Björk - Drawing Restraint 9

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This is the soundtrack to the new Matthew Barney she's been working on for quite some time. No, it's not the followup to Medulla (which is due next year). Due out this July.

{01} gratitude (vocals by Will Oldham)
{02} pearl
{03} ambergris march
{04} bath
{05} hunter vessel
{06} shimenawa
{07} vessel shimenawa
{08} storm
{09} holographic entrypoint
{10} cetacea
{11} antarctic return

You can hear samples here:

http://unit.bjork.com/specials/dr9/

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

bjork = mike tyson

charleston charge (chaki), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

July 25th is the exact date.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

matthew barney = madonna

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

gratitude (vocals by Will Oldham)

I'm sorry, something just died inside.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

"Press release written by Drew Daniel"

locus solus, Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

when does the film "come out" ?

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

It's being premiered in Japan on July 1st.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

And then I hear tell that it's coming to San Francisco, huzzah!

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I always like Oldham against electronic backdrops, assuming this is going to be electronic (safe bet, I'd say, tho I haven't bothered to hear the clips). His old moan makes a nice contrast.

Ryan Pitchfork, Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand how it isn't a followup to Medulla if it's going to be her first album since Medulla was released. Oh well.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

its like a side thing shes been working on for a while. not an album album.

charleston charge (chaki), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Was Selmasongs the followup to Homogenic? Was Virgin Suicides the followup to Moon Safari? Etc.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Similarly, One Foot in the Grave wasn't to be considered the follow-up to Mellow Gold. It ought to have been.

Ryan Pitchfork, Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I might be the only one here with that opinion.

Ryan Pitchfork, Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint [ F / I / M / PH / S ]
Friday, June 23, 2006 – Tuesday, September 19, 2006
This series of works by conceptual artist Matthew Barney is centered on the conflicted relationship between human beings and their cultural environment, as well as the struggles of energies within the human body. The comprehensive exhibition includes sculptures, drawings, photographs, video installations, and documents from Drawing Restraint 1–8. The Drawing Restraint series, created between 1988 and 1993, is based on a number of obstacles Barney devised to impede the act of artmaking, specifically drawing. His self-imposed modes of resistance included bouncing on a trampoline, climbing ramps while attached to tethers, and pushing blocking sleds—all while attempting to draw. The series proposes that the strength of a work of art is determined by the hardship overcome in creating it, that the building of a form on paper correlates directly to the building of a muscle. Barney’s new installment Drawing Restraint 9 also on view, continues the investigation of restraint and challenge, this time in the context of Japanese ritual and tradition. SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition.

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

(thanks drew)

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

oh my i'm psyched about this. from the clips it sounds like this could well be her best record. good to see she's working with Leila again too (albeit only on one track) - i was wondering recently where she had got to.

I always like Oldham against electronic backdrops, assuming this is going to be electronic (safe bet, I'd say, tho I haven't bothered to hear the clips).

hmm i'm not sure about this - why is it a safe bet? the last few bjork records have featured mostly acoustic elements processed electronically so her work blurs the line between "electronic" and "acoustic" or, rather ignores the line. "medulla" contains only vocal sounds, after all.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

His self-imposed modes of resistance included bouncing on a trampoline, climbing ramps while attached to tethers, and pushing blocking sleds—all while attempting to draw.

I think this is where I have to say that something is amiss.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

I mean, Matthew Barney, Crocodile Hunter -- While Drawing!, that's something.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I love Bjork! I love Barnery!

the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

well - he was an ex-football player! it is drawing on one's own traditions. it is very clever.

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

His pesto burger is great.

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

AW I MISS BERKELEY

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Matthew, move to my neighborhood in Jersey City, open your windows in this heat and try n' get creative with the hijinks going on on the street outside. Resistance enough. I like the challenge, personally, but...really.

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

upstairs from barney's at cedar and shattuck used to be a thai place called cambodiana where you could get pad thai with french fries.

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm hungry.

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

aw come on guys - he went to harvard on a football scholarship and studied studio art - he is working out his jock issues! it shows chutzpah!!

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I want to smother this thread in vaseline.

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I might go and get some Barnery's now actually.

For the record I prefer his delicious Teriyaki burger. It must be hard making burgers that good AND also being a famous dinosaur and artist.

the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

chutzpah! roffle!

pad thai and french fries sounds like hangover munchies.

tricky (disco stu), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

i think it makes sense that the bay area has the best food and the best dope in america.

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

You drug fiend, Vahid.

(Go to the Meat Beat Manifesto show in SD or I disown you.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

i am moving to the bay area in two months. hopefully there's a vegan/vegetarian of this pesto burger because i will be all over it.

tricky (disco stu), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

NED: seeing as it is a whole TWO BLOCKS from my house i think i might manage ... are you taking the train?? dinner?? email me!

vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Welcome, tricky! Yay!

the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

i think it makes sense that the bay area has the best food and the best dope in america.

I consumed both last night! It was great.


And yes, Barney's has exceedingly good vegetarian burgers.

the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Are the Matthew Barney burgers better in the SF or Berkeley?

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

woo! and thanks for the welcome...i am very excited to be going. xpost..

tricky (disco stu), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Are the Matthew Barney burgers better in the SF or Berkeley?

The Berkeley!

the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

why is it a safe bet? the last few bjork records have featured mostly acoustic elements processed electronically so her work blurs the line between "electronic" and "acoustic" or, rather ignores the line. "medulla" contains only vocal sounds, after all.

"Processed electronically," your words not mine. Medulla was her first real break from electronic music, as far as I'm concerned, and tho the acoustic/a cappella angle was def. played up, the electronic processing seemed nearly as integral to the final product as the vocals. I don't see her ever breaking off completely from electronic components, and especially not on a project she's rumored to have been at work on since after Vespertine. I'd love her to prove me wrong, tho.

Ryan Pitchfork, Monday, 13 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

His self-imposed modes of resistance included bouncing on a trampoline, climbing ramps while attached to tethers, and pushing blocking sleds—all while attempting to draw.

Matthew Barney, Jackass. Jackass, Matthew Barney. Oh, I see you've met.

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Um, no.

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 13 June 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Those who are slagging Barney...have you seen any of the Cremaster series? (or any of the drawing restraint series, for that matter?). If so, your criticism is valid, but in my opinion, misguided. If not...shhhh. Commenting on things you don't know about due to knee-jerk reaction=super-dud. Don't embarrass yourself needlessly.

John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 13 June 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i mean what would you rather have your artists do?

jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

focus a little less intensely on being "edgy" maybe

Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 13 June 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I saw the Barney show at the Guggenheim. Yyyyyyyyaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnn.

pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I've seen all i could. I was at first enthralled by the stills and press and matthew's continuious blathering on about it all. then, alas, i saw the actual work........

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Stepping aside all the Matthew hate here (I'm neutral. I've yet to see any of his installatuons or films), I expect this release will be enjoyable without the visual content equally well, if not better than Selmasongs.

Speaking of which {08} storm is a creation already performed live on her last tour (previously known as 'Nameless'). This also totally clears the slate for the next "real follow up" record as far as unrecorded material goes, unless she happens to preview any newer material live in the interim.

fandango (fandango), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn this is exciting and it's opening a day before my birthday, so it's the best birthday present I could imagine. I'm really excited about this; I think Barney is a genius. Fuck you haters.

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

was a soundtrack ever released for the arto lindsay/julia butterfly-hill film he did ("de lama lamina", i think)? was that film ever released properly? it was kinda nice.

locus solus, Monday, 13 June 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I hear you Drew. I really do give him a fair chance. I want to like it. By all accounts it's everything I should love. Paganism, decadence, spectacle, obsession, symbolisim. And still, I always feel...well...left outside looking in. I never connect with his work, the way I have with other art. It has the appearence of magic, but there's nothing enchanting about it. I leave feeling like he took something from me or I leave with less than what I came with. Maybe my preconceptions? Is he freeing me from my own ideals? I am very resistant to change after all. Maybe I'm just being stubborn in the face of something "new".

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

xpost - I don't think of Selmasongs as a separate entity from the film no. I can still imagine this release being more enjoyable on it's own merits though. If only for the fact that it'll be mostly instrumental. I'm probably way off. Either way it hardly matters if this isn't considered a 'real' album in the scheme of things.

Come to think of it, I hardly own any soundtrack records, Björk alone is selling this one to me. I think this kind of element about them - the increased pressure to analyse and separate form & content is something I conciously avoid in music generally (for better or worse). I find it a barrier to enjoyment in Hip-Hop much of the time too fwiw. Which isn't to say it's bad, just hard to digest. I guess why some people still think of it as 'not music' (I don't agree, just saying).

I do own music that has been created partly to soundtrack art installations though... and I don't always remember when I listen to those pieces on their own. I think DR9 will probably fall somewhere inbetween these poles, of unawareness and unavoidability of the 'missing' elements. Except maybe on the feat. Will Oldham track. This entire post is stating the completely obvious :-/

fandango (fandango), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Bjork's new work seems free to travel successfully on it's own. I just wish the samples were longer!

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

could someone tell me what 'x-post' means?

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

'cross-post' -- in otherwards, you're responding to a previous post, but there's been another post from someone else that appeared in the meantime.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

What label is this being released on and does the release date only refer to the UK (and if so, when will the US release be)?

L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of difficult to work out how the film relates to the "drawing restraints" themselves. i like Barney's work but, for me, it's become a bit too beautiful. like ever more elaborate and gorgeous versions of Peter Greenaway films.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

i've only ever loved his really short films and a couple of his drawings - i guess mostly for their visual appeal and that was when things were simple. i think the cremaster series are dissappointing but also i don't really get half of what is going on.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

(x-post) thanks ned!

like that?

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

i don't think you need to understand all of it to appreciate it.

xp

or like that! ;)

jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

x-post adds a whole new finesse! wonderful

and yes I agree with jed. Even more, you don't even need to like it to appreciate it. I mean I don't like Salvador Dali...but I appreciate him. I don't like a lot of things that I still think have merit. I mean who actually likes listening to Merzbow? (And yet I sat through two entire albums on a train ride-i felt really stoned afterwards)

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

that must be why i've seen so much of his stuff...and why i'm kinda excited about this though i'm anticipating being completely confused AND annoyed. anyone ever see his drawings in blue pen of testicles? those were nice

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

blue balls?

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

oh god! YES!

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, mangrapes. (And if you squish them you get whine.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Now there's a mental image I certainly didn't need.

Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I didn't need it either, but since Dan seems to be taking the day off I must step up.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

manwhore

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

mangrapes

http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/UMMA/KEL7/KEL70010001_b.jpg

django (django), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I love to be piqued by incomprehension, baffled into tingles by strangeness.

Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

i hate how contemporary artists have to justify their art with endless verbiose passages of psuedo philosophy and cultural theory. that said, barney somehow manages to be a master of this and a fairly interesting artist at the same time.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

i hate how contemporary artists have to justify their art with endless verbiose passages of psuedo philosophy and cultural theory.

amen

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Show me where Barney *himself* has personally constructed "verbose passages of pseudo philosophy and cultural theory"- certainly critics who like his work have done so on his behalf or in praise of him, but Barney himself? Most of the statements he's made about his work have been about concrete particulars behind his casting and materials decisions.

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

i stand by my amen

something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

if it's not barney, then perhaps it's his gallery? whoever came up with such banalities as:

the conflicted relationship between human beings and their cultural environment

the struggles of energies within the human body

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

i mean, all this says is that someone--barney, his representatives, the press (i suspect all three)--is very canny at pushing his art to the public within the currently accepted reigning mode. it doesn't speak poorly (or well) of his art, necessarily. though it can make it a bit tougher to appreciate, sometimes.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

when i was at the biennale in 2003, far too many of the installations were accompanied by incredibly windy passages. i suspect the curators were probably guilty of some of this, but in some cases the art on display was so minimal as to be utterly impoverished, and the only interest it might generate would be from the verbiage posted outside. it sometimes seemed like the art of least interest was accompanied by the most longwinded "explication" and vice-versa. though there were important exceptions. and barney's work is, often, a qualified exception if we can take this to be any kind of "rule of thumb" for contemporary art (i don't necessarily think we can).

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

i should add (anticipating a momuslike reaction) that i'm not afraid of or bothered by words per se (even though i'm american!), it's just that the words accompanying so much modern art go on and on without saying or explicating anything except in the most banal, gaseous fashion, as above.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

sometimes i think the verbiage, the criticism or explanation, is just as important as the art, especially contemporary conceptual art. complaining about extra verbiage is often just as pretentious as said verbiage. i like to read what the curator has to say and would oftentimes be lost otherwise (arguably being lost is sometimes a good thing).

tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

im excited about this

anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

i'm not opposed to verbiage per se, it's just that the stuff about barney above, like so much writing celebrating or "explaining" contemporary art, is uninteresting and banal as writing, as ideas. it serves almost solely to valorize or legitimate the art and/or artistic process.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of like press sheets for album releases!

tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

amateurist, you just launched a five post rant on what seems to be some SFMOMA curator's banal 1-paragraph blurb and conflated it with Barney's intent and work. you kind of have to not do that.

some critics who pan a work by mockingly quoting the press release think they're stepping clear of the hype, but they're more ensnared in it than anyone. sometimes you have to endure some hilarious purple prose when hunting this stuff down, but don't blame the artist if you give up before you even get to their actual work.

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

you're definitely there to experience the artist's work and not the curator's. but most things i've read on barney's work do seem really vague, overwrought descriptions, loosely assigning meaning etc. i think its entirely possible its b/c his work is a lot of provocative images and and concepts that are basic but lead nowhere - it'd be normal to grasp for more meaning and resolution. curators cannot say things like "these pieces will leave you confused and cold and swimming around in your own brain. we really don't know what the hell he's doing, but vaseline's one hell of a lubricant"

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

curators cannot say things like "these pieces will leave you confused and cold and swimming around in your own brain. we really don't know what the hell he's doing, but vaseline's one hell of a lubricant"

but it's so OTM!

john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

amateurist, you just launched a five post rant on what seems to be some SFMOMA curator's banal 1-paragraph blurb and conflated it with Barney's intent and work.

no, i haven't. i have expressed admiration for barney's work on several threads, including (in a cautious way) this one. i just expressed regret over the way barney's work is presented by his curators (and sometimes by himself and his gallery). i wasn't responding to barney's art at all but the blurb that was used to advertise his art.

but yes, as i note above, sometimes this sort of thing does jaundice me a bit against the work--or make it harder to appreciate. i agree that it's important to try to get beyond this sort of reaction.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

also: susan otm.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
Storm.

Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

i was so excited that this was opening in SF near my birthday until i realized it's NEXT YEAR

kyle (akmonday), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

thanks Salvador

Dominique (dleone), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

thanks for storm, salvador!

is the whole thing available? i love bjork but am most excited about the track with will oldham

Johann (johann), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Oddly, I'm not too excited about this... and Bjork is like my fave artist (or was at one point). I guess it's because it's just a soundtrack, and most of the tracks are instrumental... I'll still buy it though. "Storm" is good, but I've known it for about 2 years know (when she performed it live as "Nameless), it always struck me as more of an 'experiment' than an actual song, but whatever.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 15 July 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Ambergis March

Gratitude feat. Will Oldham

Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

thanks, gratitude is great!

bjork and will oldham should collaborate more!

ambergis march is pretty tooo

Johann (johann), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...
so this is really good

i think every bjork album is better than the last. i can't listen to the first couple anymore.

bugged out, Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Was very surprised she was #2 in the ilm listening charts this week, over stuff like Goldfrapp even (thread size obv. no indication of popularity then!).

Also surprised the dreaded Pfork haven't reviewed this yet! I can't imagine them dragging their heels over let's say, a Johnny Greenwood soundtrack ;) perhaps they hate it ;D

fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

whats the ilm listening charts?

huell howser (chaki), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

ah sorry... well, the unofficial thing I was referring to is the audioscrobbler (see: Post your Audiosrobbler userlink so we can always watch what you're listening to) weekly lists, of what ilxor's who've joined that group have been listeing to combined. The makeover made me so mad I've deleted mine though! (not that their end has done it yet).

fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

The synths on "Storm" remind me of Paul McCartney's "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time." Which is an awesome synth line.

Salvador (Salvador), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)


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