Björk: A History of Innovation - a thread

Just to be clear this thread's purpose is only to mention her pioneering contributions to music

The thread isn't in chronological order, rather, just a list

1. Due to the rise of illegal downloads , Björk decided to use instruments whose sounds would not be compromised when downloaded and played on a computer, she created microbeats, intricately layered patterns of samples and rhythms from household items for "Vespertine"

2. Björk was one of the first major artist to use a 360-degree cameras to create one of the first virtual reality music videos

In 2015 she brought 360 degree video into mainstream pop culture, with the release of music videos of songs Stonemilker and Mouth Mantra

3. In 2011, Björk was the first artist to ever release their album in the form of applications that linked the album's themes to musicology concepts. In 2014, Biophilia became the first app included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

4. For the 2007 live show ‘Volta’​, Björk was the first musician to adopt an instrument called the ReacTable, a visual synthesiser that looks almost like an oil drum from the year 3000

5. Her 2004 album, Medulla, is one of the few and first albums to be composed of human sounds. It's almost entirely acapella, beatboxing, choirs, moans, grunts, etc

6. On Bjork's most recent Cornucopia, she landed on what is called an ‘acoustic reverberation chamber’, which projects an encapsulated & solacing moment to a large audience. It basically allows Björk to emulate the sound of her singing in her living room for an audience of 1000s

7. In 2015, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, "Black Lake" was featured as an original sound & visual piece. For the exhibition, 6,000 cones & 49 loudspeakers mapped sound to a 3D environment, allowing her music to bound across the space from left to right, up & down in real time.