Following his latest audio-visual masterwork album, On Being, Max Cooper invites a curated list of remixers to provide new interpretations, out Friday 22nd August on all digital streaming platforms.

The remix collection boasts Lone, Bredren, Turtle and Sorcery along with Mesh artists Pleizel, Odalie and Throwing Snow - a collection of meaningful expressions across the electronic spectrum. 

Using a unique approach to composition in which he took inspiration from anonymous statements submitted by his audience in response to the question. "What do you want to express, which you feel you cannot in everyday life?". On Being reflects sincerely on a snapshot of the modern human psyche in all its shared experience of fragility, grief, suffering, dreams, hopes and joys.

“I hadn't realised the impact that other people's words on being would have on me” - Max Cooper 

From heartbreaking to hopeful, these confessions took Cooper’s ever-evolving creative process in a new direction - with profoundly intense results. Now, he opens up in those compositions to a diverse selection of artists , each offering their own interpretations to the album’s vast subject matter. Ranging from jungle and garage to cinematic ambient, the reworks look outward from Max’s originals.

Lone takes the melancholy of ‘A Sense of Getting Closer’ and levitates it in a swarm of jungle-tinged drums and wobbly bass. On his version of the same track, Amotik gives space for the original’s delicate synths to breathe over a stripped down arrangement of rolling kicks.

 For ‘My Choices Are Not My Own’, Throwing Snow flips the breaks-y intensity of the original into a 2-step cut of glistening vocals and seething noise. Turtle leans into the percussion, chopping up a 170bpm helix of drums that flutter under Taiwah’s contemplative lyrics.

In Max’s own words, “I got in touch with many of my favourite artists to put together this remixes collection, and it’s interesting hearing the collection as a whole for the first time. Much like the disparate collection of quotes reflecting our shared psyche which initially formed the music, now we also have a disparate collection of musical interpretations reflecting another shared psyche of sorts. And there’s a coherence running throughout, which seems to me a commentary on, and reaction to, where things are at. Barely an evenly spaced kick in sight, and a layer of intensity, discontent and frustration, running in parallel to beauty and playfulness. It’s a powerful collection of feelings, I hope you can find some in there which resonate with your own”.

On Being Remixes

My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah, May Kaspar (Turtle Remix)

A Sense Of Getting Closer (Lone remix)

When I Sit Alone. In My Thoughts. I Am Crushed (Sorcery Remix)

A Sense Of Getting Closer (Pleizel Remix)

My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah, May Kaspar (Throwing Snow Remix)

My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah, May Kaspar (Bredren remix)

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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