actually this was how most people made music at home in the 80s/90s. Four track cassette, keyboard, mic and that Yamaha sound module/sequencer which was state of the art at the time.
I've met her when I was backpacking thorough eastern Europe. She was staying in Ukrainian hostel in small town. She had a big red cat with her and a big bowl of bacon flavored rice popcorn. She shook my hand and said that I have a beautiful horse. Or maybe that was a dream, not sure
Up until ‘horse’ I actually believed you, it seemed plausible… then big LOL.
As soon as you said Eastern Europe and Ukraine I knew it was bullshit
@@conormcnagger4703 I knew it was bullshitting when they said "backpacking"
My uncle worked at a restaurant in sweden in the late 90s. One day, he got to serve björk. She wore a big white fur coat in the middle of the summer and ordered one single glass of milk
idk if this is true but it seems true
Mad as a box of frogs. But truly adorable
Lol
Did she also command to pour the glass of milk onto her fur coat?
Back in 90s she was in front of me one time for a couple of minutes and she was so beautiful
0:35 me trying to make a beat
Lmaooo same
did yo beat done yet ? its been 2 month
Jajaja.
15 years later. Still me trying to make a beat.
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She`s the mother of all the weird girls you cannot help falling in love with.
Then Kate Bush is the grandmother.
She is the weird girl I’m in love with
Nico is the mother of kate bush
@@lemongold709 True. NIco, great-grandmother of weird girls
Dual Citizen ya know, naziism, just quirky girl things lol
Imagine meeting a hot but slightly off chick at the club n you get to her apartment afterwards and this is all the furniture she has
That would heighten my interest
Nigga we’re making an EP that night.
its happened to me but there is also a mattress on the floor
I’m proposing on the spot
She is the one!
Bra, if I visited some chicks apartment for the first time and there is no furniture in and some equipment lazily strewn on the floor I'd probably propose to her on the spot.
And that will be the beginning of a LONG and HARD suffering, because she will drive you NUTS.
I thought you were gonna say she's probably an addict.
Pretty sure that is the back room or spare room of a very large and expensive house that is furnished...
simp
No doubt, cool chicks do weird stuff like this
I got the impression that she was going to play a song with her feet.
Tarantino drooling somewhere
@@Mmxxaamm So do i .... :3
@@Mmxxaamm not just him
Yes; Malmsteen's Arpeggios from Hell.
😂😂😂😂
"Sometimes I look at the veins in my hands and they look like snakes that laugh."
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@@AnyaKittyMeow bitch what?
*things Björk says*
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Sometimes I throw nickels into the oven and it's music! Everything is music!
Gosh she's adorable.
people. this is what she recorded 'demos' with. then she would take those demos into a bigger studio where there were pro engineers and more pro synths and gear.
I get that... But also, the right person can do so so so much with a Yamaha Qy and a cassette deck. Freezepop is a classic example. Whole first two albums are on a Yamaha QY70 alone.
Not always
SHUT UP
PLEASE
JUST SHUT UPOH MY GOD
bjork serving a little look with this crop top and skirt lol
mad hella cute
Yesssss
Why the 'lol' ...serving a look thats standard for Björk
Foreal though
Very *typical* 90's fashion style. Cute.
I remember many years ago, possibly around this time, I saw a piece on tv about bjork and she was walking along the beach programming drums or a sequencer. Was one of the first things I saw that inspired me to want to make music at home.
ua-cam.com/video/ZzgL6QKOReQ/v-deo.html
Lol...is this a joke? Cause man this was funny if you intended to!
@@bullydully7428 Perfect moniker you have there.
Same here, I saw it too. I was amazed by this tinny little box in her hands. I never thought that somebody can create music on a beach, just like that. I remember that after this TV scene, everybody had looked for this sequencer "on the beach". I went to a music shop and I described what I saw, and the seller said : "Oh yeah, you are talking about Björk and the beach scene".
I strongly think that it's the same little sequencer on this video. And even now I still don't know its name ! Many years later, I get my little box to make music.
@@osten_petersson Thanks ! Because of you, now I know the name of her magic box.
LOL! That's Casio SA-10 toy synthesizer ( famous for its DEMO button that played Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go ) . I have the same synth somewhere in my house. Great cheap little thing with surprisingly good sounds.
Casio SA-10 is not a synthesizer... it's just a mini keyboard with tones and rythms (rompler).
mecyjecy a romplestiltskin if I am not mistaken
@@mecyjecy your wrong its an organ ...read the box it comes in
@@pepinillosazucarados6743 I never understand why Casio and Bontempi use the term "organ" for their music toys. Organs are in the church. 😁
@@mecyjecy theyre asians and europeans hahahaha
A room just for creativity.
I could have a room for creativity. I just need another room. And a CS80. I won't grab it with my foot though.
@@phranquepeasant5688 don't mean to be rude but that's why you are not björk, she doesnt care or glorify the tool, cause it's a tool. whole purpose of it life is to serve eh
@@hehhe8761 Can't agree more. :)
@Rising star i do have a knowledge about gear my dude but if you let a moog modular sit at a glass display you are doing something wrong
@Rising star no matter how expensive it is that still is a tool exist only to serve humans made by again the same humans. if you had a money to afford something that expensive i assure you would use it with your feet and throw mucus at it after a while
I had most of that equipment back in the day, and it was ridiculously expensive.
This videos of her old interviews and home videos give me spiritual and soft vibes
Wait! This is the most inspirational thing that ı ever saw! She has literaly noting... But she knows that everything she need is everything she has!
And me still trying to do "acoustic treatment" for my home studio.
All we need is faith in ourselves!
Life bless you Bjork!
...
well there is a big difference between laying down ideas/demo or producing a professional finished track, todays everyone want to produce music at home meaning getting a final product out of a computer, in this perspective acoustic treatment with professional monitor system is paramount, but if the goal is only developing some ideas, a computee with modern daw could do same 10000 times better even with the worse sounding room.
In 1994 it was quite normal getting ideas at home with basic equipment and then moving into a professional studio with big mixing console for recording/mixing, now budgets are usually smaller so most composers have to work at home only with vst.
However beeing creative is the most important thing, so if someone finds himself writing faster with a yamaha qy100 than with a pc no problem...
Personally I've always worked with atari/mac, using cubase logic reason etc..., I will never be fast and inspired with that kind of setup, but it's only a matter of personal taste...
Naber
Makes more creative music with just that than most of us, with full-blown computer recording capabilities, ever will.
wow, after watching your videos i even find you in the comments. thank you for sharing even the life stories others are ashamed to tell. and btw i just watched this short animation and the lead character really looks like (a sad day version of) you specially on 0:29 ua-cam.com/video/GWGbOjlJDkU/v-deo.html
Björk is not from this Planet
I'd disagree
@@reesecunningham7187 You cannot disagree with a fact , you can not like it but not disagree, but it's ok we all have different opinions
@@0000song0000 You're right he does (the animation)
The small rectangle box she was playing is a Yamaha QY22 sequencer, I had one and it was pretty dope for its size and price
I hear it's deleterious to vertical nork offset.
I still have, and use one.
This guy JayB uses a Yamaha QY100 on many of his album releases. Very powerful bit of kit in the right hands. Here are a couple of recent songs but he has loads of others and also tutorials on his channel ua-cam.com/video/KOCId21ti_4/v-deo.htmlsi=bX1FFzQSyH6iqUl5
And to think she only writes all her chord progressions with her toes. Im amazed!
i actually made these sounds all with my toes … only had hold down one note at a time because sequences lol acaerea.bandcamp.com
Absolutely love her. One of the greatest artists ever and will always be in my top 10 favorites.
It is amazing the music you made with that. Congrats on your creativity
I'd love to meet bjork, she is like an extra terrestrial.
I'd love to make love to bjork
@@1stSilence huh ?
@@1stSilence but... the person in the video you linked is Sinead O'Connor-a different person. Are you joking and I'm missing it?
@@1stSilence u drunk
@@1stSilence bjork and sinead is two different person bro...
She is a real artist, her creative mind is unlike anyone else's I have ever known. She see things differently to us normal people, she can see things we never dreamed of. Listen to her music, watch her perform, its angelic.
Incredibly talented and spirited artist.
Casio SA-11 was my first keyboard (was destroyed in a video of my band) and Bjork has one too. She is incredible one of my favorite artist
so simple, so hard core
FeedMeSeymour ...harrrt-core...
Sorry to burst your bubble; she has been using top-notch studios , and an army of engineers, programmers, sound designers, song-writers, musicians and producers throughout all of her career.
@@dosanddonts2919 She's a sound designer. She like program synth. Many of her most intimist song are make alone with her materials. She's not a good musician (not playing very well instruments) but, give her a synth with senquencer and she making you a tracks in few hours.
@@mecyjecyIf she was a good sounddesigner, she wouldnt have to use other sounddesigners.
Just look on discogs.com at the credits of her music and you'll see a whole team of high-profile engineers, programmers, sound designers, song-writers, musicians and producersis involved.
@@dosanddonts2919 Why ? Music is communion of musicians. She's very good sounds designer and works with others sounds designers is not forbiden. She's smart.
It's like you say : "if he's a good guitar's player why he play with many others guitarist"
What you say have no sens.
Ahh, I've played with Casio SA-10 all my childhood. Now I get it why Bjork's music resonates with me :)
i used to have a Yamaha QY-10 back then...I think she's using the QY-20 here, so cool!
And that’s how Grimes was born
I was thinking in Grimes too
Tappa Tappa she is the shit
And Aurora
gross fuck you
Grimes is garbage lol , that's offensive to even compare her modern overproduced unoriginal garbage to Bjork .
Those little Tascam and Fostex 4 tracks were great. I still use mine.
in california we want them so bad these days and theyre either taken or destroyed. if you could build them from parts youd be set
AMAZING ARTEST AND A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. I HAVE BEEN FAN SINCE 1995. THANK YOU FOR THIS.
OK
@@am5790 Soooooo, how are you?
@@franzhaas3712 ooooook?
@@am5790 ARE YOOOOOU VIOLENTLY HAPPY IN YOUR HUMAN BEHAVIOR?
@@franzhaas3712 no need to shout mate...I dont understand your confrontation, dude. have a good night.
love you Bjork.... wow... looking back it was crazy hard to get stuff down.... looks like a 4 track cassette grrr.... i remember the bad old days with 4/8 tracks with drum machines and keyboard sequencers, then an atari 1040st and the first cubase.... today? it's all there in one program with a pile of plug-ins in a laptop.
They were good days in many ways, especially when digital multitracks became affordable at the end of the 1990s. I like having different gear for each thing you need to do, as it makes you think differently and sometimes leads to more creativity, due to trying new combinations of gear and how they are plugged in etc. These days its all on a computer as virtual plugins, that all sound the same, all used through the same interface that forces you to be in a computer frame of mind staring at a screen. Not very human or in the zone so to speak.
@@EgoShredder yep, when i first saw PC based in the mid 90's i thought it was weird sitting at a screen. for those of us that were fortunate to live in the analog age, we got to use things hands on... but i wouldn't go back to analog. i've spliced tape which cut/n/paste has revolutionised that... had to plumb 16tracks which cost a small fortune in leads coz cheap leads can sound cheap. owned outboard gear that can only be used once at a time and if you need another you have to buy another... 16ch of noise reduction and comp/lim, 4 -6 aux send/receive, tape that costs mega and burnswears, tape alignment and azimuth for compatibility with other machines, crosstalk/bleed, smpte code, you name it, it was all a huge effort and ginormous cost... and that was only 16tr... then in 1998 i got the 1st Creamware Pulsar system which is now Scope by Sonic Core. worth a look if you've never heard of it, and ran Cubase VST. i mostly use Vegas Pro and Ableton now. does everything i need.
i still have outboard gear but only use for specific purposes like USB analog mixer, mic pre's or hardware vocoder/talk box.
plug-ins can be good. depends on the user, how it's routed, and whether people understand how to use effectively eg: i love how i can select the freq. of a reverb on a voice and send it to another track for further eq and/or automation. make an audio file of it and make reverse gated type sounds from that to mix in... that took hours in analog.
i run a dual zeon workstation with 32core, 64gig of ram, and M.2 drives. it rocks with unlimited everything... and can do synced multi 4k vid at the same time... that kind of production power was real hard in the days of tape and time code and cost a house... now it's a breeze and 1/100th the cost.
i do like the digital clean sound even if it does sound a bit clinical but it can be warmed. many use an average mic and wonder why they never sit in the mix like the pro's. same with using Audacity vs a Pro audio sequencer.
l love the Waves plugin "OVOX" coz it has a multitude of uses from vox to sub-bass enhancement... check that one out. if there's one plugin to buy it should be pretty high on the list.
@@AVportau I hear ya. Been there done that and I love the sound and experience of an analogue studio, but I prefer digital for convenience and speed. Back in 2004 onwards I used to work for the UK distributor of Creamware products Sonic8 Ltd, and so I am very familiar with all their stuff. Sold other brands too and had to occasionally speak to famous producers on the phone, or even the artist themselves. I've used Cubase since 1990 on the Atari STE, also the Falcon 030 in a pro studio although he got rid of the latter quickly. So in summary, I prefer computers for the audio/MIDI sequencing and mixing/mastering phase, but prefer to not use it for the writing and composing stages. It's a state of mind and consciousness thing, and wearing a different hat for each task.
@@EgoShredder yes, the good old 4tr is handy for writing, i do love the analog sound.
hey, after my last message i thought i'd have a look at some old gear i used to own. i used to have a Roland Jupiter 8 and sold mine with the midi retro fit for $2500 about 25yrs ago... i couldn't believe people are asking $35k to $48k AU for one... sheeze i knew i should've kept it, but i've still got the Yamaha SY77 that replaced it which aint worth much lol.
i glad you know of Pulsar and Scope coz not many do. it was another world back then... now computers are so hardcore and good interfaces available everywhere.
i would've loved to be in the studio when Bjork was making her albums.
@@AVportau SY77 is a classic and a gem of a synth, back when Yamaha had their mojo. The analogue synths were traded in for peanuts in the 90s, and many of us wish we had held on to them now lol. I've gone back to composing on keyboard workstations e.g. MOTIF, and then transferring the song ideas to a DAW for fleshing out and finishing. Computers are great for editing/processing, as that is their best use IMHO.
Even though I had access to the Scope and Pulsar stuff at highly discounted trade prices, I chose to stick with my existing Yamaha PLG boards and other related synths etc. The company I was at got the rights to sell Sontronics mics, and I met the designer and owner Trevor Coley who is a nice guy and very knowledgeable. Well worth grabbing some of his mics if you can, as they punch well above their price range.
Yeah the 90s were a very interesting era for sequencing and recording, as everything was changing so fast from one year to the next. Suddenly most people could afford their own home studio at last, although that has led to the barriers being removed for the rising tide of mediocre non-musicians to flood the market with worthless muzak, and making it harder for the good musicians to be heard, lost in the sea of other releases etc.
Lovely how simple and childlike she was
The Yamaha QY sequencer! I bought one in '96, it costed a fortune, but it was loads of fun.
Get ready world,
I'm off to the Goodwill
I love the fact that Björk too is a cassette-child and fellow user of the Tascam 8 Track Portastudios
"Sometimes I throw nickels in the fireplace and it makes music"
0:09
- And do you think this is a real studio?!
- Yeah! I have no doubt at all!
Even just seeing this setup hurts my back a little.
#Dancerinthedark I thank Bjork for all that she's done to augment my perception of sight, sound, touch, and thought. Yes there are other entertainers- other creatives; but having witnessed Björk G. I will confess "I've seen it all". #peace #afterthecrest #entropy
Banging my head against the wall reading all the comments from non or amateur musicians that think this where she recorded her her platinum debut album, especially the ones using it as a dig at anyone who "needs" to record in a "fancy" studio like it's some kind of crutch. This is where the songwriting happens morons, then it's produced at an actual studio, or in her case probably a variety of them since the credits on that album include 20 producers/engineers and 15 musicians. Don't take this the wrong way, Bjork is a musical genius, but it's not because her home studio is so quaint, that's just the dumbest take ever.
Non musicians can be so stupid! Bless `em!
You're kinda just adding to the sum total of bad vibes with this post though.
Bang on. People don't realise the difference between writing and producing
In 94 I had a PC with win 3. (something) maybe 300 MB hard drive both types of floppy drives, an MPU type sound card full-duplex, a tg100 tone generator, a JV 90 keyboard synth, an Akai s01 sampler, twelve-tone cakewalk DOS sequencer software, an Alesis Sr-16 drum machine and a four-track cassette recorder.
I interned and then worked in a major recording studio, so I knew what "pro" level production was supposed to sound like, and had to be very creative just to make an acceptable demo on my home set-up.
That was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a ton of obsolete hardware ago.
I wish I had Björk's phone number, and all that money I spent on gear.
Its good to know that even rich musicians had limited gear as well that's a tascam 4 track recorder i had one in 1993 as well and still have them.
As an audio engineer I think it would be hilarious if this was actually all that she used to make all of the top notch productions we've heard from her over the years. While all of us our at home imagining having all the gear it must have taken to pull that stuff off back then (realistically a multi million dollar studio, which I'm sure that she actually used) and then she takes you back to her place to see what she made it on and --- cut to this video. 😉 empty apartment with a few mini keyboards and sequencers in the floor. "Wait a minute, you did all that with this? What have I been doing with my life" and then she just replies back with some cute quote about creativity being more important then gear or something like that. I would really think that she was an alien then.
This is proof that you don’t need the world’s most expensive gear, or even the perfect room, to write a great song. You just need the will, the drive and the imagination.
Skinny Bob brother; she’s a great song writer; and very honest... I would bet you, seriously I would, that she wrote a few songs, on that very simple set-up. That little Yamaha qy20(if that’s what it is) was very powerful; and ahead of it’s time
Thank you. Your story to share with us is inspired.
I love how she just drags the keyboard across the floor with her toe
So angelic Bjork. I also had a Yamaha QY20. How come I didn't get famous??? ;)
her voice and her mind are her instruments!
"Never let a poet lie to you." One of my favorite Bjork quotes.
How very interesting. Myself also, started in this very fashion. Having very limited amount of electronics and limited money. I acquired most of my gear when I was in the military. There was a number of guys whom were of the hip hop genre, they had expensive hardware, myself only had a sparse amount of items. I had(still have) a Roland Juno 106 and a Yamaha psr 450 and then a number of items like Bjork has. Some how, this is how I imagined Bjork being.
When it all started. It is important to keep this spirit all along your journey, because that start-up spirit with it's imperfection is what makes music sound life like.
Björk You are the most Beautifulest and the Sweetest and the most Wonderfulest on highest levels and this interview is mega sweet :O
J'adore ce que vous faites Bjork ! Quels émotions vous transmettez ! Merveilleuse énergie ! Prenez soin de vous ( a drummer-composer who have played with the american organist Rhoda Scott and other artists ) prenez soin de vous ! amitiés et admiration ! FAN !
Björk's music reminds me of very beautiful times. I haven't listened to her for such a long time. Really amazing that UA-cam just suggested this channel to me. It's almost scary how well it knows my taste^^. I'll definitely leave a subscription :)
Wow! It's incredible like did the music whit that controller and that home studio in 94 '' björk is awesome!!!
when I saw tascam and her,
I was like, that's my real wife
another one who will commit suicide thinking of her oh god...
@@josedealva4205 not that level yet..
If Bjork is your real wife, then what does your pretend wife think about this?!
That was a Yamaha QY20. I had one, I loved it.
Funnily enough, I mentioned it today for the first time in years.
Weird
Google is listening ;)
baader-meinhof phenomenon right here
..coincidence?
For the sharp eyed that is a Yamaha QY 30 portable sequencer and a Tascan 464. Portastudio. Amazing how little the equipment but the talent that emerges!!!!
*To be picky it's a QY20 ;) I owned one for a while - they're cool things, feel a bit outdated now but a modern version would be a fun thing to have.
And a Casio Sa-20, I think
424
Actually TASCAM. sorry for the typo
I believe It's an SA-11. SA-10 and SA-20 have that long row of purple buttons on the right bottom. SA-11 has red ones.
Много слушал в свое время Бьорк. В то время это была прям альтернатива. Она конечно же молодец.
It was the studio to record the song demos. Of course the albums were recorded in proper studios, she has string sections, choirs, harps, music box, brass, etc so many different stuff in her albums, obviously not recorded there.
And stop discrediting the woman’s songwriting skills, she was one of the first to bring obscure electronic music and modern classical to the pop world. She is a Polar music prize winner ffs. They don’t give that to hacks.
Absolutely LOVE this woman and her spirit live long Icelander~
Ohhhh so I don’t need a million dollar studio to be amazing. This is good news. Thank you .
that looks like a tascam 424 MK II? :D
remember using one at school at the same time as this. brilliant! i also used an alesis sr16 drum machine that i managed to get a hold of a few years back as well :)
MkI, which had the 3-speed motor, though the MKII had fancier location abilities and XLR’s 🤘🏻
THIS proves that art need not be created in luxury. This damns ALL of the so-called professional recording studios and the 'scienced' behind it. Bjork is a treasure.
You do realise even Bjork recorded her albums in studios, right? This was just her "home studio" where she came up with the sounds and compositions...
lol he thinks she recorded her albums there 😅 thats where she writes the songs
Like, yes, art shouldn’t have to be a high-production creation to be good. But Bjork has always utilised professional resources and other’s talents for her work. One person can only do so much, Y’know? Bjork is a fantastic artist regardless. This video just show’s that she (and many other artists) often work with a much more modest setup to formulate their ideas. Today, you can do all that in the bedroom on a phone. But professional music artists will probably take their GarageBand compositions to a studio and hire musicians and engineers to help them. Unless you’re Grimes or something, idk.
she could at least own a table
Great example of, it's not the equipment you have that makes you successful.
Oh, WOW! She has the same TASCAM Portastudio 4-Track recorder I HAVE!! :-D :-D
Me too! I still have my Tascam 424! 😎
& me 🙂
I had that keyboard on the floor (a Casio Casiotone SA-10).
That's the Yamaha QY20 MIDI sequencer she's playing around on
Looks like its got a synth in it, she's changing sounds
@@worthawatch6981 Yes. Include GM expander.
@@worthawatch6981 its got terrible standard sounds and the sequencer is not great either. I have one somewhere if anyone wants it.
Naitra Naitra how much
@@james9076 IDK ~£30 if you are in London send me a DM. I see its the QY22 I got and not the QY20 I doubt they are different though.
i know they go up and also feel surely new and thoughtful - like beautiful animals that ran through the forest when we couldn't. we weren't sure - never were - but know there's a new glow which couldn't come from anywhere else and we feel the strength and the joy and think we'll have a big fat burger with too much American cheese (which isn't cheese *at all* really...)
dios, qué hermosa era
I haven't been so charmed by a studio since I found out Trancentral (the KLF's studio) was this old house they squatted in where three of the six stove burners didn't work.
You don't need fancy equipment just creativity 💕
or a ghost producer...
This was basically what all home-demo studios were back then. There were no DAWs, Pro Tools was still new and expensive, and the computers that could run it were out of most regular people's price range. So over time you accumulated a Tascam (8-track digital if you had the money or 4-track cassette if you didn't), a few Shure mics, a Yamaha and a drum machine - plus whatever instruments you played. Oh, and a vast and perpetually tangled collection of cords, some of which worked, some of which didn't, and some of which infuriatingly worked only part of the time. And you had it all on the floor because the floor was the only flat surface in the apartment big enough to fit all of it. But it was fun.
These were the days before people complained about the lack of features in their music gear.
Pet Shop Boys had over £300k of gear for their first album.
@@humansrants1694Bjork's Debut was also recorded using a lot of high end stuff, this is just how she writes demos for songs.
Brevity is the soul of talent. Few synthesizers, keyboard, speakers and mic 👍
I was half expecting her to start doing it all with her feet- "why else would it be on the floor?"
i made this horrible sounds using my feet if you wanna hear how that would turn out for a laugh … lol acaerea.bandcamp.com
I've still got that 4 track recorder in the attic. It was fun.
Andy M I had just pulled out this 4 track, from the closet, to sell on OfferUp hahahah
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I had that same Yamaha when I was in my teens. Huge fan she is awesome
She grabs the equipment with her foot.😍
WEW LAD
I had that same Casio when I was a kid!
I wonder what songs took shape in this room and how in the world they translated from those MIDI instruments to what the final results sound like.
if the video is from 1994, she was probably working on material for Post
@brokenupbeat she's literally holding a Yamaha Qy midi sequencer, believe it or not midi has a wide range of applications outside of a DAW
@@charizmawolf6490 lol he thought he knew his stuff
@brokenupbeat Midi was invented more than 10 years before the DAW. Every synth (=instrument) since 1981 has had midi implemented.
Considering the army of people involved on every single one of her records I presume its just some very, very spare ideas.
Haha I remember her holding some sort of disk burner at the beach recording short samples of the waves too!
she is beautiful...
Bro i love that synth sound i came up with a melody the moment i heard it. I know i can reproduce the sound but i wish i was born at this time
The cute-as-a-pixie, Indie girlfriend we all want but can't have.
I like watching that video of her tearing out that journalists hair in an enbittered rage!
This would the opposite of a pixie
Ugh total cringe bro
@@TaylorTheTormentor Which part?
@@lalluna9460 No, that's a song by Beck. Bjork had quite a few hits, but Loser wasn't one of them. Bjork, Beck--the names are very similar. I can see where it might cause confusion among the unlettered.
Björk, thank you, takk.
A true artist!
I had one of those Tascam 4 tracks. They were great