Bjork - Modern Minimalists pt 1

This was part of a 1997 BBC show.

[@kgbinfo]

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.

[@KP-ul2ep]

I love Bjork's accent.

[@GideonKSays]

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

[@AM-ui9mc]

Wow it’s amazing how primitive experimental electronics were just a while ago. We have come a long way

[@gab_luc]

"public enemy would kill for this"

[@yojimbo187187]

6:50 "Public Enemy would kill for this." Just shows how diverse her musical taste really was/is

[@hojojenks]

I recognize those glasses from “All Neon Like”.

[@djsize7]

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.

[@DaniDogenigt]

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.

[@witaradanu1442]

I love how bjork also posted this video on her FB. It seems she also did research her self on youtube 😊😊

[@ifyouarenotdead]

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

[@richardgardiner3824]

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...

[@commonasmuck1234]

He means “stroke” or contact, I think. So not quite as naive as your comment suggests.

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

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.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

This programme is now 20 years old..

[@anodyne57]

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!

[@BlowBackBenny]

2:46 "Ow do u disside wha ow much wata gows in each one" I always laugh when bjork turns into a cockney

[@taz80]

I absolutely LOVE these two videos. Thanks!

[@mitzmic]

@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...

[@royalzaheer7]

that glass harmonic thing is bananas

[@54spiritedwill54]

This is incredible, I can't believe glasses sound like this

[@VerilyMusic]

what a fantastic line to end on.

[@Stenheart]

and then the sirens in the background....

[@jackneighbors4374]

She is the most desirable person in the world. I love everything she says.

[@nemaun]

sirens on the background Barcelona never changes

[@lot24]

This program is very surreal..but amazingly beautiful. Michael Glass got nuthin on these minimalists lol

[@icarrillos]

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.

[@loonie209]

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,

[@noisemonkey7]

actually this was from a 1998 TV show : imdb.com/title/tt0400769/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[@ninamyu3377]

これすごいなぁ。ミニマリスト好き。

[@jacobreveles7222]

She's like the Mr. Rogers of music in terms of curiosity

[@LivingDead53]

her and madonna advertise them with "A Bedtime Story." Why was I upset? because everyone was harassing me.

[@djkero]

bjork is an alien™

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

I'm an alien

[@AndreasDelleske]

Humanity sent one of their first messengers to earth.

[@pagandude1]

This here folks is one of planet earths true living legends , a genius musically the likes of Mozart

[@lmd7316]

i wish this was subtitled so i can share it with friends that don't speak english

[@flame2106]

will marry the girl who makes the same face at 5.01 when hearing that sound

[@jarkkkoo]

thanx.. thanx.. thanx.. thanx..

[@cowboystitching]

@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.

[@JOUA1400]

It's Princess Leah!!!!!

[@user-sp5fr7nv1e]

She is a Mozart of today.

[@sakuragakuin7046]

Love

[@rindacul]

Why she doesn´t has collaborate with this people?

[@rlkguitar]

1:58 guitar or lute or harp works by directly touch too. :)

[@rlkguitar]

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.

[@portcreditswag]

Bjork loves soup; this we know $$$$$$$$$ yeee

[@VictorSteiner]

2:10 noone told him about MIDI keyboards? He would be blown away by MPE ;D

[@lostvolkov4946]

Amo el acento de bjork

[@jakeyalmighty]

3:21 i was there in November :D

[@Luxgal]

they are located in barcelona, thats why

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

We need a link from here to part 2, to Arvo Part :)

[@casachezdoom2588]

Where can I find pt 2?

[@PINK_AURORA4444]

ХЗ

[@alexgently]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIK3qamjoaZsa7M

[@Popitet]

What happened to part 2? I miss it.

[@rodrigo3hm]

Does anyone knows how to make those kind of instruments/apparats? The ones that Vaino uses?

[@Stenheart]

these sounds is interesting

[@davemckay4359]

Slow it down for a headache

[@incredibleindigowaters]

Did her and John Cage ever get together?!

[@rocker3277]

with a high enough amp and feed back, yeah you basically can

[@kirsti1984]

Yep. I'm from Estonia and I'd love this Scandinavian Tour idea ;) It'd ve even more perfect if she came to Estonia though :D

[@seeinkorean]

Can you please repost part 2?

[@kennethguitarfiend4493]

But seriously... Mika is dead??? 😔

[@ievaaveiieva]

you sound like one person i know. and she listens to jonas brothers

[@porkotube]

why you show gaudi's structures? thats no Minimalists at all..

[@ievaaveiieva]

you do know, that more than half of the people who is learning english is speaking with an accent? if you can't listen to it, you should stay home all your life with ears plugged.

[@VenusAsABoyFilms]

Bjork doesn't age, does she? I love it. :)

[@cowboystitching]

@cowboystitching Actually, you will create sound, come to think of it, but it will be negligible and not really useful or musical.

[@AnthonyVineMusic]

7:23

[@darklyperfect]

I think this video is quite weird

[@pankonplatano]

pues por que crees que se lame lo labios???? obviamente porque se le cae la baba

[@kennethguitarfiend4493]

Björk is and always has been one of my favourite human beings, always been kind of foolishly in love with her smart sweetness...

[@agnieszkakordjak7167]

Kenneth Fiend And FOR ME- I am my favourite human being :)

[@ggdd1299]

RIP Mika Vainio. Thank you for the great music.

[@Krazeebaby77]

She has the curiosity of a child and the heart of a strong intelligent woman.

[@robroycahala-barrow3485]

She's also a INFP 😍🥰💖

[@MikeOcksmallClips]

@@robroycahala-barrow3485 cringe

[@tardwrangler]

a strong independent stunning and brave intelligent woman

[@lebannerfan65]

"Inside a note is a microcosmos, especially the textures". I am now in love with Bjork.

[@MaceOjala]

Oh I didn't know about this series by Björk and BBC, but stumbled upon it now, suggested by the KZbin 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 :)

[@MaceOjala]

That happened around the time this film is from, 1997 I believe.

[@zana-du]

RIP Mika Vainio :(

[@SelmiAzhar]

i can listen to her for a few life times and never get bored and tired of her.

[@kosmotropics]

"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.

[@Yemoe777]

I like that approach 🐸

[@Terenceeliot]

And to think this is maybe her fieldwork research for Vespertine.

[@anodyne57]

And later collaboration with Matthew Barney for that movie's soundtrack.

[@buasuda0]

"Shake of the heavy armor of the brain and start with simple things.."

[@Putaspellonyou]

She should teach at a university. Seriously.

[@zurichsee706]

She is a real TEACHER because she can motivate and inspire people.

[@Putaspellonyou]

@@zurichsee706 that literally made no sense. You should go to university.

[@davemckay4359]

The bravest thing you do in these times, is to be still.

[@MAX96MENDES]

Bjork is 100 years ahead of her time. Great doc.

[@robertmatheus8004]

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!

[@anodyne57]

Björk speaks Björkian language.

[@PedroMiguel-if3ll]

Skyrim accent!

[@inkedskindeep9941]

"Shake off that armour of the brain." 💓

[@Adian00]

bjork + arvo part = the height of musical imagination and artistry.

[@Ant_Mat]

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

[@anodyne57]

Björk speaks Björkian language.

[@capco777]

Everything vibrates......love Bjork's soul

[@montecarlostar]

This is incredible, I can't believe glasses sound like this

[@natalie19203]

anywhere I can access the whole episode? :(

[@XoihaOsla]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYDSon-eg9aLetk

[@oddurgitar7509]

@1:54 Classical guitar

[@miguelortiz5309]

You pluck a guitar string tho.

[@sholape]

anyone else notice the comparable change in accent when she's interviewing the scottish glass player as opposed to arvo part? o.O

[@gregortrierweiler9268]

very pretty! i agree towards electronic sounds...pretty is the right word!

[@alexgently]

such a beutiful track in the end, wow. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5rbo4awfsZlbJY

[@foodafokkarez]

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!).

[@Mai-Gninwod]

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

[@renatoloureiro9103]

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.

[@jaemoon2]

God, there's just so much about music they don't teach you at school. I'm actually learning from this!

[@tHoM0r]

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

[@baconxbx775]

Sounds like something that would have fit perfectly in Interstellar

[@ainsleyharriott2209]

I would love to hear her do audio books

[@saltalgilmour9745]

RIP _MIKA :(

[@sebp400]

Pan Sonic live was something.

[@juancito1114]

6:43 dice: 'Re loco' !

[@RKTologist]

3:05 "yeah this is actually hotdog water"

[@НачалоКончал]

Благодарю 🙏🏾

[@vleaky3430]

She listened to this 3:18 and was like ALL NEON LIKE