björk to premiere new live show at manchester international festival

Björk will play her first UK live shows in over three years this summer as part of the Manchester International Festival, where she will premiere brand new music from her forthcoming album Biophilia.

An ambitious multimedia project that combines music, nature and the internet into what sounds like one mind-blowing whole, the show includes a range of bespoke instruments that include such wondrous-sounding creations as a digitally-controlled pipe organ, a thirty-foot pendulum that harnesses the Earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns, a gamelan–celeste hybrid and a pin barrel harp. Six performances have been announced, to take place over a three-week period in June/July at Manchester’s Campfield Market Hall, which holds just 1800 people.

Exact dates will be announced on the festival website this afternoon. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am here.

As well as staging the performances, Manchester International Festival will be running workshops with young people in Manchester to explore the concepts behind the project. The live show will then travel to other major cities around the world.

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Written by: Alan Pedder

Tags: biophilia, bjork, manchester international festival

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