Electronic composer Max Cooper has announced a new album, Feeling Is Structure, set for release on 8th May.
The forthcoming record sees Cooper leaning further into the intersection between science, architecture and sound. Across its ten tracks, the producer explores the relationship between inner emotional landscapes and the physical structures that shape our lives, translating those ideas into intricate electronic compositions.
The album will be released digitally and as a limited triple-vinyl edition, and will also form the basis of a new immersive audiovisual live project. One of the centrepieces of that project is a performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, with Australian electronic artist HAAi confirmed as support.
Discussing the album’s origins, Cooper says the concept grew directly out of preparing music for the Royal Albert Hall performance.
“I’m fascinated by architects who can imbue brutalist buildings with humanity, or artists who can paint a block of colour representing their soul,” he explains. “We have this remarkable capacity to spill ourselves into the world through form. When I began working on a show for the Royal Albert Hall, that connection between large-scale physical structures and feeling took over, and this album emerged from that process.”
For Cooper, the album builds on a long-standing interest in the ways structure and emotion intertwine across disciplines.
“Mappings between structures and feelings are important. They connect art and science, and they enrich how we experience the world. Imagine life without music, that’s just one abstract structure we all connect with. There are many more.”
Lead single ‘Pattern Index’ is available now. The track unfolds as a detailed piece of electronic world-building, built from shifting rhythmic patterns that gradually lock together into something sweeping and expansive.
Feeling Is Structure arrives on 8th May.
Tracklist
- Pattern Index
- Becoming
- The Shape Of Memory
- Splintered Air Between Us
- Obsessive Compulsive Order
- Bass Mosaic
- This Is A Bridge (with Sorcery)
- Four Tones Reflected
- Ebb And Flow
- Chrysalis
