Bjork debut track listing12/6/2023 By collecting different crystals from the walls of the tunnel, new tunnels are unlocked, each one playing a different section of the song. The app for "Crystalline" is a video game that uses the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad's tilt feature to move a crystal through various tunnels. The main app was released on 19 July 2011, coinciding with the release of "Cosmogony", and it integrates all the songs' apps. Apps Įvery song on Biophilia has an app for iPhone or iPad. The video received a nomination at the Antville Music Video Awards, in the Best Art Direction category. All this resulted from several conversations I had with Björk about these matters. On the third verse, they create bubbles where metallic objects appear. Then, they create wavelets, just like rain. The idea of a ray of light provocating an impact on those things and making them move intrigated me. I decided that, in the clip, the meteor shower would fall onto the ground and make a sound. We filmed the clip still by still, exposing the film several times. The video features heavy computer and stop-motion animation. Björk stars as a spectator of the meteor rain in the sky, as some kind of god. The video opens with a view of the moon and a meteor shower on it, forming different forms and crystals. It was premiered on 26 July 2011 on YouTube. The music video for "Crystalline" was recorded on 26 May and was directed by long-time collaborator Michel Gondry. Part of my obsessive nature wants to map out each intersection in the world and match it with a song… To me crystal structures seem to grow in a similar way. Like some have three streets meeting with very tall buildings on all sides while others are complex with like five street meeting but all buildings are low and so on… Seems like each one of them has a different mood, different spatial tension or release. I’ve sat a lot of my life in buses and taxis from 20 years of touring and somehow all these different types of intersections have gone on file in my brain. Björk took inspiration for the song from cities and buildings: The lyrics to "Crystalline" talk about the process of crystallization in minerals and rocks but taking a more personal point of view, relating the growth of a crystal structure with the growth of relationships in people's hearts. A review in The Guardian described the piece as a hybrid of the musical styles of her previous albums Post and Vespertine, with undercurrent percussive elements from her album Homogenic. After the bridge, the song features a gameleste solo, and consequently ends with a breakcore section which uses the Amen break. "Crystalline" is a mostly electronic song, featuring a continuous 'gameleste' base and electronic beats and rhythm. On 28 June 2011, UK producers 16bit confirmed via Facebook that they produced the song. The song leaked onto the internet on 25 June 2011. The release of the song was preceded by three teasers: on the first one, entitled "Road to Crystalline" we can see Björk driving her Hummer through a road in Iceland while playing an excerpt of a demo version of the song on the second one, we could see one of the new instruments developed for the Manchester performances, that also plays on the track: the 'Gameleste', a celesta which was modified by Icelandic Organ builder, Björgvin Tómasson and British Cymbalsmith and Gong maker, Matt Nolan so that it sounds like Gamelan and could be played remotely by MIDI or even an iPad and on the third teaser, recording sessions of the remix featuring Omar Souleyman were shown. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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