Bjork releases first virtual reality music album

Bjork has been a musical master for decades, incorporating various mediums into her music which now includes virtual reality with the release of Vulnicura VR.

Vulnicura VR immerses the viewer in the Icelandic landscapes that inspire many of Björk’s songs and imagery.  As the viewer glides across the landscape a single thread follows their gaze, embroidering itself into the ground as they look down or darting into the sky as they look up to find totems floating in the air. Each totem represents a unique virtual reality experience and by focusing their gaze onto a totem the viewer is transported to an immersive Björk experience.

“The older I get the more I understand what is special about how we experience music.  It’s either one-on-one, or thousands of people at a festival where you lose yourself.  It’s not intellectual, it’s impulsive. Virtual reality is a natural continuity of that.  It has a lot of intimacy,” said the musician in an interview with The Guardian.

Vulnicura VR currently has three music videos, with five more to be included as they are produced to complete.