{"id":2017447,"date":"2026-06-29T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2017447"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:35:00","slug":"bjork-on-nature-new-music-and-working-with-ai-im-a-digital-craftswoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2017447","title":{"rendered":"Bj\u00f6rk on nature, new music and working with AI: \u2018I\u2019m a digital craftswoman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-75-2400-1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448507.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article longread\">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/music\/article\/70555\/1\/a-phone-call-bjork-about-nature-ai-new-music-iceland\" data-article-id=\"70555\">\n<header 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class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Bj\u00f6rk on nature, new music and working with AI: \u2018I\u2019m a <span class=\"nowrap\">digital craftswoman\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Between hosting a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland and building her long-awaited 11th studio album, Bj\u00f6rk calls in to dispel a misconception about <span class=\"nowrap\">her work<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-29T15:35:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"29 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"29\">29,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\">Music<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/feature\">Feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-06-29T15:35:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"29 June 2026\"><span class=\"month\">June<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"29\">29,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/solomonpacemccarrick\"><br \/>\nSolomon PM<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-13-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Bj\u00f6rk, Echolalia <span class=\"nowrap\">exhibition (2026)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/0\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ancestress_2\" class=\"img\" height=\"1407\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2110-1407\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448520.jpg\" width=\"2110\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/1\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ancestress_1\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448519.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/2\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"orkestral-2\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448518.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/3\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"orkestral-4\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448517.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/4\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nervebloom-4\" class=\"img\" height=\"1778\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2667-1778\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448513.jpg\" width=\"2667\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/gallery\/37189\/5\/bjork-echolalia-exhibition-2026\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nervebloom-1\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448508.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 13 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cSorry, I\u2019m on a tangent now, the coffee is kicking in,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/bjork\">Bj\u00f6rk<\/a>, calling in from a cabin in the Icelandic countryside. In fact, she is about three tangents and ten minutes away from my original \u2013 and, for that matter, first \u2013 question. Her words arrive like wind on a cliff-face, rapidly picking up speed and whipping in new directions as she lets herself get carried away by her thoughts. All of this, of course, is to be expected \u2013 across her 40-year-career, Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s creativity has been as mercurial as Mother Nature herself \u2013 but this time in particular she has something she wants to get off her chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk has called, in her words, to \u201cprevent a misunderstanding\u201d. It\u2019s a small, but \u2013 to her \u2013 vital misconception that has emerged in the wake of her new exhibition, <\/span><em><span>Echolalia<\/span><\/em><span>, at the National Gallery of Iceland, which renders three of her songs (two old and one new) in both digital and physical space, alongside a collection of masks created with long-time visual collaborator James Merry. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing interviews in Iceland and they\u2019re all like, \u2018Oh, so you\u2019re an artist now? A visual artist?\u2019 And I\u2019m like no! Absolutely not!\u201d she says with gusto, panting as she plods through the wilderness around her cabin. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to be an artist. I\u2019m still a musician. I think I\u2019m happy with the creative director-slash-worldbuilder title; that\u2019s more what I am, and quite common with musicians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCreative director\u201d and \u201cworldbuilder\u201d are titles Bj\u00f6rk has settled on recently, after adjusting to the art world\u2019s practice of crediting every contributor on gallery walls. \u201cIt was really interesting having to credit everything because we, in the music world, have never really done that,\u201d she says, explaining that she and Merry have long worked through a fluid, \u201cde-ego\u201d creative process that doesn\u2019t lend itself to clearly defined roles. \u201cIt was tricky analysing it all and finding titles for myself. Then [FKA] twigs, Eartheater and Rosal\u00eda all came out with albums and I was like, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re the same!\u2019 It\u2019s like the traditional singer-songwriter role: very often you\u2019d go and make a video with someone and you\u2019d sort of become a creative director with them. We just never used to call it that in the 90s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"104833d7-9e7a-48e6-904c-b47800fc33c3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448514.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.78\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Echolalia, Bjork\" class=\"img\" height=\"1688\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448514.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Room three: <span class=\"nowrap\">Sorrowful Soil<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Bj\u00f6rk\/The National Gallery <span class=\"nowrap\">of Iceland<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>For Bj\u00f6rk, now 60 years old and ten albums deep into her career, these titles capture something fundamental about how musicians create. \u201cAll my albums have super strict&#8230;\u201d she trails off, grasping for words once more. \u201cFor example, my last album, <em>Fossora<\/em>, was dark green, dark red mushrooms, nocturnal winter, you know? Each album has a list of references. On a podcast in Covid I called it \u2018sonic symbolism\u2019, which sounds kind of pretentious, but it basically means how musicians work. All the visuals come from a sound first.\u201d Elsewhere in the exhibition, the scores for <em>Fossora<\/em> tracks \u201cAncestress\u201d and \u201cSorrowful Soil\u201d have been translated into knitted textiles stretching more than 40 metres in length.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Outside of this vital misconception, though, how has the exhibition been received? \u201cTo be honest, I haven\u2019t been!\u201d Bj\u00f6rk answers with a mischievous, fae-like giggle. \u201cI just moved on. I was so excited to get back to making music again that I just went straight to that.\u201d She is referring to her currently unnamed 11th album set to release next year \u2013 she isn\u2019t ready to speak about it just yet, but it\u2019s around halfway complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve become a digital craftswoman, more and more elaborate in my idiosyncrasies\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Still, one small window into Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s new musical direction can be found in the <\/span><em><span>Echolalia<\/span><\/em><span> exhibition. There, \u201cNerve Bloom\u201d \u2013 a so-called \u201cremix\u201d of the version set to appear on the album \u2013 plays alongside spectral, horse-like figures grazing on digital screens. In fan-recorded videos of the installation shared online, Bj\u00f6rk repeats the refrain \u201c<em>I bow<\/em>\u201d, the words stretched through her signature idiosyncratic delivery. \u201cI\u2019m as idiosyncratic as they come, I like irregular things and prime numbers,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk says when I bring up the track. \u201cI was in a pretty merciless band when I was 16 here in Iceland. It was part of the jazz-punk movement and we never did anything in 4\/4 [time signature] \u2013 everything was prime numbers. I think I was baptised for life then. Now, with computers, you can go into even more elaborate irregularities. I\u2019ve used [music software] Sibelius for 26 years, which is insane; it\u2019s like second nature to me. I spend weeks on each arrangement making it as irregular as I can. I\u2019ve become a digital craftswoman, more and more elaborate in my idiosyncrasies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk views these idiosyncrasies as a more accurate reflection of the natural world, which rarely flows in straight lines and at right angles. \u201cI was brought up in Reykjavik and walked a long distance to school in the mornings,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThere was a lot of nature and crazy weather so, for me, that\u2019s normal. To be put in a four-four box, like a city, is abnormal \u2013 but that\u2019s just me, thank God we\u2019re all allowed to be different!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bjork\/comments\/1tsvj6f\/nerve_bloom_full_recording\/\">nerve bloom &#8211; full recording<\/a><br \/> by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/prodorprods\/\">u\/prodorprods<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bjork\/\">bjork<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Our conversation is aptly timed. In recent years, technology and nature have seemed more incompatible than ever, their relationship strained by an age in which AI is increasingly scrutinised for its environmental costs and tech CEOs fantasise about transcending the natural world instead of existing within it. Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s work, however, offers a parallel future: one in which music software like Sibelius can help express the beautiful irregularities of nature, and computer-generated artwork can invite reflection on the human experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWith humans and tools, the original purpose was to be an extension of themselves, to express themselves,\u201d says Bj\u00f6rk. \u201cIn the beginning, it was always clumsy \u2013 you had a knife, the wheel, fire, whatever it was \u2013 and then it got more refined and complex. That\u2019s technology, too \u2013 they\u2019re clumsy at first and you have to go through the moral question, the justice question, the \u2018does-it-have-a-soul\u2019 question, and figure out a way to put meaning into it. We always go through the, \u2018Oh there will never be a soul again!\u2019 doom-and-gloom-style prophecy, but I think we all have to figure that out as we go.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk uses \u201cNerve Bloom\u201d as an example, which appears in the exhibition alongside AI-powered visuals created with painter Natalia Kleszczewska and computer programmer Natalie Liu. \u201cWe could have just pressed a button with AI and created it in one minute, but we decided not to do that,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt took us eight months to do and every little scene was really worked on and bespoke, like moulding. Now, I\u2019m not saying that the solution to everything about AI is to make sure you\u2019ve spent eight months and then it\u2019s OK! What I mean is that you have to put meaning into it. Overall, AI isn\u2019t that good, you have to look at it and change it and move it to get something interesting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"1QRIgD1bAjI\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"900\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QRIgD1bAjI\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"1600\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>As Bj\u00f6rk speaks, I\u2019m reminded of a lyric on heartfelt <\/span><em><span>Fossora <\/span><\/em><span>track \u201cAncestress\u201d. Eulogising her late mother in line with Iceland\u2019s indigenous funeral traditions and concluding with the words \u201c<\/span><em><span>I am my mother\u2019s hope-keeper<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. Given all we\u2019ve spoken about, then, where does Bj\u00f6rk find hope today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDefinitely in nature,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk answers slowly, the wind whistling down the phone line. \u201cEven though I live in a cosmopolitan European city like Reykjavik, I live on the beach and try to walk for an hour every other day-ish. All these epidemics of our age \u2013 isolation, loneliness, too much phone use \u2013 I feel like if you can just walk for an hour, they won\u2019t actually feel that bad. I\u2019m not saying it can solve all the world\u2019s problems, but a good 60 per cent! Then, you can deal with the 40 per cent that\u2019s left\u2026 that\u2019s where I find my hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And, with a courteous \u201cthank you for being curious,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk is gone. The phone line beeps shut and the wavelength on the audio recorder in front of me flatlines. Despite all her ruminations on creative direction, world-building and \u2018sonic symbolism\u2019, I\u2019m left feeling more lost for words to describe Bj\u00f6rk than ever. She truly seemed to call in from another world \u2013 and, for that brief moment, hers seemed more real than mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Echolalia\u00a0<em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.listasafn.is\/en\/art\/exhibitions\/bjork\/\">on show now<\/a> at the National Gallery of Iceland until September 20. 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In fact, she is about three tangents and ten minutes away from my original \u2013 and, for that matter, first \u2013 question. Her words arrive like wind on a cliff-face, rapidly picking up speed and whipping in new directions as she lets herself get carried away by her thoughts. All of this, of course, is to be expected \u2013 across her 40-year-career, Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s creativity has been as mercurial as Mother Nature herself \u2013 but this time in particular she has something she wants to get off her chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk has called, in her words, to \u201cprevent a misunderstanding\u201d. It\u2019s a small, but \u2013 to her \u2013 vital misconception that has emerged in the wake of her new exhibition, <\/span><em><span>Echolalia<\/span><\/em><span>, at the National Gallery of Iceland, which renders three of her songs (two old and one new) in both digital and physical space, alongside a collection of masks created with long-time visual collaborator James Merry. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing interviews in Iceland and they\u2019re all like, \u2018Oh, so you\u2019re an artist now? A visual artist?\u2019 And I\u2019m like no! Absolutely not!\u201d she says with gusto, panting as she plods through the wilderness around her cabin. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to be an artist. I\u2019m still a musician. I think I\u2019m happy with the creative director-slash-worldbuilder title; that\u2019s more what I am, and quite common with musicians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCreative director\u201d and \u201cworldbuilder\u201d are titles Bj\u00f6rk has settled on recently, after adjusting to the art world\u2019s practice of crediting every contributor on gallery walls. \u201cIt was really interesting having to credit everything because we, in the music world, have never really done that,\u201d she says, explaining that she and Merry have long worked through a fluid, \u201cde-ego\u201d creative process that doesn\u2019t lend itself to clearly defined roles. \u201cIt was tricky analysing it all and finding titles for myself. Then [FKA] twigs, Eartheater and Rosal\u00eda all came out with albums and I was like, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re the same!\u2019 It\u2019s like the traditional singer-songwriter role: very often you\u2019d go and make a video with someone and you\u2019d sort of become a creative director with them. We just never used to call it that in the 90s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"104833d7-9e7a-48e6-904c-b47800fc33c3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448514.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.78\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Echolalia, Bjork\" class=\"img\" height=\"1688\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448514.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Room three: <span class=\"nowrap\">Sorrowful Soil<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Bj\u00f6rk\/The National Gallery <span class=\"nowrap\">of Iceland<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>For Bj\u00f6rk, now 60 years old and ten albums deep into her career, these titles capture something fundamental about how musicians create. \u201cAll my albums have super strict&#8230;\u201d she trails off, grasping for words once more. \u201cFor example, my last album, <em>Fossora<\/em>, was dark green, dark red mushrooms, nocturnal winter, you know? Each album has a list of references. On a podcast in Covid I called it \u2018sonic symbolism\u2019, which sounds kind of pretentious, but it basically means how musicians work. All the visuals come from a sound first.\u201d Elsewhere in the exhibition, the scores for <em>Fossora<\/em> tracks \u201cAncestress\u201d and \u201cSorrowful Soil\u201d have been translated into knitted textiles stretching more than 40 metres in length.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Outside of this vital misconception, though, how has the exhibition been received? \u201cTo be honest, I haven\u2019t been!\u201d Bj\u00f6rk answers with a mischievous, fae-like giggle. \u201cI just moved on. I was so excited to get back to making music again that I just went straight to that.\u201d She is referring to her currently unnamed 11th album set to release next year \u2013 she isn\u2019t ready to speak about it just yet, but it\u2019s around halfway complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve become a digital craftswoman, more and more elaborate in my idiosyncrasies\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Still, one small window into Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s new musical direction can be found in the <\/span><em><span>Echolalia<\/span><\/em><span> exhibition. There, \u201cNerve Bloom\u201d \u2013 a so-called \u201cremix\u201d of the version set to appear on the album \u2013 plays alongside spectral, horse-like figures grazing on digital screens. In fan-recorded videos of the installation shared online, Bj\u00f6rk repeats the refrain \u201c<em>I bow<\/em>\u201d, the words stretched through her signature idiosyncratic delivery. \u201cI\u2019m as idiosyncratic as they come, I like irregular things and prime numbers,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk says when I bring up the track. \u201cI was in a pretty merciless band when I was 16 here in Iceland. It was part of the jazz-punk movement and we never did anything in 4\/4 [time signature] \u2013 everything was prime numbers. I think I was baptised for life then. Now, with computers, you can go into even more elaborate irregularities. I\u2019ve used [music software] Sibelius for 26 years, which is insane; it\u2019s like second nature to me. I spend weeks on each arrangement making it as irregular as I can. I\u2019ve become a digital craftswoman, more and more elaborate in my idiosyncrasies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk views these idiosyncrasies as a more accurate reflection of the natural world, which rarely flows in straight lines and at right angles. \u201cI was brought up in Reykjavik and walked a long distance to school in the mornings,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThere was a lot of nature and crazy weather so, for me, that\u2019s normal. To be put in a four-four box, like a city, is abnormal \u2013 but that\u2019s just me, thank God we\u2019re all allowed to be different!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bjork\/comments\/1tsvj6f\/nerve_bloom_full_recording\/\">nerve bloom &#8211; full recording<\/a><br \/> by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/prodorprods\/\">u\/prodorprods<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/bjork\/\">bjork<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Our conversation is aptly timed. In recent years, technology and nature have seemed more incompatible than ever, their relationship strained by an age in which AI is increasingly scrutinised for its environmental costs and tech CEOs fantasise about transcending the natural world instead of existing within it. Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s work, however, offers a parallel future: one in which music software like Sibelius can help express the beautiful irregularities of nature, and computer-generated artwork can invite reflection on the human experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWith humans and tools, the original purpose was to be an extension of themselves, to express themselves,\u201d says Bj\u00f6rk. \u201cIn the beginning, it was always clumsy \u2013 you had a knife, the wheel, fire, whatever it was \u2013 and then it got more refined and complex. That\u2019s technology, too \u2013 they\u2019re clumsy at first and you have to go through the moral question, the justice question, the \u2018does-it-have-a-soul\u2019 question, and figure out a way to put meaning into it. We always go through the, \u2018Oh there will never be a soul again!\u2019 doom-and-gloom-style prophecy, but I think we all have to figure that out as we go.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bj\u00f6rk uses \u201cNerve Bloom\u201d as an example, which appears in the exhibition alongside AI-powered visuals created with painter Natalia Kleszczewska and computer programmer Natalie Liu. \u201cWe could have just pressed a button with AI and created it in one minute, but we decided not to do that,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt took us eight months to do and every little scene was really worked on and bespoke, like moulding. Now, I\u2019m not saying that the solution to everything about AI is to make sure you\u2019ve spent eight months and then it\u2019s OK! What I mean is that you have to put meaning into it. Overall, AI isn\u2019t that good, you have to look at it and change it and move it to get something interesting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"1QRIgD1bAjI\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"900\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QRIgD1bAjI\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"1600\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>As Bj\u00f6rk speaks, I\u2019m reminded of a lyric on heartfelt <\/span><em><span>Fossora <\/span><\/em><span>track \u201cAncestress\u201d. Eulogising her late mother in line with Iceland\u2019s indigenous funeral traditions and concluding with the words \u201c<\/span><em><span>I am my mother\u2019s hope-keeper<\/span><\/em><span>\u201d. Given all we\u2019ve spoken about, then, where does Bj\u00f6rk find hope today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDefinitely in nature,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk answers slowly, the wind whistling down the phone line. \u201cEven though I live in a cosmopolitan European city like Reykjavik, I live on the beach and try to walk for an hour every other day-ish. All these epidemics of our age \u2013 isolation, loneliness, too much phone use \u2013 I feel like if you can just walk for an hour, they won\u2019t actually feel that bad. I\u2019m not saying it can solve all the world\u2019s problems, but a good 60 per cent! Then, you can deal with the 40 per cent that\u2019s left\u2026 that\u2019s where I find my hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And, with a courteous \u201cthank you for being curious,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk is gone. The phone line beeps shut and the wavelength on the audio recorder in front of me flatlines. Despite all her ruminations on creative direction, world-building and \u2018sonic symbolism\u2019, I\u2019m left feeling more lost for words to describe Bj\u00f6rk than ever. She truly seemed to call in from another world \u2013 and, for that brief moment, hers seemed more real than mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Echolalia\u00a0<em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.listasafn.is\/en\/art\/exhibitions\/bjork\/\">on show now<\/a> at the National Gallery of Iceland until September 20. Catch a peek inside the exhibition in the gallery above.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/70555\/1\/a-phone-call-bjork-about-nature-ai-new-music-iceland&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-75-2400-1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/8\/1448507.jpg&#8221;] DateInMeta\u00a0 29,\u00a0 2026 Music \/ Feature Bj\u00f6rk on nature, new music and working with AI: \u2018I\u2019m a digital craftswoman\u2019 Between hosting a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland and building her long-awaited 11th studio album, Bj\u00f6rk calls in to dispel a misconception about her work June\u00a0 29,\u00a0 2026 MusicFeature June\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,76],"class_list":["post-2017447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-dazeddigital-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}