Max Cooper - SEME - Behind the Scenes Episode 3: Mozart, synthesizers, computers

Ahead of my immersive live shows at Salzburg Easter Festival and London’s Barbican Centre - a behind the scenes documentary by @wilderthorn presenting the creative process of ‘Seme’. ► Listen to ‘Seme’ EP: ► Tour dates: ► Subscribe to channel: @maxcoopermax/videos ► Sign up to my mailer join our Mesh community on Discord: Warning: Contains flashing images Episode 3 - An introduction by Max Cooper: “Salzburg Easter Festival commissioned me to make a new project, which resulted in ‘Seme’. Salzburg is the city of Mozart, and I think one connection between music of then and now is to acknowledge the development of timbre. Historically we were limited to particular instruments and voices, each sounding as they do; composers set about making amazing melodic and rhythmical trickery with the relatively limited set of available timbres. But when synthesisers arrived, and the infinitude of computational techniques that followed, timbre exploded. Now whole genres are focused on timbre, including huge amounts of electronic music. Personally I love melody and harmony. Alongside rhythm, dynamics and spatiality and timbre, these are our basic building blocks for creating music. For me, it’s a tool to communicate emotions and deliver an experience.“ ► Listen to ‘Seme’ EP: ► Buy tickets: * About Seme: * ‘Seme’ is the latest project in my vast portfolio of work. Invited by the prestigious Salzburg Easter Festival to create a new show for the opera and classical music festival, I have drawn upon Italy’s rich cultural past by combining historic Italian musical and elegant visual aesthetics with modern audio, visual and theatrical techniques. For more information, visit CREDITS MUSIC: Palestrina Sicut - Max Cooper featuring Sarah Aristidou, Kim Sheehan, Tom Hodge, Niels Orens ℗ 2024 Mesh © 2024 Faber Music Publishing Limited Mastered by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering FILM“ Director: Jon Bilbrough AKA Wilderthorn @wilderthorn Producer: James Palmer-Bullock Camera & Edit : Jon Bilbrough Contains original footage by Tegid Cartwright (‘Live at the Barbican’) ‘Seme’ collaborators: Show design and art direction - Architecture Social Club Cello and modular synth - Niels Orens Vocals - Sarah Aristidou and Kim Sheehan Piano - Tom Hodge Drums - Kwake Bass Mastering - Aneek Thapar Visual artists: Quayola Mario Carillo Yoshi Sodeoko Uisato Record label: Mesh Management: The Wild Seeds PR: Neighbourhood PR All video & audio copyright is owned by Max Cooper and Mesh - no use without permission.