On Being
by Max Cooper
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Never has electronic music felt so emotive.
Favorite track: My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album3 X Triple gatefold pressed onto black 180g vinyl, shrink-wrapped colour printed sleeves and centre labels.
Includes unlimited streaming of On Being via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 10 daysPurchasable with gift card£32 GBP or more
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12" Triple Gatefold - 140g Clear Vinyl [Limited Edition]
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album3 X Triple gatefold pressed onto clear 140g vinyl, shrink-wrapped colour printed sleeves and centre labels.
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On Being Scarf
Other ApparelSome lovely new meshy On Being scarfs to keep you warm, by Harry Yates.
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100% acrylic wool
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about
Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains and aspirations back to us?
Over a two year journey, audio-visual artist and electronic innovator Max Cooper has inverted the creative process by collecting hundreds of anonymous quotes, posing deep but open questions such as "What would you like to express which you cannot in everyday life?" and "What is it like to exist inside your head?"
The goal: to understand what it is truly like to be human right now. The result: his new album On Being, to be released in February 2025.
With On Being, Cooper aimed to probe under the synthetic surface of social media to "create a snapshot of our minds these days," as he puts it by asking people to share anonymously what they dare not ever say publicly. The result is an emotionally raw and shockingly honest kaleidoscope of confessions, ranging from suicide contemplations to miserable marriages to simple pure loneliness, contrasting with hundreds of anonymous confessions of love and longing.
"I was interested in the way I interact with people for my writing process, which usually involves a one-way communication of feelings and ideas that I later find out whether they resonate with others or not," says Cooper.
"With this I could start instead with people's thoughts and feelings, what resonates for them, and make my own interpretations of those musically and visually, and then send those back out to everyone. It's more of a collaborative approach to making an album, and more intense."
Grief, hope, regret, joy, hurt and love form the basis for each track, taking Cooper's ever-evolving creative process in a completely new direction - with profoundly intense results.
"Rendering the experience of being is at the core of what I do musically - but I hadn't realised the impact that other people's words on being would have on me until I started reading the database of thoughts," he says.
"It was like finding a secret window into everyone's minds, and discovering amongst the chaos, pleasure and pain, the experiences that we... more
Over a two year journey, audio-visual artist and electronic innovator Max Cooper has inverted the creative process by collecting hundreds of anonymous quotes, posing deep but open questions such as "What would you like to express which you cannot in everyday life?" and "What is it like to exist inside your head?"
The goal: to understand what it is truly like to be human right now. The result: his new album On Being, to be released in February 2025.
With On Being, Cooper aimed to probe under the synthetic surface of social media to "create a snapshot of our minds these days," as he puts it by asking people to share anonymously what they dare not ever say publicly. The result is an emotionally raw and shockingly honest kaleidoscope of confessions, ranging from suicide contemplations to miserable marriages to simple pure loneliness, contrasting with hundreds of anonymous confessions of love and longing.
"I was interested in the way I interact with people for my writing process, which usually involves a one-way communication of feelings and ideas that I later find out whether they resonate with others or not," says Cooper.
"With this I could start instead with people's thoughts and feelings, what resonates for them, and make my own interpretations of those musically and visually, and then send those back out to everyone. It's more of a collaborative approach to making an album, and more intense."
Grief, hope, regret, joy, hurt and love form the basis for each track, taking Cooper's ever-evolving creative process in a completely new direction - with profoundly intense results.
"Rendering the experience of being is at the core of what I do musically - but I hadn't realised the impact that other people's words on being would have on me until I started reading the database of thoughts," he says.
"It was like finding a secret window into everyone's minds, and discovering amongst the chaos, pleasure and pain, the experiences that we... more
credits
released February 28, 2025
Written, mixed and produced by Max Cooper.
Published by Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd.
Mastering by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering.
Artwork by Minjeong An
Written, mixed and produced by Max Cooper.
Published by Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd.
Mastering by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering.
Artwork by Minjeong An
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Max Cooper London, UK
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.
For more information, follow here:
maxcooper.net
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meshmeshmesh.net
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Mar 22Johanneshov, Sweden
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Apr 3Marseille, France
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Apr 4Lyon, France
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Apr 6Norwich, UK
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May 2London, UK
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May 10Brighton, UK
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May 21Thessaloníki, Greece
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Jun 12Barcelona, Spain
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Aug 8Pasewalk, Germany
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Nov 13Utrecht, Netherlands
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