My forthcoming album On Being is out on 28 Feb 2025 on Mesh ► Tour dates: https://www.maxcooper.net/event ► Subscribe to channel: @maxcoopermax ► Join Max’s newsletter: https://os.fan/MaxCooper/SignUp ► Listen to single: https://ffm.to/on_being_ ► Pre-order '12” Triple gatefold vinyl' [Limited Edition] ‘On Being': https://ffm.to/on_being_ "I exist inside this machine for a short while. Constrained by its structure, somehow feeling that I am more, but unable to comprehend. Then I am gone. What should I make of this?" The anonymous quote arrived on Cooper's album website after he asked “What do you want to express, which you feel you can’t in everyday life?”, which went on to be the title of his latest album single with Aneek Thapar. Using thousands of anonymous quotes as inspiration, the On Being album attempts to capture the experience of being human in the modern age. Whether it is the confines of our mortal bodies, the constraints of our genetics, the oppressive demands of nine-to-five routines, or the increasingly invasive infiltrations of surveillance technology and artificial intelligence, we both are, and live inside, machines. Max Cooper: I found this beautiful quote on the database which resonated with my own experience of life in a way I wanted to express musically and visually. I had tackled a connected theme some 10 years ago with Henning M. Lederer for "Numb", so I went back to Henning to chat about how things have changed since then, and how we could update the story with the barrage of competing ideas and influences we live amongst now, and their connection to our system of consumption and development. In parallel I was playing with new percussive techniques with Aneek Thapar, sending drums through his modular system with industrial crunch on the output, and it all connected up as a musical storytelling device. Many thanks to all of you who submitted your thoughts as part of the project, you might find them embedded in Henning’s project - if you do find any I’d love to hear from you so I can put a face to the words I’ve been spending my last few years with. Henning M. Lederer: This is now! The capitalist machine is expanding and evolving. The result: A complex, merciless, maybe even pointless conglomeration of visual stimuli – raising questions and wondering what is going on? Digital devices everywhere, the economic machinery running ever faster, communication no longer makes sense. This video is a snapshot of the present, without knowing where we are heading next. CREDITS: Video: Henning M. Lederer https://www.instagram.com/henning.m.l... https://led-r-r.net/ Music: “I Exist Inside This Machine” - Max Cooper https://www.instagram.com/maxcooperma... https://maxcooper.net/ Aneek Thapar https://www.instagram.com/aneek_thapa... https://www.aneek-thapar.com ℗ 2025 Mesh © 2025 Manners McDade / Faber Music Publishing Limited Mastered by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering Ltd Record label: Mesh https://meshmeshmesh.net + https://www.instagram.com/meshmeshmes... Management: The Wild Seeds https://www.thewildseeds.com + https://www.instagram.com/the_wild_se... All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper and Mesh - no use without permission.
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Documenting the creative process of making 'Seme', a new live show commission by Salzburg Osterfestspiele. The EP of this project is also out now on Mesh, and features Sarah Aristidou, Kim Sheehan, Niels Orens, Tom Hodge and Kwake Bass… sopranos, cello, piano, live drums and of course taking some influences from the clubs to the concert halls. Listen at https://ffm.to/seme

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