Yearning for the Infinite

by Max Cooper

Yearning for the Infinite cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 November 2019
  • Label: Mesh
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:17:14
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Commissioned by the Barbican Centre, this multi-media project explores the human obsession with the infinite through computational music and data visualization. The record features intricate rhythmic patterns and expansive, orchestral synthesizer layers that bridge the gap between dancefloor techno and academic sound design. It reflects the artist's background in computational biology, translating scientific concepts into sophisticated electronic soundscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, complex, instrumental, electronic, deconstructed, minimal, repetitive, ambient, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Let There Be (3:57)
  2. Repetition (5:50)
  3. Parting Ways (7:22)
  4. Perpetual Motion (4:58)
  5. Circular (4:33)
  6. Aleph 2 (6:34)
  7. Scalar (6:31)
  8. Nanotech (4:43)
  9. Penrose Tiling (5:02)
  10. Transcendental Tree Map (7:29)
  11. Morphosis (7:26)
  12. Void (7:26)
  13. A Fleeting Life (2:11)
  14. In Pursuit of Ghosts (3:06)

Credits

  • Max Cooper - primary artist
  • Adam Betts - percussion
  • Six Sigma - written-by [written in collaboration with]
  • Wilderthorn - featuring
  • Alison Moyet - featuring
  • James Yorkston - featuring
  • Tom Hodge - written-by [written in collaboration with]

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