![]() ![]() However, with this being 15 years ago, we still had to manipulate the face to gain a more accurate likeness. Swan Björk – In our scanning session with the artist, she recreated a similar expression to the famous photos of her at the 2001 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. A thin, clear shell was then produced using the data, to adorn the clothes and music box resting on her lap. Vespertine Clear Björk – The whole body scan we captured had to be tweaked in order to get the perfect pose. There were three special mannequins that involved different techniques.ĭebut Miniature Björk – A third scale doll was digitally modelled and printed for displaying a miniature jumper and skirt replica. The heads would then be blended onto existing mannequin bodies. These were then CNC’d in clay and tweaked, before the moulding and casting process. The process began with a digital scan of the singer to provide us with base data that could be manipulated to suit the clients needs. The streamlined production offers fewer embellishments than on later albums, but there's a different set of pleasurers to be found in music that can achieve so much with a concise pallet of carefully chosen elements.The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the controversial artist’s projects and her eight full-length albums to chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes.Īsylum was chosen to provide a series of Björk mannequin heads and bodies, specifically modified for the various costumes and dresses that were to be displayed. Tracks like "Venus As a Boy" do not contain an ounce of fat - they have a definite thesis statement to make and they present it efficiently. She's an exuberant creative force here with synapses firing at full capacity. So a lot of the time the term "dated" is really inconsistently and arbitrarily assigned.ĭebut works as both a time capsule of 90s electronic music culture AND as a showcase of Bjork's laser-focused songwriting skills. ![]() Beyonce just made an album with some very 90s sounding tracks on it, and I imagine some of her fans who have embraced this would have previously turned their nose up at actual 90s dance music. Then again, there are a lot of younger artists who are going to great lengths to make their music sound intentionally dated (Ultraflex being a good example, or CFCF) so its hard to generalize here. And they are free to think that, of course, but it's also clear they just haven't done their homework. Stuff from the 90s (especially electronic music) feels more niche because it hasn't had as long to seep into the general public yet, just like how even normies are now conditioned to perceive 1950s & 60s mid-century modern style as "cool" but 80s pomo is still "tacky." I love how early Aphex Twin is early-90s timestamped but someone younger may just find it cheap sounding. Furthermore it feels like a really flimsy criticism because eventually all music acquires value as an artifact of an era, like how so much 1970s music sounds great now specifically because it "sounds like the 70s." "Dancing Queen" for example is inextricably tied to its decade, with that lush disco production encapsulating all the unashamed naivety and excess of those times. All it means is that an artist was inspired to create something that spoke to the spirit of the times and captured the sound of an era, only to have successive generations frame this as a weakness because they aren't able to imagine what it would have been like to experience the music in its original context. Criticizing something for sounding "dated" is kind of a useless and short-sighted take. ![]()
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