Splintered Air Between Us

A new video for a track from Feeling Is Structure, the album Max Cooper released on his own Mesh label in May. It is ten audio-visual works about how the structure of sound, buildings, biology and art shapes the way we feel, and it grew out of a commission for the Royal Albert Hall. Cooper describes the sound in a room as a physical thing hanging in the air between him and each listener, and here he wanted to make that air crack and shatter. Factory Fifteen built the video from footage of Cooper performing in and out of darkness. It runs through a particle system that fractures each image by its grey values, a technique inspired by portraits made from broken glass. The film is dedicated ‘For Jono’.

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