6/1/2023 0 Comments Infinite inspirit albumThe album alternates between extended washes of sound and the seemingly random synth sequencing of tracks “Parting Ways” and “Perpetual Motion”– tunes that have deceptively simple melodies and beats, but which Cooper ornaments with detailed sound design and rhythmic one-shots that musically fit the narrative of humanity’s constant movement and development. The intro track, “Let There Be”, heralds Yearning for the Infinite’s sonic expanse, with chord changes, moods, and textures that recall Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, as well as the ambient electronic work of both Vangelis’ (circa Blade Runner) and Jon Hopkins’ Immunity. There is also a notably new degree of improvisational depth. Commissioned by The Barbican Centre, a performing arts institution in London, Cooper’s latest multimedia project examines the human impulse to want, build, dream, and fight endlessly.Īs a musical document, Yearning for the Infinite sits comfortably next to Cooper’s previous ambient techno and IDM outings, but with a vastness befitting the title. For 2018’s One Hundred Billion Sparks, each track on the LP is a score, as Cooper described it upon release, to a “story stemming from this system of one hundred billion sparking neurons, which create us.” For his latest project, Yearning for the Infinite, Cooper delivers another high-concept audiovisual album. It was with Emergence that Cooper found his preferred format – the audiovisual album. The London-based artist’s 2016 album Emergence, explored occurrences in nature of individual parts coalescing into a unified whole – such as the murmuration of starlings – and paired each song with a music video that described an emergent phenomenon through data visualizations. But the music bug bit him back in 2010, and Cooper fused his intellectual curiosity for science and technology with the vast sonic and expressive potential of electronic music. ![]() ![]() ![]() By now, it’s well known that Cooper studied computational biology, and briefly worked as a geneticist at University College London. Electronic producer and visual artist Max Cooper has never lacked curiosity and ambition.
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