Björk announces Cornucopia: The Book

Photo credit: Santiago Felipe

Influential artist Björk will showcase their majestic Cornucopia tour with a new picture book.

Announced on Tuesday, Cornucopia: The Book will deliver 313 images from their Cornucopia tour, which ran from 2019 through 2013. The book will be released on November 15th via One Little Independent Records. Pre-orders for the book can be made here.

Björk said this about the picture book:

“I’m proud to announce the release of Cornucopia: The Book. This book documents my five-year tour, Cornucopia, designed by M/M Paris, with images shot by photographer Santiago Felipe.

Before this tour, I spent a decade working with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation, creating Biophilia, the first app album, and later Vulnicura as a VR album. I was deeply inspired by the idea of a fully-immersive experience, spending a spring in an Icelandic lighthouse, spreading Utopia into fully surround speakers. My intention was to bring what we had created for 21st-century VR into a 19th-century theatre—taking it from the headset to the stage.

This vision was realized with 27 moving curtains that captured projections on different textures and LED screens, creating a digitally animated show: a modern lanterna magica for live music. I also wanted to feature bespoke instruments: a magnetic harp, an aluphone, a circular flute, and a reverb chamber, specially built with an audio architect to enhance the most intimate version of a performance - in a personal chapel.

Throughout this tale, there is a subplot woven in: a second story of an avatar - a modern marionette who alchemically mutates, from puppet to puppet, from the injury of a heart wound to a fully healed state. I hope you enjoy it.”

Björk’s last studio album was 2022’s Fossora, which gained the artist their 16th Grammy nomination.