Gallery: How Designers Built an Icelandic Cave at MoMA for Björk

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    MoMA's Björk retrospective officially opened yesterday. Black Lake, a new song and video installation, is the marquee piece of the show.
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    Björk had a team of collaborators, including the architect David Benjamin, who designed the tower of fungus bricks that went up at MoMA PS1 last summer.
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    For Black Lake, Benjamin created hand made soundproofing panels that like the “topography of a lava cave."
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    The idea is to make visitors feel as though they're in an Icelandic ravine, or a lava cave. Plus, each panel was inspired by the shape of sound waves, from Black Lake.
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    Autodesk also collaborated with Björk. They helped design the moss-y setting for the trailer video (seen here) for Black Lake.
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    Autodesk also brought in xRez studio to do camera work, to better capture the Icelandic terrain that's the setting for the video.
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    They used drones to photograph the landscape, and ended up with a trove of footage that could be stitched together to create something more immersive, and more panoramic.
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    The project, in its entirety, is Björk's attempt to, as she says, “hang a song on the wall.”
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