björk : vulnicura [VR] 360° (UHD) [4K] [surrounded]

vulnicura: - 2015 - vulnicura - VR - 360° - UHD - 4K - surrounded - 17:10 - info: written by björk : "i am so happy to share finally the complete version of 'vulnicura' [VR] with all the songs now available in one place - it is a digital home for all the virtual reality videos we made , and will be released this friday 6th september, the [VR] videos have been touring museums around the world as part of the 'björk : digital' exhibition , but now that it is possible to put them all out on an accessible gaming platform available to everyone , i am thrilled for people to be able to download them in their own home 'vulnicura' [VR] has been a long journey which started when me and andy thomas huang , started talking about how we wanted to document 'stonemilker' we then filmed it on a 360° camera on a beach in iceland in november, 2014 . we werent sure how to share it because of how few owned [VR] headsets . we started by putting a dozen of headsets in 'rough trade' record shops in brooklyn , and bethnal green , and got really good reactions . i then got offered to do an exhibition in sydney , and by june, 2016 we brought headsets there with 'stonemilker' , 'notget' and 'mouth mantra' and then adding live performance of 'quicksand' with [AR] for tokyo , july, 2016 . the exhibition then travelled to london , montreal , and reykjavík , in the autumn where we added 'black lake' and 'family' . it has also been to los angeles , mexico city , houston , barcelona , moscow , poznan , buenos aires , bogota , and it is currently travelling between 4 cities in brazil , the whole process has been an improvisation , trying to keep faith in formats . it is too easy for musicians to turn pessimistic after cds have evaporated but i wanted to try to have courage to grow along with how 360° sound and vision tech was growing . with every challenge try to turn it into an additional gift for the ideology in the music . these 7 [VR] videos are done with 6 different companies , 4 softwares 6 different directors . early in this journey it became obvious that the process for great 360° sound mastering did not exist so we had to invent our own on the way .... there were dozens of other similar challenges ...... i am someone who absolutely loves music and gets so moved by the sensation of it . when andy proposed filming 'stonemilker' on the beach it was perhaps him tapping into how spatial and connected to nature my songs are . i wrote that song , walking on the same beach and filming it in 360° and sharing it in surround sound seems the most natural way to invite my listeners humbly into my music . the themes for the digital animations were a collaborations of mine with james merry , and i would like to thank him for being my co-pilot for the visual art direction for this whole thing . he is so enormously talented and has had the patience to listen to my endless tales about the psychology and the sensation of healing through my most difficult album to write to date : 'my heartbreak album' . it came to my surprise how metaphysical and "selfhelpy" heartbreak-healing really is . there is a reason why mankind has talked about broken hearts for aeons . you physically feel as a part of your body has fallen apart , has been torn off . there literally is a chestwound that is sown together and healed . when i first was watching [VR] in 2014 , the way i recognized it´s strengths and weaknesses seem to match the album i had in my hands perfectly . when you put the headset on , it is very isolating . heartbreak is . it also gives an escapist relief . which heartbreak needs . but there is also a hidden quality i personally think is going to be the most unexplored in the future , the healing potential of [VR] . the amount of crying that was done into the headsets in sydney , convinced me and james , that we were on the right track , this was something people were experiencing on a visceral level . i would like to thank andrew melchior , for setting up teams and introducing us to a plethora of tech and all the directors to be up for this experiment , andy thomas huang , jesse kanda , nick thornton jones , and warren du preez , inez + vinoodh , our japanese collaborators : dentsu , and rhizomatiks , and stephen malinowski , for his wonderful 3d notation animations also mandy parnell , and martin korth , who pioneered our own take on the 360° mixing and mastering with me , solving and programming endless solutions chris pike , and chris elms , were divine engineers on this profound thanks to analog studios for going above and beyond in building this umbrella app to house everyone's work and also to protools and audiokinetic i hope you enjoy this ...... as always i am grateful for your interest warmthness ! björk" . video courtesy of youtube user VR-360° @    / @vr-360   -    • Björk Vulnicura Virtual Reality 360°   ® 2015. björkoverseas ltd/one little indian ltd. http://bjork.com/ björk overseas ltd. all rights ® reserved © one little indian records.