"REPETITION" YES, I'M REPEATING MYSELF, AND MORE...

 


"REPETITION"



          YES, I'M REPEATING MYSELF, 

                                                                         MORE, 

                                                                                               AND MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

  

I THINK WE'VE ALL SEEN THIS PIECE. 

I POSTED IT ON ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER ON F/BOOK MANY YEARS AGO... 

BUT A LITTLE REPETITION MAY STILL GO A LONG WAY.

 


IS THERE ANY ONE AMONG YOU WHO HAS NOT REPEATED HER/HIM/SELF? 


I LOVE THIS WORK AND FEAR IT ALSO.


THE LANDSCAPE AROUND MY COUNTRY RETREAT IS FILLING UP 

    WITH BUILDINGS, CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS AND BITUMEN ROADS... 


SOON THE LANDSCAPE WILL BE GONE.


BUT  ALL THESE THINGS WE BUILD UPON THE LANDSCAPE 

CAN BE SWEPT AWAY, CAN'T THEY?


Repetition - Max Cooper from Kevin McGloughlin on Vimeo.


KEVIN MCGLOUGHLIN:
'Repetition' is an attempt to convey the importance of our endless endeavours toward human development and growth amidst a chaotic and disorienting landscape.

The struggle for a fruitful future is challenging with the distractions of everyday life alongside its ever-growing technological 'advancements'.

The hope is for humanity to strive through all of this in a meaningful and positive way.

Directed:
Kevin McGloughlin
kevinmcgloughlin.com
instagram.com/kevinmcgloughlin_gram


MAX COOPER:
I wanted to make something huge and intense for the new live show, so I went for a project attempting to visualise the infinite and its links to us in our everyday lives. For every chapter of the story I found a different technique to approach it, in this case, the simple idea of repetition. Apply it, and we have a form of infinity. This was also a natural fit for my music, where I had a nice excuse to push the repetitive boat out even more than usual. I kept it very stripped back to focus on the idea, with slow evolution and occasional variants to maintain some melodic engagement.

Visually, I was lucky to get to work with one of my favourite artists, Kevin McGlouglin, where we told the human side of the story, our endless pursuit of growth and "progress", our duplication of built form and expanding cities, looking to an unbounded future of urban sprawl. It was an audio-visualisation encompassing the project title "Yearning for the Infinite". But despite our society-endangering issues around human consumption and sustainability, it wasn't supposed to be a doom scenario. We tried that musically and it didn't seem to fit. There was a back and forth on the ideas and their musical and visual representation, and what worked was something that for me seems more focused on the worth of our endless striving than its possible role in our downfall.

Stream/download: ffm.to/yearningfortheinfinite

Music & Concept:
Max Cooper
maxcooper.net/
instagram.com/maxcoopermax









Comments

  1. bobbyboyMarch 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM

    I love this piece Peter. Appreciate the reminder, ha

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  2. PTMarch 3, 2023 at 10:49 PM

    Thanks bobbyboy... I prefer your real name! But it's great to know some of my friends like what I'm posting even when I repeat myself.

    ReplyDelete

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