I love what she said about a single note containing a whole microcosmos. I think it’s true, and it’s why some of us can listen to an hour long drone piece and not get bored.
Oh I didn't know about this series by Björk and BBC, but stumbled upon it now, suggested by the UA-cam recommender algorithm. Nice, I've always loved minimal music a lot, and Mika Vainio and his project Panasonic have been an inspiration to me. Funny, I lived in Barcelona for a while (I'm from Finland, like Mika too), and accidentally walked to a little showroom/record store at a block party I stumbled upon, where Mika was playing a gig with Jimi Tenor. From Barcelona I also bough one of Ø's records (Ø is also Mika's project) called Metri. Thanks for posting this. Keep it simple folks, and appreciate the nuances :)
She´s one of the most interesting and creative human beings ever! Wish I could talk to her sometime. And I hope this world have always at least one of your kind.
"you only need one note" this is my entire career. every song i make is based on this fundamental principle. i like to make a composition on a single fraction of a second sound and then modify it into a pallette of sounds and start from there.
For me, Björk is the greatest musician of all times because her work is a perfect balance of complexity and simplicity. That's why her songs can sound primitive and modern at the same time. What a fucking genius!
I may not be the most novel and innovative stuff here but I like the passion in both Björk and the electronic dude there, I see how they breathe for the music in both their ways. It's beautiful and very innocent.
How many million seller female pop acts gets excited and put huge smile on their faces when they hear a single abstract note or noise.She must be one of the few mainstream pop star who can also dive deeper into the underground world of music.She IS really cool.(and cute ofcourse!).
lol, on a school trip we stopped for food and like all of us started rubbing our fingers around the wine glasses and loads of people got annoyed so some waiters had to come over and have a rant =P
I remember Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic. I remember seeing them at the Roxy in Hollywood sometime around 2000, and it was incredible. I just looked up Mika and learned just now that he has passed away in 2017.
Wow. So like, when it was made in 1997, at that time, the people who we are now in the present time, will not yet exist for another 25 years in the future. Fascinating!
@BPandTyler What he meant is that as long as you keep moving your fingers it won't stop. If you blow an instrument (e.g. woodwinds) you'll run out breath in less than a minute. When you play strings the bow is quite short so you can't just go on with it and if you pluck it will sound for an even shorter amount of time. Pretty much the same thing with percussions, you "hit" them and it goes down from there. But with this glasses you can go on and on and on and on...
2:00 the guitar, played without a pick, is an example of an instrument played by creating vibrations directly with your finger. a Fretless bass would be the best example other than wineglasses, id guess
I believe this is not what he meant. What he means is that with the glass harmonica, the sound comes directly from your fingers, without any kind of accoustic box or amplifier. In addition, when you pluck a guitar string, you start a reaction that makes the string vibrate and the string creates the sound, whereas with the glass harmonica the vibration is generated by your own fingers, that work as a violin bow.
1:54 "I think the thing about the instrument that fascinates me is the fact that the vibrations are set up directly by the player's touch. I can't think of any other instrument where that happens." Bear with me, but I'm going to hit you with a few obscure ones here: classical guitar, banjo, ukulele, double bass, anything you can play pizzicato...
none of those are directed by your touch. Your touch is used to generate a reaction between two differing materials. Like a string under tension vibrating the box it is attached to. Once your finger is no longer present is when the sound interaction happens. Not when your finger is on the string. I know its really a semantics game but without your plucking finger your bridge fingers dont matter. No sound will be generated from you simply holding down a G chord but never strumming. You can initiate that pluck with your bridge fingers but again if you put your fingers on the string it will no longer transmit sound. As in all string instruments your bridge fingers are doing nothing more than changing the lenght of the string but the string itself is what is creating the sound.
man, i'm from turku, finland and i didn't even know this. i wish björk could do an extensive scandinavian tour and come here, too. the sound of glass is heavenly as is also björk's.
Traduction française (approximative ^^) : Minimalistes modernes avec Björk Ces derniers siècles, dans la musique européenne, les gens se sont dirigés très lentement mais très sûrement vers la complexité et l'ingéniosité. Et à la fin, à mon avis, ils créaient de la musique comme de la nourriture pour pensées, pour le cerveau. Puis au milieu de ce siècle, depuis des angles totalement opposés, de la musique pop ou musique folk, peu importe comment vous décidez de l'appeler,
Yo creo que el sonido de la vida en general debe llevarse a cabo en armonia, hay que enfocarse en componerlos adecuadamente para que melodicamente suenen bien.
lol he can't think about an instrument where the vibrations are caused by the player's touch? Err... the guitar mate? :P I saw amiina with sigur ros in 2006, they played glasses too. Was beautiful
Yes, but the fretting hand has complete control of the pitch (by fretting and by using bends) and the tone of the sound (using vibrato, picking at different sections along the string) which all correspond to different vibrational modes. I remember David Dilmour saying thats why he likes guitar so much, it's very connected to the body Thats what i mean by what i said. But sure, technically i suppose the infinite vibration caused by the glasses is different in a way :)
@socaughtwitharms That's a plucked motion. You can't create sound from a guitar just by sliding your fingers up and down the strings, like he's doing with the wine glasses.
the difference this glassy instument sounds that moment when i touching it. This string instruments only sounds after i touched it on that micro moment when i dirrectly touch the actual note mute.
![BJORK - THE SOUTH BANK SHOW DOCUMENTARY 1997 [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O-Z9Zp65Fak/mqdefault.jpg)
6:50 "Public Enemy would kill for this." Just shows how diverse her musical taste really was/is
I love what she said about a single note containing a whole microcosmos. I think it’s true, and it’s why some of us can listen to an hour long drone piece and not get bored.
RIP Mika Vainio.
Thank you for the great music.
"Inside a note is a microcosmos, especially the textures". I am now in love with Bjork.
Björk is and always has been one of my favourite human beings, always been kind of foolishly in love with her smart sweetness...
Kenneth Fiend And FOR ME- I am my favourite human being :)
I love Bjork's accent.
Yeah, I love how it periodically slips from Icelandic into cockney for the odd word here and there. "Play us a bit o' Mozart then...". Haha
Wow it’s amazing how primitive experimental electronics were just a while ago. We have come a long way
i can listen to her for a few life times and never get bored and tired of her.
She has the curiosity of a child and the heart of a strong intelligent woman.
She's also a INFP 😍🥰💖
@@robroycahala-barrow3485 cringe
a strong independent stunning and brave intelligent woman
I recognize those glasses from “All Neon Like”.
RIP Mika Vainio :(
Oh I didn't know about this series by Björk and BBC, but stumbled upon it now, suggested by the UA-cam recommender algorithm. Nice, I've always loved minimal music a lot, and Mika Vainio and his project Panasonic have been an inspiration to me. Funny, I lived in Barcelona for a while (I'm from Finland, like Mika too), and accidentally walked to a little showroom/record store at a block party I stumbled upon, where Mika was playing a gig with Jimi Tenor. From Barcelona I also bough one of Ø's records (Ø is also Mika's project) called Metri.
Thanks for posting this. Keep it simple folks, and appreciate the nuances :)
That happened around the time this film is from, 1997 I believe.
She´s one of the most interesting and creative human beings ever! Wish I could talk to her sometime. And I hope this world have always at least one of your kind.
"you only need one note" this is my entire career. every song i make is based on this fundamental principle. i like to make a composition on a single fraction of a second sound and then modify it into a pallette of sounds and start from there.
I like that approach 🐸
"public enemy would kill for this"
For me, Björk is the greatest musician of all times because her work is a perfect balance of complexity and simplicity. That's why her songs can sound primitive and modern at the same time. What a fucking genius!
Everything vibrates......love Bjork's soul
I may not be the most novel and innovative stuff here but I like the passion in both Björk and the electronic dude there, I see how they breathe for the music in both their ways. It's beautiful and very innocent.
Bjork is 100 years ahead of her time.
Great doc.
And to think this is maybe her fieldwork research for Vespertine.
And later collaboration with Matthew Barney for that movie's soundtrack.
"Shake of the heavy armor of the brain and start with simple things.."
How many million seller female pop acts gets excited and put huge smile on their faces when they hear a single abstract note or noise.She must be one of the few mainstream pop star who can also dive deeper into the underground world of music.She IS really cool.(and cute ofcourse!).
The bravest thing you do in these times, is to be still.
This is incredible, I can't believe glasses sound like this
lol, on a school trip we stopped for food and like all of us started rubbing our fingers around the wine glasses and loads of people got annoyed so some waiters had to come over and have a rant =P
bjork + arvo part = the height of musical imagination and artistry.
2:46
"Ow do u disside wha ow much wata gows in each one"
I always laugh when bjork turns into a cockney
I remember Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic. I remember seeing them at the Roxy in Hollywood sometime around 2000, and it was incredible. I just looked up Mika and learned just now that he has passed away in 2017.
"Shake off that armour of the brain." 💓
This programme is now 20 years old..
Wow. So like, when it was made in 1997, at that time, the people who we are now in the present time, will not yet exist for another 25 years in the future. Fascinating!
For someone who doesn't speak English as a native language, listening to Bjork speak it,it´s beautiful, every word as she pronounces , it is so cute
Björk speaks Björkian language.
very pretty! i agree towards electronic sounds...pretty is the right word!
I love how bjork also posted this video on her FB. It seems she also did research her self on youtube 😊😊
I absolutely LOVE these two videos. Thanks!
She should teach at a university. Seriously.
She is a real TEACHER because she can motivate and inspire people.
@@zurichsee706 that literally made no sense. You should go to university.
Oh, unbelievably enchanting.
God, there's just so much about music they don't teach you at school. I'm actually learning from this!
what a fantastic line to end on.
@BPandTyler What he meant is that as long as you keep moving your fingers it won't stop. If you blow an instrument (e.g. woodwinds) you'll run out breath in less than a minute. When you play strings the bow is quite short so you can't just go on with it and if you pluck it will sound for an even shorter amount of time. Pretty much the same thing with percussions, you "hit" them and it goes down from there. But with this glasses you can go on and on and on and on...
2:00 the guitar, played without a pick, is an example of an instrument played by creating vibrations directly with your finger. a Fretless bass would be the best example other than wineglasses, id guess
I believe this is not what he meant. What he means is that with the glass harmonica, the sound comes directly from your fingers, without any kind of accoustic box or amplifier. In addition, when you pluck a guitar string, you start a reaction that makes the string vibrate and the string creates the sound, whereas with the glass harmonica the vibration is generated by your own fingers, that work as a violin bow.
and then the sirens in the background....
1:54 "I think the thing about the instrument that fascinates me is the fact that the vibrations are set up directly by the player's touch. I can't think of any other instrument where that happens." Bear with me, but I'm going to hit you with a few obscure ones here: classical guitar, banjo, ukulele, double bass, anything you can play pizzicato...
He means “stroke” or contact, I think. So not quite as naive as your comment suggests.
none of those are directed by your touch. Your touch is used to generate a reaction between two differing materials. Like a string under tension vibrating the box it is attached to. Once your finger is no longer present is when the sound interaction happens. Not when your finger is on the string.
I know its really a semantics game but without your plucking finger your bridge fingers dont matter. No sound will be generated from you simply holding down a G chord but never strumming. You can initiate that pluck with your bridge fingers but again if you put your fingers on the string it will no longer transmit sound.
As in all string instruments your bridge fingers are doing nothing more than changing the lenght of the string but the string itself is what is creating the sound.
Men this documental is treal!!! I LOVE It namaste Haribol
unf....ingbelievable...of course beautiful!
This program is very surreal..but amazingly beautiful. Michael Glass got nuthin on these minimalists lol
that glass harmonic thing is bananas
man, i'm from turku, finland and i didn't even know this. i wish björk could do an extensive scandinavian tour and come here, too. the sound of glass is heavenly as is also björk's.
actually this was from a 1998 TV show : imdb.com/title/tt0400769/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I would love to hear her do audio books
anyone else notice the comparable change in accent when she's interviewing the scottish glass player as opposed to arvo part? o.O
I find her so unusually attractive and cute. Plus you can tell she's smart and very passionate. God, I love Bjork!
That's one phat cigarbox!! 😍
Lovely noises 🙏
3:05 "yeah this is actually hotdog water"
sirens on the background Barcelona never changes
Björk speaks Björkian language.
Skyrim accent!
Traduction française (approximative ^^) :
Minimalistes modernes
avec
Björk
Ces derniers siècles, dans la musique européenne, les gens se sont dirigés très lentement mais très sûrement vers la complexité et l'ingéniosité. Et à la fin, à mon avis, ils créaient de la musique comme de la nourriture pour pensées, pour le cerveau.
Puis au milieu de ce siècle, depuis des angles totalement opposés, de la musique pop ou musique folk, peu importe comment vous décidez de l'appeler,
Yo creo que el sonido de la vida en general debe llevarse a cabo en armonia, hay que enfocarse en componerlos adecuadamente para que melodicamente suenen bien.
Pan Sonic live was something.
I fancy that glass harmonica player!
これすごいなぁ。ミニマリスト好き。
I LOVE HER
Sounds like something that would have fit perfectly in Interstellar
She is the most desirable person in the world. I love everything she says.
@1:54 Classical guitar
You pluck a guitar string tho.
This here folks is one of planet earths true living legends , a genius musically the likes of Mozart
superb
She's like the Mr. Rogers of music in terms of curiosity
thanx.. thanx.. thanx.. thanx..
lol he can't think about an instrument where the vibrations are caused by the player's touch?
Err... the guitar mate? :P
I saw amiina with sigur ros in 2006, they played glasses too. Was beautiful
Такая очаровашка)) особенно когда крутит ручку генератора.
Great video.
Awesome...
She listened to this 3:18 and was like ALL NEON LIKE
her and madonna advertise them with "A Bedtime Story." Why was I upset? because everyone was harassing me.
Love
6:43 dice: 'Re loco' !
RIP _MIKA :(
Love you Bjork! Your accent is SO Russian!!!
Solo Arts Icelandic
Nope
i loved your smile XD
Yes, but the fretting hand has complete control of the pitch (by fretting and by using bends) and the tone of the sound (using vibrato, picking at different sections along the string) which all correspond to different vibrational modes. I remember David Dilmour saying thats why he likes guitar so much, it's very connected to the body
Thats what i mean by what i said. But sure, technically i suppose the infinite vibration caused by the glasses is different in a way :)
i wish this was subtitled so i can share it with friends that don't speak english
such a beutiful track in the end, wow. ua-cam.com/video/MixrSzIa264/v-deo.html
anywhere I can access the whole episode? :(
ua-cam.com/video/cOoqLhNqXDw/v-deo.html
aw mika...
Stylus RMS still alive!!!!
@socaughtwitharms That's a plucked motion. You can't create sound from a guitar just by sliding your fingers up and down the strings, like he's doing with the wine glasses.
Heroine.
the acoustic version of bowed glass pad
Amo el acento de bjork
I like spiritual music. My favorite music comes in the form of the dirge.
Благодарю 🙏🏾
will marry the girl who makes the same face at 5.01 when hearing that sound
@tHoM0r the vibration is caused by plucking a guitar, not by touching it
Possible by tapping.
Why she doesn´t has collaborate with this people?
We need a link from here to part 2, to Arvo Part :)
like it!!
1:58 guitar or lute or harp works by directly touch too. :)
the difference this glassy instument sounds that moment when i touching it. This string instruments only sounds after i touched it on that micro moment when i dirrectly touch the actual note mute.
It's Princess Leah!!!!!
Gotta love the overexaggerated accent Björk does.
3:21 i was there in November :D