Close-up of a crocodile’s teeth, Serengeti, photograph by Paul Coleman (via National Geographic Photo of the Day)
Biophilia, her most ambitious and exciting work to date took the question of where do music, nature and technology meet and played with it. A multimedia project encompassing music, apps,internet, installations and live shows, Biophilia shows how sound can work in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic structure.
Björk performed Biophilia tracks alongside music from her genre-defying back catalogue with a small group of unique musical collaborators, including an award-winning Icelandic female choir. The show featured a range of specially conceived and crafted instruments, among them a bespoke pipe organ that accepts digital information and a pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns.
In a special collaboration with MIF, the Biophilia show will travel to major cities around the world following the Manchester premiere.MIF also worked with young people in Manchester to explore the ideas behind Björk’s Biophilia.
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NASA satellite images of the Richat Structure.
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of west–central Mauritania near Ouadane. This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical, 40-km in diameter, dome. The sedimentary rock exposed in this dome range in age from Late Proterozoic within the center of the dome to Ordovician sandstone around its edges.