This content was created by Sue Warnke. This content was uploaded by Sue Warnke. This is a YouTube video titled "Squarespace Icons 01: Björk (French)" (created 2022-10-13) featuring Björk speaking in a monologue about her album Fosora. The speaker describes the album's nature- and mushroom-inspired themes, sonic choices (heavy bottom end, bass clarinets), the visual direction (root vegetables, fungi, flowy organic layouts), and collaboration with graphic designers and Squarespace on album covers, videos, and website pages. The excerpt is a single-speaker artistic reflection on the creative process.
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Nature is my music. I am nature. It brings us more into our body and out of our heads, you know. Most of my albums, they always start with a feeling. The feeling in the beginning of Fosora was just like landing, sticking your feet into the soil and just getting, like, grounded. You know, it's a mushroom album. Yes, it's rooted. Yes, it's underground, but it's happy and it's vibrant. I've always looked at myself as the guardian of the bridge between the song and the visuals. Sonically, I'm working with a lot of bottom end, bass clarinets punching and drilling through soil. The graphic designers I work with turned up with beautiful, delicious-looking digital root vegetables and fungi. We are going to be putting them all over the album covers and videos and websites. I've been collaborating with Squarespace to make a page for each It became very clear that we were gonna go for, like, a flowy feeling. There's gonna be no straight lines, like underground plant organisms. In a way, each video is almost like a universe. People could have access to the lyrics or see maybe some of the collaborators that I worked with and so on. For For Sora, I really want as many people to see it as possible. This was a very enjoyable process for me.
