The Music from Drawing Restraint 9 is a soundtrack created by Björk

Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...

 in collaboration with her partner Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video...

 for his film of the same title

Drawing Restraint 9

Drawing Restraint 9 is a project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature length 35mm film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 16 numbered components and related materials. Some episodes are videos, others sculptural...

. For this project Björk traveled to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 to study ancient Japanese music. Several tracks are made with the sound of the shō, a Japanese instrument which contains 16 various reeds; the shō performances are from Mayumi Miyata

Mayumi Miyata

is a Japanese player of the shō, a traditional Japanese mouth organ. She is the most widely recorded and best internationally known soloist on this instrument.She is a graduate of the Kunitachi College of Music, where she majored in piano...

, one of the world's greatest shō players. She also appears in the film, playing her instrument. The song "Holographic Entrypoint" features a Noh

Noh

, or - derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent" - is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Many characters are masked, with men playing male and female roles. Traditionally, a Noh "performance day" lasts all day and...

 score and vocal performance by Shiro Nomura. Björk brought "Nameless" back from her 2003 tour, and, with the help of Leila Arab

Leila Arab

Leila is an Iranian recording artist, producer and dj based in London.She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk, and has released music on Rephlex Records, XL Recordings and Warp Records....

, looped and edited it to create the track "Storm." Alternative folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer Will Oldham

Will Oldham

Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...

 (also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) is featured on the first track, "Gratitude," singing a letter from a Japanese fisherman to General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...

 set to a melody by Matthew Barney. Björk's vocals feature only on the tracks "Bath", "Storm", and "Cetacea". "Gratitude", "Shimenawa" and "Cetacea" feature harp player Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion...

, who previously collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album Vespertine

Vespertine

Vespertine, is the fifth studio album by the Icelandic recording artist Björk, released on 27 August 2001. On this album, Björk creates a quiet, introverted world of microbeats and personal lyrics...

. "Hunter Vessel" was later re-used on her album Volta

Volta (album)

Volta is the seventh studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in May 2007. It was produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Timbaland and Danja. The music of Volta was a new style for Björk, focusing on similar sounding music combining African beats and other instruments with songs in tribute to Africa...

for the track "Vertebræ by Vertebræ".

The album was re-released in 2006 as a DualDisc

DualDisc

DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America...

 including new DTS

Digital Theater System

DTS is a series of multichannel audio technologies owned by DTS, Inc. , an American company specializing in digital surround sound formats used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications...

 96/24 5.1-channel surround sound mixes on the DVD-audio side, plus the extra track "Petrolatum". The DualDisc also formed part of the ( surrounded): box set.

Original release

DualDisc release

The film

The following is a list of the full score used in the film ordered from when they chronologically appear. Many of the tracks are instrumental or variations of the main themes so were not included on the official soundtrack.

1. "Gratitude" (Barney, Björk) – 4:59
2. "Petrolatum" – 6:10
3. "Haf"
4. "Pearl" – 3:43
5. "Nisshin Maru" (Valgeir Sigurðsson
   Valgeir Sigurðsson
   Valgeir Sigurðsson is an Icelandic record producer, mixer, composer, engineer and musician.-Biography:Coming from a musical background Valgeir's fascination with recording technology lead to a job in a small recording studio at the age of 16. He studied classical guitar and graduated with a...
   
   ) – 2:41
6. "Host" (Mark Bell) – 5:50
7. "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais
   Akira Rabelais
   Akira Rabelais, Los Angeles-based composer and author.Akira is the author of ‘Argeïphontes Lyre’, a software filtering application based on recombination and morphologies. He has collaborated with various musicians, including Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd, Nobukazu Takemura, Stephan Mathieu and...
   
   ) – 5:07
8. "Aposiopesis" (Akira Rabelais) – 5:16
9. "Hunter Vessel" – 6:36
10. "Shimenawa" – 2:48
11. "Vessel Shimenawa" – 1:54
12. "Repose" (Valgeir Sigurðsson)
13. "Storm" (Björk, Leila) – 5:32
14. "Holographic Entrypoint" (Barney) – 9:57
15. "Ambergris March" – 3:57
16. "Field Inversion"
17. "Cetacea" (Barney, Björk) – 3:12
18. "Antarctic Return" – 4:18

Pre-release Tracklisting

The following is the preliminary tracklisting with some alternate titles and an alternate song order. This track list was announced before the album was released.

1. "Giftwrapping"
2. "Petrolatum"
3. "Pearl"
4. "Bath"
5. "Hunter Vessel"
6. "Shimenawa"
7. "Storm"
8. "Holographic Entrypoint"
9. "Ambergris March"
10. "Field Inversion"
11. "Antarctic Return"

Personnel

• Luis Kako Alvarez – design assistant
• Yuji Arai – coordination, session coordinator
• Matthew Barney – director, producer, writer, design, direction, filmmaker
• Scott Bartucca – oboe
• Mark Bell – producer, beat programming
• David Bobroff – contrabass trombone
• James Button – oboe
• Bruce Eidem – trombone
• Emil Friðfinnsson – horn
• Christopher Gaudi – oboe
• Barbara Gladstone – producer
• Kathy Halvorson – oboe
• Shinichi Ishikawa – liner notes
• Clarice Jensen – assistant, project coordinator
• Mai Kamio – chorus
• Alisa Kikuchi – chorus
• Alexandra Knoll – oboe
• Winnie Lai – oboe
• Dan "D Unit" Levine – trombone
• Dan Levine – trombone
• Eleanor Miceli – chorus
• Taro Miceli – chorus
• Mayumi Miyata – sho
• Umeda Miyuki – assistant engineer
• Tony Morgan – design
• Nico Muhly – conductor, keyboards, preparation, score preparation
• Shiro Nomura – vocals
• Shonosuke Okura – percussion, chant
• Will Oldham – vocals
• Guðrún Óskarsdóttir – harpsichord
• Eiríkur Örn Pálsson – trumpet
• Zeena Parkins – harp
• Dean Plank – trombone
• Sigurður S. Porbergsson – trombone
• Sturla Pórisson – assistant engineer
• Akira Rabelais – piano treatments
• Matt Ryle – production design
• Einar St. Jónsson – trumpet
• Christopher Seguine – post production supervisor, post producer
• Jónas Sen – celeste
• Shogo Senda – chorus
• Raku Shigematsu – chorus
• Valgeir Sigurðsson – keyboards, programming, producer, engineer, mixing, beat programming
• Samuel Solomon – percussion, glockenspiel, crotale
• Peter Strietmann – photography, photography director
• Henry Takizawa – chorus
• Merrill Takizawa – chorus
• Takahiro Uchida – engineer
• Kuniyoshi Ueda – arranger, translation
• Paul P Dub Walton – mixing
• Chris Washburn – trombone
• Tommy Webster – assistant engineer
• Chris Winget – photography

External links

• Drawing Restraint 9 Special on bjork.com