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Max Cooper releases new single, Leaving This Place
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 28 May 2021
Max Cooper has released new single ‘Leaving This Place’, taken from his upcoming EP ‘Maps’. Written during a period of isolation, Cooper threw himself wholeheartedly into the recording of the track, building up dense layers of sound.
“I stuck with the same principles of space and feeling from the EP in general, by mixing the pads, the slowly evolving atmospheric synth parts louder in the mix, and the percussion quieter, save for a kick filtered right down”, he says. “So the mix took on an engulfing quality. I also added a lot of layers of binaural elements and small synth jams to further this atmosphere and yield a strange space around you with headphone listening, and I pretty much avoided adding any big drums”.
As for the Jazer Giles-directed video that accompanies the single, he goes on: “I was drawn to the work of Jazer Giles which, for me, has a beautiful balance of computational and organic form. It’s rich with structure and rules, but also full of a sort of wrongness that signifies art from a human. And it’s also deep with sub-systems and details, there’s a lot hidden in there as there is with the music, if you’re interested to delve into it with headphones and high res”.
The title of the EP, ‘Maps’, relates to its relationship to other artforms, with choreography, dance, film and music all mapped onto each other to create a wider whole.
“A map is the representation of one structure in terms of another”, explains Cooper. “Each creative provided their own mapping, not of some literal structure or brief, but of the feelings, movements, textures, the felt form of what was presented, which carried so much intent from the outset and filtered through the whole process”.
Cooper is set to play live at Grand Central Hall in Liverpool on 3 Jul. He’ll also be playing the Roundhouse in London on 30 Apr 2022.
Watch the video for ‘Leaving This Place’ here:
