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...played a lot of that music while we were making it. That’s when the movie starts to get a feel. We listened to Radiohead and “Kid A” constantly, especially here in New York. And then the band Sigur Ros, from Iceland. Sigur Ros had never given their music to a movie, except I think a small movie in Iceland, and they let us use their music. That really influenced the movie. We couldn’t find the right piece of music to end the movie with, and I went...
...bomb sniffers and 3-D holographic body scanners to biometric, facial-recognition systems that can potentially be used to check passengers against an electronic national counterterrorism database. "Terrorists aren't born overnight. They are indoctrinated, schooled," says Joseph Atick, founder of Visionics, which has deployed its technology at an Iceland airport, at English stadiums to keep out soccer hooligans and, controversially, this summer in the entertainment district of downtown Tampa, Fla. "Somebody checks your credit card when you buy something. Why can't we check if you're a terrorist or not when you're boarding a plane?" Unfortunately, after...
This recording is Bjork's return to Iceland--or Scandinavia, at least--after a career of mixing cultures: posing as a Chinese woman in Asian dress on the cover of her last album, Homogenic, and collaborating in past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After...
...album's effects, she chose low-key noises that sound good when downloaded--acoustic instruments, a music box, a whispered voice. This also reflects tech-heavy Iceland, which has more cell phones and Internet connections per capita than any other country. If you lived on an island that is mostly flat, barren, rocky, frozen landscape, you would make sure you had an Internet connection...
Sigur Ros ICELAND The land of Bjork has produced several notable acts lately, including Emiliana Torrini and Mum. Sigur Ros, with its intoxicatingly eclectic sound, is winning fans worldwide. Key album: Agaetis Byrjun...