Ultraam is an improvising psychedelic noise rock spazz free jazz band. Based in and around the Hudson Valley, Ultraam is: 

Matthew Cullen (guitars/Aztec death whistle)
Mark Ferraro (pocket trumpet)
D. James Goodwin (keys/analog synths/sax)
Sean Mackowiak (guitars/clarinet)
Jeff Mercel (drums/percussion)
Chris Turco (drums/percussion)
Eli Walker (bass)

Stationary Travels is a personal music blog covering ambient, electroacoustic, modern classical, post rock & experimental music.  Outside of ST, I enjoy a variety of other genres which you may see mixed in here as well.  Please feel welcome to follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress (links below).  If you are an artist and would like to submit something for consideration of promotion or review, you can message me to discuss the details. 

 "He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly" - Martha Medeiros

Brooklyn indie label embracing the sounds of Marco Benevento, JFJO, Superhuman Happiness, Yellowbirds, Robert Walter, Mike Dillon, Grayson Capps, Sexmob, Allison Miller, Neal Casal, Willie Sugarcapps & more.

Based in the Hudson Valley of New York State, Jeff is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Lunescapes Volume One  (released March 30, 2018 via The Satellite Union & Psychic Troubles Tapes) is Jeff's first full-length, solo release. Recorded at home (mostly in the kitchen, on a sometimes unruly upright piano) the Lunescapes offer a series of instrumental vignettes, intimate landscapes, and lo-fi fantasies. The writing and recording for volume two  is ongoing and will be finished later in 2018.

From 1998-2011, Jeff was also a member of the band Mercury Rev - contributing to some of the band's most critically acclaimed work, including Deserter's Songs, All Is Dream, and more. It was with the band that he gained his first opportunity to write for picture, composing and producing the original score for Robinson Savary's debut feature-length film, Bye Bye Blackbird.

In addition to his ongoing solo work and work for film, television & commercial advertising, Jeff is an active session musician and current member of several groups, including: Miracle Whips (PDX-based, porch-rock dream team) and the improvisational, noise-rock/spazz-jazz collective, otherwise known as Ultraam. When not in the studio, he can be found fly-fishing the legendary streams of the Catskill Mountains.

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Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.

He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events.  Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all. 
 
As an artist synonymous with the evolution of club culture, Cooper honed his craft as a DJ with a 10 year residency at legendary Midlands techno event Firefly where he formed a foundational relationship with Architecture Social Club, with whom he still collaborates on extravagant immersive installations.

"I want to encourage the acceptance of electronic music as an art form like any other. Bringing electronic music and abstract audio-visual projects into concert halls, museums and galleries is liberating - the art world opens up doors to communicate in ways that aren’t possible elsewhere."
  
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious:
 
"In both fields, you're in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

www.maxcooper.net 

Contacts:
Management: James Palmer-Bullock, The Wild Seeds - james@thewildseeds.com 
Label: Anthony Faulkner, Mesh – anthony@thewildseeds.com 
PR: Neil Bainbridge, Neighbourhood PR - neil@nbhd-group.com 
Radio: Matthew Maxey, Enganche - matthew@enganche.co.uk

An independent record label based in New Paltz NY and North Haven ME.

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