Max Cooper: Solace in Form

Autumn Bells

Fauna, Pt II

Huldra

Cold Water Music

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Helios - Embrace

BE COOL

cleaning the slate. these are a collection of tracks I made over the last 2 years, some finished, some unfinished, that will serve as a symbolic reference point to a new "era" of my music and whatever it is i've been doing online with this stuff for the last 10 years.

I will be back eventually with what I would hope would be my first "proper" album, whatever that means. when it will be, I don't know. maybe it'll eventually exist or maybe i'll just keep uploading whatever shit i make and calling it an album, end of the day its all music. for now, feel free to enjoy the 500+ tracks I've uploaded over the last 10 years. In the wise words of lil ugly mane, C U SOON! If you're reading this and give even the slightest damn about my music, I LOVE YOU!!

-Derrick

The Remnants

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And Their Refinement of the Decline

Articulate Silences, Pt. 2

Darwis

Sacred Feathers

My remix for the amazing Rob Clouth on Max Coopers Mesh Label.
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Transtion EP

Rob Clouth - Transition Ben Lukas Boysen Remix

Berlin based composer and producer Ben Lukas Boysen has announced the release of his third album, the progressive and shape-shifting 'Mirage', on 1 May 2020. It follows 2013’s 'Gravity' and the acclaimed 2016 full length 'Spells', a record as much admired by his peers as it was loved by fans that not only yielded remixes from Max Cooper and Tim Hecker, but also opened Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales compilation.

Since the release of 'Spells', Ben collaborated with cellist and composer Sebastian Plano on the score for David OReilly’s landmark innovative video game 'Everything'. It was added to the long list for the Best Animated Short at the 90th Academy Awards, making it the first video game to qualify for an Oscar. 

As with 'Gravity' and 'Spells', Ben has an array of musical guests adorning Mirage, including long time collaborator, Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller as well as Australian saxophonist and composer Daniel Thorne — for whom Ben wrote parts specifically, having heard his 2019 solo debut 'Lines of Sight'. Lead track 'Medela' features both and takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey that slides with ease across sonic terrains.

While on 'Spells' Ben made programmed pieces sound indistinguishable from human playing, with 'Mirage' he set out to do the opposite and make the human touch unrecognisable, creating something of a mystery or a mirage.

“A lot of the elements and instruments you hear on the album are either not what you think they are, or exactly what you think they are but behave differently or they’re elements you definitely know but they are hidden, processed, or morphed into something else. With 'Spells' and 'Gravity' I was trying to hide the machines. On 'Mirage', I’m trying to hide the human” — Ben Lukas Boysen

Mirage

Medela

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Ben Lukas Boysen - Medela

Solar Year - Magic Idea (Snasen Remix)

Emergence

Seed (feat. Kathrin deBoer)

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Some of London-based electronic songwriter Ryan Lee West’s most recognised work to date comes in the shape of spontaneous EP or so-called mini album releases— clocking in just under the 40-minute mark, keeping their contents urgent, immediate and to the point.

As with his 2013 EP Odyssey and 2014’s Sonne, which were later compiled to a full-length release titled Odyssey / Sonne in 2015, there is a similarly strong synergy between his 2016 mini album Night Melody and this year’s Articulation. Bundled together to one long player under the title Night Melody / Articulation, digital formats including a bonus remix by Berlin-based Japanese pianist and producer Midori Hirano are available from today, November 24, 2020 — with the CD version on pre-order and shipping mid December.

His 34-minute, 6-track mini album Night Melody was born out of and shaped by long hours working into the night. It’s nocturnal in sound; mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are.

The opening statement Pattern Of The North starts off with a collage of spliced synth melodies, inspired by anxiety that accompanies going home for Christmas. It’s followed by Johannesburg, an early sketch gradually filled out during his tour in South Africa. The closing statement What Sorrow is a fitting end to the album, building from gentle melancholia to a joyous crescendo. It’s a sensibility that’s central to the record; joy and sorrow both find their counterpoints.

July 31, 2020 saw the release of his highly anticipated new album Articulation with an equal running time of 34 minutes. Lead track and album centrepiece ‘Articulation’ links the record back to the analogue fluidity and colour of 2016’s Night Melody. The division of varying time signatures, intertwined with a complex structure of notes, creates an expression of a moving structure and conjures a dreamy, motorik energy.

Articulation was conceived with a very visual way of thinking, unusual for the London musician and producer. During the writing process Ryan drew structures, shapes and patterns by hand to try and find new ways of thinking about music, giving himself a way to problem-solve away from the computer. The album title references a piece by the avant-garde contemporary composer Györgi Ligeti, though not for its music, but for the non-traditional graphic score that accompanied it.

The idea of using analogue drawings and tools to bolster digital creations can be heard in the structure of the pieces that make up Articulation from the broody techno opener ‘Vibrations on a String’ all the way to the album’s boundless closer ‘Sudden Awareness of Now’. Rising out of birdsong heard from his studio window, it has a particular urgency about it and seems to perfectly capture a
longing for escape. Built around a simple and repetitive melodic theme, expanding and retracting over the course of its seven-minute odyssey.

Tracklist / Cover Artwork:
1. Pattern of the North
2. Johannesburg
3. Slow Song
4. Lone
5. Night Melody
6. What Sorrow
7. Vibrations on a String
8. Forwardism
9. Melodica
10. Articulation
11. Still Here
12. Sudden Awareness of Now

Night Melody / Articulation

Articulation (Midori Hirano Remix)

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Rival Consoles - Articulation (Midori Hirano Remix)

Main synth part for Untravel, creating with the prophet 8, this is a synth part that I am most proud of, because it has so much subtle in it, yet it is over edited at all, this was made very quickly and intuitively.

Untravel - Main Synth

Emotive high-definition sonics.

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Musik war schon immer ein ganz wesentlicher Bestandteil & ein treuer Begleiter in meinem Leben. Musik ist für mich ein Antreiber, ein tragendes Element, sie lässt mich Gefühle fühlen & mich spüren, gibt mir Kraft & lässt mich Energie schöpfen. Musik hilft mir, genauso wie meine tägliche Yogapraxis, mich mit mir selbst zu verbinden & in einen besseren Kontakt mit mir selbst zu kommen und gibt mir ebenfalls Ruhe und Entspannung. 

Musik ist Verbindung, Verbindung zu sich Selbst und zu seinen Mitmenschen! Musik lässt uns fühlen, lässt uns spüren, lässt uns in Kontakt mit uns selbst und mit anderen Menschen kommen. „Musik ist der soziale Klebstoff unserer Gesellschaft.“ (Dominik Eulberg)

Sozialisiert durch Punk, Hardcore und Metal habe ich über die letzten fünf Jahre meinen Weg zur elektronischen Musik gefunden und eine musikalische Evolution durchlebt, welche ich mir nicht mehr anders vorstellen kann! :-) 

Elektronische Musik erzählt Geschichten, lässt uns emotionale Reisen durchleben…. die Beats sind die Herzschläge und das ganze Sound- und Klangspektakel drumherum (ob harmonisch oder disharmonisch,  rhythmisch oder vertrackt, chaotisch oder voller Harmonie und im Einklang) das bunte Treiben des Lebens.

Ich liebe Musik und genauso ist es mir eine Herzensangelegenheit Musik weiterzuempfehlen…ich möchte andere daran teilhaben lassen. Musik verbindet & sagt mehr als tausend Worte! Deshalb möchte ich die Musik sprechen lassen und poste sonntags  „Das Set zum Sonntag“ , ein Set aus dem Bereich der elektronischen Musik, welches mir persönlich sehr am Herzen liegt, Sets welche mich selbst sehr berühren.

Musik war schon immer ein ganz wichtiger Bestandteil & ein treuer Begleiter in meinem Leben. Ich möchte hiermit kein Geld verdienen oder so, sondern einfach andere Menschen daran teilhaben lassen und das Gegebene in der Welt verbreiten.

Herzliche Grüße & Namaste` 🙏
Lass die Sonne rein…smile & breathe :-)
Thomas

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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

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