{"id":2763,"date":"2016-06-06T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2016-07-23T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:40:00","slug":"welcome-mike-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/welcome-mike-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Mike Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>This month at ResidenceSEA we host the British musician and composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooparia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Cooper<\/a>. He will be working \u00a0for four weeks at the residenceSEA\u00a0, continuing his research called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooparia.com\/island-an-audio-visual-installation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Island Gardens<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0to create music for imaginary, hyperreal beach scenes. He\u00a0will<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0also make a new audio piece for<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0release on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/room40\" target=\"_blank\">Room40<\/a> records later this year titled &#8216;Raft&#8217;, which will be dedicated to William Willis and Vital Alsar who both sailed balsa wood rafts across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Australia.<a href=\"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/welcome-mike-cooper\/mc-oto\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2777 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MC-OTO.jpg\" alt=\"MC-OTO\" width=\"700\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MC-OTO.jpg 700w, https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MC-OTO-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Mike Cooper\u00a0plays lap steel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, he works with\u00a0video\/sound installations and he is a radio arts producer. He his \u00a0open to meet remarkable people for collaborations. He will be walking, listening and recording for a month in Crete,\u00a0searching for a model to create an experience of imaginary landscape of sound and story telling by discovering the Genius Loci: the &#8216;spirit of the place&#8217; of Crete island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018<b>Island Gardens\u2019 <\/b><\/em>is an on-going multi screen short video installation project connecting small island cultures around the world by exploring their sound, story, myth, magical thinking and visual beauty. Island Gardens project was filmed in Bali, East Timor, Guadaloupe, Singapore, Hong Kong, Greece, and other exotic locations.\u00a0The work Island Gardens was premiered at GRIM Marseille in 2014 with 17 of the videos projected on five separate flat screens with headphones.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105551695\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About the artist<\/p>\n<p>Mike Cooper is a colourful, iconoclastic performer and composer whose career began in the late 1960s. For the past 50 years he has been an international artistic explorer constantly pushing the boundaries.\u00a0After establishing a profile as a folk\/blues\/jazz musician and, later, exploring the Hawaiian-styled guitarist, he have also collaborate with the avant-garde contexts of the London Musicians Collective. He has performed with other notable experimentalists such as Mike Gibbs, David Toop, Lol Coxhill and Mike Abrahams, and released a series of recordings on independent labels and self-released CDs. He\u00a0has developed a repertoire of music for several silent films re-contextualising the traditional music and image. He \u00a0traveled around the Pacific and collaborate with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists around the world. \u00a0He is now\u00a0based in Rome, and work with\u00a0 sound-fields recordings, performances, tours and writing music about the sound and culture of islands.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">Visit his website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooparia.com\/\">www.cooparia.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month at ResidenceSEA we host the British musician and composer Mike Cooper. He will be working \u00a0for four weeks at the residenceSEA\u00a0, continuing his research called\u00a0Island Gardens\u00a0\u00a0to create music for imaginary, hyperreal beach scenes. He\u00a0will\u00a0also make a new audio piece for\u00a0release on Room40 records later this year titled &#8216;Raft&#8217;, which will be dedicated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/welcome-mike-cooper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome Mike Cooper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/MaaKali.orG\/ResidenceSEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}