Designers of Björk's Cornucopia show "ignored the concert rule book"
Icelandic singer Björk worked with creatives from the theatre world who tore up the rule book to create a "delicate" set for her Cornucopia tour.
Björk has been touring her Cornucopia show in North America and Europe since May this year. It kicked off at The Shed in New York designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with the final show taking place in Stockholm this Sunday.
She performed a 19 song set with a 50-person choir, seven flautists, a harpist, percussionist and electronic musicians, wearing costumes by couturier Iris van Herpen and Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing.
The concert took place on four glowing, mushroom-like platforms raised to different levels and partially obscured by a threaded fabric curtain.
The set was created by designer Chiara Stephenson who has previously designed shows for Wyndham's Theatre and The Globe in London, as well as stages around the UK. Stephenson thinks her background in theatre allows her to add "a sensitivity or a bit of a held atmosphere" to the sets she creates, something which she believes is unusual for a large-scale musical concerts.
"[Music shows] can often feel quite brutal and engineered, quite chunky and robust," explained Stephenson. "I think our constant aim with this show was to make something that felt more delicate and a bit more fragile in a way."
She told Dezeen that the multi-platform set allowed musicians to perform in a more creative way rather than from one mar...
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