Tectonics 2022 Artist Profile
Mike Cooper currently lives in Valencia in Spain and for the past 60 years he has been an international traveller and musical explorer pushing the boundaries and borders of his music and art. He is also a film and video maker, visual and installation artist and composes and performs live music for classic and contemporary silent films. He most recently wrote and recorded the score for the feature documentary film Cane Fire directed by Anthony Banua - Simon and his most recent cd is Oceans Of Milk And Treacle on Room40 Records which includes a booklet of early collage works.
He has to date released 70 solo records, 37 primary collaborations and appears on 26 other releases.
“Cooper’s music, in any of its forms, seems drunk on the intermingling of folk traditions, searching for a spot between them all that renders the strange familiar and vice versa. He is an improvisatory musician, one who generates his music in sheets, loops, and layers, and he seems to accrete these found-sound albums like a spider spins silk, or a vine grows pumpkins. They just appear, fattened and ripe, the fruits of his memories, travels, and idiosyncrasies.” - Pitchfork Review.
