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Sliding Around The World / Phantom Islands |
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| Location: | rome, Roma |
| Country: |  Italy |
| Last Login: | Jun 6, 2008 (541 days back) |
About Me |
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| Phantom Island from an interview by Tam Patton for Xochi Magazine - 2007 Australia.“There are islands that have been believed to exist, islands which have appeared on maps and have even had expeditions mounted to locate or conquer them, yet they have still evaded our observation. Some are eventually established as imaginary; daemonic. Others are seen only on old maps and charts, disappearing in more modern depictions, dismissed as mistakes. Others still are unsuccessfully sought for decades, and dismissed as fanciful or mythic, and then embarrassingly found in plain view, under another, more familiar name. Mike Cooper is perhaps one of these islands. Born in England in 1942, his 40-plus years of constant re-invention, experimentation and quiet genius in a myriad of musical styles has evaded categorization, perhaps as a side-effect of having been almost completely ignored by history. Encompassing Blues, Folk, Roots music, Electronica, Jazz, Exotica / Lounge, Dance, Noise, Modern Composition or Improvisation (amongst others), Cooper’s expansive remit blasts orthodox categorization into the befuddled librarian’s realm where it belongs.”For more go to http://homepage.mac.com/cooparia and also http://www.myspace.com/hipshotrecords | |
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Music:Member Since: 6/5/2007Band Website: homepage.mac.com/cooparia Band Members:MIKE COOPER LAP STEEL GUITAR - ELECTRONICS - VOICEFor the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date."Cooper was forging connections between folk and experimental musics long before America got New or Wierd.." (The Wire)"EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN" - is a live film and music collaboration between Australian film maker LOUISE CURHAM and MIKE COOPER -LOUISE CURHAM is an innovator of Super 8 film making whose work investigates the event of cinema. She paints, manipulates and degrades film in such a way as to enable her to interact live with musicians. One of the most innovative and exciting contemporary Australasian film artists. "CURHAM'S work is virtually unique among contemporary abstract filmmaking due to its foregrounding of the fragility of the medium: the delicate poetry of her celluloid effacements has a discretion that is rare among artists exploring this variety of terminal cinema." Jim Knox, The 2nd OtherFilm Festival, Senses of Cinema, No. 6 2006LOUISE CURHAM is at the forefront of Australian moving image art. As well known for curating innovative expanded cinema events in non-traditional exhibition spaces as for provocative Actionist performances, Curham is highly regarded in the experimental film world for her work using "obsolete media." Her hand-worked Super 8 films reinvent the home movie medium of years gone by. - http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue66/7776http://photo nicsmedia.net/periodical/cat/moving/http://www.tvk-bb.tv/art -channel/artistfile/2007/07/louise_curham.htmlhttp://www.tea chingandlearningcinema.org/louise/My duet with another Australian friend - keyboard player CHRIS ABRAHAMS - usually more associated with playing the piano with THE NECKS - here he plays DX7 while I play my acoustic National Resophonic guitar processed through my bits and pieces - this was played and recorded live and is on ROOM40 RECORDS. Influences: Blind Boy Fuller, David Toop, Kurt Schwitters, Gabby Pahinui, Raul Ruiz, Joseph Conrad, Son House, Steve Feld, Arthur Lyman, Ellery Chun, David Carsons, Lol Coxhill, Carl Stalling, Bruce Brown, Roger Turner, Wong Kar Wai, Len Lye, Tim Buckley, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Johnson, Keola Beamer, Steve Beresford, Sam Shepard, Greg Dening, John Wolseley, Martin Denny, John Zorn, James Hamilton Patterson, Fred Neil, Peter Bakowski, Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock, Eugene Chadbourne, Christopher Doyle, Louise Curham, Max Eastley, Keith Rowe, John Pilger, Nick Bantock, Tom Phillips, Tau Moe, Richard Nunns, Tapies, Captain Cook, Skip James, John Hassell, John Fahey, Van Dyke Parks, Freddie Roulette, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Esquivel, Henry Kaiser, Derek Jarman, Ry Cooder, Junior Brown, Dziga Vertov, Robert Flaherty, Robert Louise Stevenson, F.W.Murnau, J.G.Ballard, James Michener, Cecil Taylor, The Beachboys, Takemizu, Alvin Curran, Blind Willy Johnson, Harpo Marx, Lee Perry, The Pacific Ocean, South East Asia, Tiki Art, Eisenstein, Einstein, Chris Marker, the beach. Sounds Like: All of the above. Record Label: HIPSHOT - http://www.myspace.com/hipshotrecords Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Experimental/Live Electronics/Blues) |
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My Blog |
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KIRIBATI DISAPPEARING!!! |
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| This is from the ABC Australian News - -Adapted from a story originally aired on AM on Thursday, June 5/ 2008Endangered Pacific island nation facing mass relocation - Sinking Kiribati makes plea for ... Posted by mike cooper on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:13:00 PST |
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2008 Australian Tour Dates |
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| March13th march - Eaglehawk Nr. Bendigo-Victoria - Star Cinema - silent film/live music - "Aelita-Queen Of Mars"15th Dandenong-Victoria - Dandenong folk Club - solo acoustic 'roots night".16th Melb... Posted by mike cooper on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:29:00 PST |
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Venice 2007 Art Biennale |
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| This is an interesting site for the 2007 Venice Art Biennale - i have some sound tracks somewhere in there - but just browse around these short films of the art projects - http://www.treccanilab.com/b... Posted by mike cooper on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:33:00 PST |
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mike cooper biog |
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| MIKE COOPER LAP STEEL GUITAR - ELECTRONICS - VOICEFor the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and... Posted by mike cooper on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:16:00 PST |
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Hipshot Records, Terry Clarke, manuel mota, Luca Venitucci, Daiji Igarashi, Anonymeye, DENNIS KAMAKAHI, Jolie Holland, Tim Hill, Jim Conway, Shoeb Ahmad, No Neck Blues Band, Clayton Thomas, Paolo Angeli, Leila Adu, federica santoro, david toop, Petty Booka, Nabarlek, The Henrys, Joe Williamson, Borbetomagus, Don Tiki, S U R F A D E L I C A, WAITIKI, Keola Beamer, Gabby Pahinui, Sir Paul de Boe, Susan Alcorn, eRikm, G.T. Moore, Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Orchestra, ROOM40, Electric Masada, Sunshiners, Propaganda Klann, Kava Kon, Peter Brotzmann, MV & EE with the Golden Road, Dal Suono Sommerso, PASCAL-MESNIER, Taste of Teeth, Riz(h)ome Records, Andrea Koch, Filippo Giuffrè, www.logzero.it ! 14/06/08 [Stoppengò 0.9], Stefan Östersjö, setteteste, ØKAPI, Darren Paul, LØVBORG, Thomas Bloch-Bonhoff, José Félix de la Torre, Little Annie, Mike Garner, Djuwel, Mario D’Andreta, C.F.Zwingenberg, Nico Mangifesta, EMBASSY OF ANAPHORIA, Kavisha Mazzella, RINASCITASUONA, CounterPoint, Davy Graham, LE LIT, in bed with Schubert, Mark T., Los Chidos, Sweet Hollywaiians, Ettore, TEST QUINTET, Jona's Blues Band, Pippo Guarnera - Sketches, RECOVER BAND!, Agustí Martínez, Deguchi
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