Eluvium (musician)
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Eluvium | |
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Birth name | Matthew Cooper |
Born | Tennessee |
Origin | Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington |
Genre(s) | Ambient |
Years active | 2003–present |
Label(s) | Temporary Residence Limited |
Website | www.eluvium.net |
Eluvium is the moniker of ambient recording artist Matthew Cooper, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Cooper, who was born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, Kentucky before relocating to the Northwest, is known for blending various genres of experimental music including shoegaze, electronic, minimalist and piano. His albums often feature artwork and photographs by Jeannie Paske.
Eluvium is currently signed to record label Temporary Residence Limited.
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[edit] Other projects: Window Exchange, Concert Silence
Cooper has also teamed up with Charles Buckingham, with whom he has worked on the ambient video project titled Window Exchange, to produce the "unedited improvised basement minidisc recordings" of 'Concert Silence'. In the Fall of 2007, Concert Silence made 09.22.07 [2-3pm], a 51-minute, six part instrumental piece, available for free download at concertsilence.net.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Lambent Material (2003, Temporary Residence Limited)
- An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (2004, Temporary Residence Limited)
- Talk Amongst the Trees (2005, Temporary Residence Limited)
- Copia (2007, Temporary Residence Limited)
[edit] Singles, EPs and splits
- Travels in Constants Vol. 20 (2005, Temporary Residence Limited)
- When I Live by the Garden and the Sea (2006, Temporary Residence Limited)
- Jesu/Eluvium split (2007, Temporary Residence Limited)
[edit] Compilation albums
- Indecipherable Text (2007, Sensory Projects, Australia)
Australian release combines 'Lambent Material' and 'Talk Amongst the Trees' and includes three additional tracks.
[edit] Appears on
- Various Artists - Thankful (2005, Temporary Residence Limited)
"Carousel"
- Various Artists - Tempset - (Re)Mix Tape (2006, Temporary Residence Limited)
appears on four tracks of a mash-up remix CD made for Temporary Residence Limited's 10th Anniversary Festival, September 2006
"So Long, Lonesome (Eluvium Mix)" (Matthew Cooper's mix of the album track appears on its bonus CD)
- Concert Silence - 09.22.07 [2-3pm] (2007, with Charles Buckingham, self-released on website)
- Props Summer 2004 BMX Scene Report.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Semi-official myspace page - fan-operated but with blessings and featuring updates from Matthew Cooper
- Eluvium on Temporary Residence
- Eluvium interview of Erasing Clouds
- An Interview with Eluvium's Matthew Cooper on Cokemachineglow
- Eluvium live concert recordings on the Live Music Archive at archive.org
- Window Exchange "ambient video project"
- Concert Silence