Björk’s Journey Within: Video For Biophilia’s ’Hollow’

The Biophilia project has been a true gift. From the iOS app it spawned to videos such as this, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more engaging multimedia exploration of where science meets art in today’s pop culture.

This video for the song “Hollow” is a collaboration with digital bio-artist Drew Berry, who is a bad-ass. Here’s my annotated story summary, but feel free to explore your own interpretations:

As we journey through the cytoplasm, past mitochondria, and into the twitching nuclear pore, we run into a lonely DNA-binding protein as it travels along the spiral path of the major groove in search of, well, something. As it passes wagging histone tails and dynamic nucleosomes, our green friend comes head-to-head with a mighty replication fork, thrown aside as leading and lagging strands are drawn through its replication machinery. A ghostly face, perhaps Björk’s ghost in her cellular machine, watches over as the protein is forced to wander on, alone, but not, to do whatever it is that little green proteins do.

Love this, more than you know. I’ll leave you with this line from the song:

The trunk of DNA
Now come forth
All species
Hollow

(via All Songs Considered)

Source: NPR

npr: Biophilia, Björk’s latest and most ambitious project yet, began as a collection of songs written around themes of nature, science and humanity’s relationships to both. For most artists, that’d be a lofty enough concept on its own. But Björk heavily researched astrophysics, string theory, neurology, biology and other areas where science and music meet. Her big ideas didn’t stop there. Listen to the album: First Listen: Björk, ‘Biophilia’ Photo credit: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin My previous post about Björk’s Biophilia project and a video of the virus-attack iPad game that goes along with the music.
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Biophilia, Björk’s latest and most ambitious project yet, began as a collection of songs written around themes of nature, science and humanity’s relationships to both. For most artists, that’d be a lofty enough concept on its own. But Björk heavily researched astrophysics, string theory, neurology, biology and other areas where science and music meet. Her big ideas didn’t stop there.

Listen to the album: First Listen: Björk, ‘Biophilia’

Photo credit: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

My previous post about Björk’s Biophilia project and a video of the virus-attack iPad game that goes along with the music.

Björk’s Biophilia is an iPhone/iPad app that combines nature, science and music in a way that only someone like Bjork could do. It goes hand-in-hand with her upcoming album of the same name.

Here’s an example of how the app uses the song “Virus” as the background of a world in which you fight off a viral attack on human cells, where the viruses take over the music as they take over the cells. Simply awesome!

(by ssnibbe and h/t to Hannah Waters)

Source: youtube.com