Björk

Much of the writing and recording of Vulnicura took place at Björk’s New York home, where she has the ultimate 21st Century studio. The total music–tech content consists of an Avid Pro Tools HD Native Thunderbolt system, Genelec 1032 monitors (“I like them a lot, they sound very creamy. But they can be deceptive, because everything sounds good in them. So you have to be a little careful.”), an M–Audio controller, a Telefunken ELAM 251 microphone and Neve 1081 mic preamp.

Much of the writing and recording of Vulnicura took place at Björk’s New York home, where she has the ultimate 21st Century studio. The total music–tech content consists of an Avid Pro Tools HD Native Thunderbolt system, Genelec 1032 monitors (“I like them a lot, they sound very creamy. But they can be deceptive, because everything sounds good in them. So you have to be a little careful.”), an M–Audio controller, a Telefunken ELAM 251 microphone and Neve 1081 mic preamp.

Björk's vocal on Unravel was recorded with an SM58, according to a Waves webinar with producer & co-writer Guy Sigsworth (at 37:45): "I have even made really popular records with SM58s. Björk's vocals on Unravel are SM58, and they were just great performances, didn't mind about the mic."

The Casio SA-10 is seen in this video about Björk's 1994 studio, starting 0:10

It can be seen among the rest of his equipment.

In the article Bjork states "I play my string arrangements on the keyboard or in Sibelius, but more and more I am using Melodyne to do complex arrangements with my voice. I will then copy those arrangements over to the strings.”

"Damian Taylor employed Max to create alternative creative environments for Björk to conjure within"

The Yamaha QY20 is seen in this video about Björk's 1994 studio, starting 0:10

The Tascam 464 is seen in this video about Björk's 1994 studio, starting 0:10

The Yamaha SU10 is seen in The South Bank Show’s 1997 documentary on Björk, starting 37:20:

I used to work quite a lot with QY20. That’s a different machine but same size and you have 8 tracks and 100 noises and you can make as many songs as you want and a lot of my tunes for the last 4 years I wrote on that. It’s so incredibly convenient. You put the batteries in and you can write on the airplane or your grand’s house or the top of a volcano or in a club or in a tube and this is a different machine this is like a sampler. Mark Bell bought this one and he’s just teaching me it.

A Roland TR-909 can be seen as part of Björk's home studio in Spain in this video at 30:26.

in this video at 30:37, Björk can be seen at her Spanish home studio using her Tascam DA-60 DAT recorder.

These headphones can be seen as part of Björk's home studio in Spain in this video at 30:26, 42:00 and so on.

Much of the writing and recording of Vulnicura took place at Björk’s New York home, where she has the ultimate 21st Century studio. The total music–tech content consists of an Avid Pro Tools HD Native Thunderbolt system, Genelec 1032 monitors (“I like them a lot, they sound very creamy. But they can be deceptive, because everything sounds good in them. So you have to be a little careful.”), an M–Audio controller, a Telefunken ELAM 251 microphone and Neve 1081 mic preamp.

"With Vespertine [2001] I recorded all sorts of noises around the house, very quiet ones, and I then magnified them up in Pro Tools, and created rhythms with them. It took me like three years, very enjoyable, but it was like crocheting a huge blanket with a tiny needle." - Björk interview by Paul Tingen

She has never really played traditional instruments very much, “which is why I was so excited about the laptop in 1999. I learned to use Sibelius in that year, and most of Vespertine was done on Sibelius — all the music boxes, harps, glockenspiels, and so on. It was the same with ‘Ambergris March’ [from Drawing Restraint 9, a soundtrack album she made in 2005 with Matthew Barney]."

In her DJ set at Carriageworks, Björk is using Logic Pro X.