Björk Digital

Björk Digital is an “immersive”virtual reality exhibit by Icelandic musician Björk featuring 360-degree VR music videos from her eighth studio album, Vulnicura. The exhibit debuted at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia as part of the Vivid Sydney festival on 4 June 2016 and has traveled across the globe to Tokyo, London, Mexico and the United States with future cities yet to be announced. It is expected to run a total of 18 months.

Björk has promoted the traveling exhibit with a series of opening night DJ sets and acoustic, strings-only concert, premiering at London’s famous Royal Albert Hall on 21 September 2016. Her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, took place on 30 May 2017.

Björk Digital is expected to be released on a wide variety of VR platforms as well as Apple and Android devices. The release date has not yet been announced.

Björk first began experimenting with virtual reality technology in 2014 when she and director Andrew Thomas Hang made “Stonemilker”, the first song from the singer's critically acclaimed 2015 album Vulnicura. “I feel the chronological narrative of the album is ideal for the private circus virtual reality is,” Björk said, calling VR, “a theatre able to capture the emotional landscape of (Vulnicura)."

80 Samsung Gear VR headsets were utilized for Björk Digital, and the VR project was ported to the HTC Vive “for a more immersive experience that comes with full room tracking.” River Studios, a San Francisco-based VR COMPANY, produced the exhibit while the videos themselves were commissioned and produced by a wide variety of other collaborators.

On 17 March 2016 Björk Digital was announced as one of the headlining events at Vivid Sydney 2016, an annual music and arts festival in Sydney, Australia. In addition, Vivid Syndey announced that Björk herself would DJ the opening night party of the VR exhibit on 3 June 2016. Tickets to the opening night DJ set quickly sold out, leading to a second DJ set being added for the following day.

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