http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/artists/b/bjork/plus/page1.shtml

BBC Online  2001-07-29

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"On the couch..."


   Björk tells her favourite show about her single, 'Hidden Place', and
   new album, 'Vespertine'.


Björk on the video for 'Hidden Place':
I'm going to do a video to Hidden Place with people who I've got a 
really gorgeous relationship with right now. It's very fertile right 
now, so of course you have to be grateful and act on it. It's 
photographers and It's their first video. They are really well-known 
photographers. They are a Dutch couple and they live here in New York.

Björk on her new album 'Vespertine':
Vespertine is an album that happens in a cocoon, like hibernation, and 
it's almost like a winter world where people are very introvert. It's a 
very privately euphoric sort of album.

Björk on the internet:
I'm really excited about the internet at the moment and I'm really 
excited by the limitations of downloading. Humans have been making music 
for 2000 years and it doesn't matter what challenge you give them, with 
folk music or popular music or whatever, they always beat it.

100 years ago it was the radio and they just ended up making songs that 
sounded good on the radio. And then they made music that sounds good on 
a CD, and now they are making music that sounds good on a crap laptop 
that is downloaded. Also, the quality of the picture is already 
influencing people. I think quite a lot of the beats like Destiny's 
Child, they already sound like they are downloaded on the internet. They 
are sort of stuttering and it is like there is no oxygen there, like in 
a room. Sound-wise it is sort of vacuum-packed.

For someone like me, who has been doing music since I was a kid, the 
fact you can write a tune and do a visual with your digital video camera 
and put it on the net that evening. You don't have to wait for two 
years!

Björk on making net influenced music:
To a certain degree, the acoustic musical instruments I used are the 
only ones that sound good when they are downloaded. So you have less 
tools to play with again. It's sort of punk in a way. I think 
limitations are a big turn-on for creative people.