What do you want to express that you feel you can’t in everyday life? Asking a question to all of you who were listening to my last album, set a path to this new one. Many thanks to all of you for putting forward so many feelings to work with.
It began when I started reading the database of thoughts. It was like finding a secret window into our collective psyche, and discovering amongst the chaos, pleasure and pain, so many experiences that we share at different times of our lives, and an overwhelming sense of emotions and connections that I had to explore.
Usually I render my own thoughts and feelings and find out later whether they resonate with others or not. Now I could start from the resonant thoughts at source, and make my own interpretations of those musically and visually. It was intense. The quotes carry so much weight. Individually they are extreme, but as a whole collection I found it quite overwhelming. I tried to channel that through into the music, so we have something more intense than my usual, particularly for the moments when I tackled the most brutal of the quotes. The album website is now live with my thoughts and themes from the record.
The album is available in Dolby Atmos created with the great Richard Burki at Future Phonic Studios for the full spatial audio experience.
If you wrote any of the quotes appearing in this project I’d love to hear from you so I can put a face to the words I’ve spent my last few years with. As the majority of quotes were submitted anonymously (shout outs to May Kaspar, Robbie Evans and New Age Punk who feature on the record via your quote submissions). Thank you to you all.
Big thank you to all my musical collaborators - Felix Gerbelot, Aneek Thapar, Tawiah, May Gaspar, Aho Ssan, Niels Orens and Tom VR.
Huge thanks to all the visual collaborators: Ksawery Komputery, Daniel Wenzel, Andy Lomas, Hiroki Akamoto, Kevin McGloughlin, Páraic McGloughlin, Henning M. Lederer, Michael McAffee, Simon Kounovsky, Masanobu Hiraoka, Jean-Baptiste Friquet, Xavier Chassaing and Frederik Vanhoutte.
Max Cooper
On Being - my new album is out today.
What do you want to express that you feel you can’t in everyday life? Asking a question to all of you who were listening to my last album, set a path to this new one. Many thanks to all of you for putting forward so many feelings to work with.
It began when I started reading the database of thoughts. It was like finding a secret window into our collective psyche, and discovering amongst the chaos, pleasure and pain, so many experiences that we share at different times of our lives, and an overwhelming sense of emotions and connections that I had to explore.
Usually I render my own thoughts and feelings and find out later whether they resonate with others or not. Now I could start from the resonant thoughts at source, and make my own interpretations of those musically and visually. It was intense. The quotes carry so much weight. Individually they are extreme, but as a whole collection I found it quite overwhelming. I tried to channel that through into the music, so we have something more intense than my usual, particularly for the moments when I tackled the most brutal of the quotes. The album website is now live with my thoughts and themes from the record.
The album is available in Dolby Atmos created with the great Richard Burki at Future Phonic Studios for the full spatial audio experience.
Listen here: ffm.to/on_being_
If you wrote any of the quotes appearing in this project I’d love to hear from you so I can put a face to the words I’ve spent my last few years with. As the majority of quotes were submitted anonymously (shout outs to May Kaspar, Robbie Evans and New Age Punk who feature on the record via your quote submissions). Thank you to you all.
Big thank you to all my musical collaborators - Felix Gerbelot, Aneek Thapar, Tawiah, May Gaspar, Aho Ssan, Niels Orens and Tom VR.
Huge thanks to all the visual collaborators:
Ksawery Komputery, Daniel Wenzel, Andy Lomas, Hiroki Akamoto, Kevin McGloughlin, Páraic McGloughlin, Henning M. Lederer, Michael McAffee, Simon Kounovsky, Masanobu Hiraoka, Jean-Baptiste Friquet, Xavier Chassaing and Frederik Vanhoutte.
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