From S.Norgate-ie4g9922 Sent Fri, Feb 6th 1998, 12:23
From S.Norgate-ie4g9922 Sent Fri, Feb 6th 1998, 12:23
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:22:14 +0000 (GMT) From: xxxxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx To: Ben Coffer <xxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx> Subject: Re: Bjork On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Ben Coffer wrote: > >Does anyone else find Bjork tremendously attractive? Please don't tell me > >I'm alone on that... ;-) > > Yes, she is. > > Anyway, she does write her own music....well, maybe....I saw the > South Bank show about her and she has this drum-machine (or sampler > maybe) that she carries around with her and can put ideas down > straight away on it. They showed her playing with it on a beach i > seem to remember. So she may write some (small) parts of music here > and there...or just soundbites that get incorporated into tunes maybe. > No way! She actually writes the music, the notes, chords etc. The drum-machine/sampler she was playing (Yamaha SU10 I think tech heads) was just a sort of note pad for trying things out on the move. In her room she had a home studio set up with a couple of keybords and a set of modules. It's always been the case that she wrote her own stuff and the other people she's worked with have just been producers or collaborators. Mark Bell (as far as I can see) only provided rhythms to go with what Bjork had already written or she wrote on top of what he had sketched out. The last album is basically LFO/Ae/Aphex type beats overlaid with an Icelandic string quartet (or quintet, or sextet I forget) and Bjorks inimitable vocals. This album, as she said in the South Bank Show, is finally what she has been aiming for, the previous two were not entirely to her taste and really only done to as a sort of intermediate stage from the Sugarcubes. Bjork does use other peoples skills, Mark Bell and a string arranger on this album, but I would hate peolple to get the idea that she *just* does the singing. For non-UK subscribers The South Bank Show is an TV arts programme that each week profiles a different artist or performer. It's usually a classical artist, painter, composer, writer or some such but occasionally you get more popular people on. Ian Banks was another notable programme this season. Steve.N P.S. UK members might be interested to know that the music to The Time the Place (like Jerry Springer/Rikki Lake/Oprah/ Montell etc but with less shouting, clapping and "you go girl"ing) uses the same break beat as Preaching to the Perverted by PWEI. Ironic? I think so.