Max Cooper On Being 3D/AV Live
Max Cooper brings his On Being North American Tour to Gray Area for two nights of stunning live A/V electronic music.
About On Being
Acclaimed musician, audio-visual artist, sound designer and creative Max Cooper releases
latest masterwork album project, On Being. Following Unspoken Words in 2022 and released on his own Mesh platform, the new album is the latest in a vast portfolio of work and an impressive back catalogue. 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, the audio-visual artist and electronic innovator Max Cooper has inverted the creative process by collecting hundreds of anonymous quotes, posing a deep but open question, "What would you like to express which you cannot in everyday life?" The goal: to understand what it is like to be human right now. The result: his incredible new album On Being 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.