Music: Everything - Max Cooper
Video: Nick Cobby
Additional footage: Andrey Prokhorov
Additional footage: Pedro Salas
MAX COOPER 宣布新专辑 Unspoken Words 于 3 月 25 日在 Mesh 上发布 - 带有来自项目“Everything”的主打单曲及其随附的视频。
“Everything”是自由和欢乐的激动人心的表达，色彩的爆炸参考了 Max Cooper 成长时期的经典合成器声音以及 80 和 90 年代音乐和流行文化中理想主义的黄金时代。
“我喜欢感觉一切皆有可能。感觉就像我快要爆发了，需要找到一些表达方式，”Cooper 说。“合成器似乎承载了我能想象到的一切的希望，浓缩成简单的和弦进行，即兴垫和失真层。与它一起工作很有趣，花时间在这种创造性的心态中产生了很多想法，这些想法可能会在不那么狂躁的情况下被击落。”
作为一名视听艺术家，Cooper 经常使用视频媒体来增强他的音乐以及激发和启发他的作品的想法和故事。 “Everything”是 13 部短片之一，结合了 Unspoken Words 和 metanarrative，将于 3 月 25 日以蓝光电影的形式发行，以配合专辑。Cooper 与长期合作者 Nick Cobby 和摄影师 Andrey Prokhorov 共同开发了“Everything”的视觉故事，后者拥有来自世界各地的庞大图像库。
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Max Cooper, talking about the direction of 'Everything':
"This chapter of the Unspoken Words story is about our capacity for positive change via idealism. The video project shows footage of everything, contained inside us. We are aware of an outside world, but ultimately; everything is experienced internally, and much of what may seem hopelessly out of our control need not be so. That’s the idealistic idea which I applied personally, musically and visually.
I started the music when I was in need of something to give me a push forward. Sometimes a high energy classic synth explosion is the recipe for the job. It created the feeling that anything seemed possible, a fresh belief with a touch of ignorance that’s essential for new ideas to emerge free from the constraining baggage of old failures. The synths seemed to carry the hope of everything I could imagine, condensed into the simple chord progression, improvised pads and layers of distortion. It was a lot of fun to work with, and spending time in that creative mindset generated lots of ideas.
For the visual story I worked with my long term collaborator Nick Cobby, along with the photographer Andrey Prokhorov. Andrey has a huge library of imagery from around the world and I wanted to try and put everything inside the minds and bodies of the people of Mexico City, where Nick is based, in order to mirror the explosion of feelings and ideas of the music in visual form. It tells the story of our escape from constraints as we move towards the final mental expansion of the narrative.
Culum Simpson designed the spatial structure of the Dolby Atmos mix in a similar manner to that of the original stereo mix, with full power immersion from all sides, and an ever growing barrage of sound from the ceiling and walls."