Eluvium (musician)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Eluvium
Birth_name = Matthew Cooper
Born = Tennessee
Origin = Portland, Oregon,
Seattle, Washington
Genre = Ambient
Background = solo_singer
Label = Temporary Residence Limited| Years_active = 2003–present
URL = [http://www.eluvium.net/ 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 [http://www.obsoleteworld.com/ Jeannie Paske] .

Eluvium is currently signed to record label Temporary Residence Limited.

Matthew Robert Cooper and Miniatures

In April 2008 it was announced that Cooper would release a "solo album" under the name Matthew Robert Cooper. Writing on the Temporary Residence message boards Cooper explained the change "this is not far from something "eluvium" would release--but since i began writing them--i felt that they where somehow disconnected from eluvium-- perhaps a different personality took shape -- thus, the use of a different name - this work is very dear to me." [cite web | url=http://temporaryresidence.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5347 | title=Temporary Residence Message Board | date=April 11, 2008 | publisher=Temporary Residence |accessdate=2008-07-01]

"Miniatures" is slated for a Summer 2008 limited vinyl release on the fledgling Portland label, [http://www.gaardenrecords.com Gaarden Records] . The album will be limited to 2,000 copies with the first 1,000 on colored vinyl. [cite web | url=http://liepaper.com/blog/category/eluvium/ | title= Eluvium’s Cooper To Release Miniatures | date=June 26, 2008 |publisher=liepaper.com | accessdate=2008-07-01]

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 [http://www.windowexchange.org/ 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 [http://www.concertsilence.net concertsilence.net] .

Discography

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)

as Matthew Robert Cooper

* "Miniatures, (2008, [http://www.gaardenrecords.com Gaarden Records] )

ingles, 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)
* "Destroy Independent Music!" (2006-2007, Temporary Residence Limited) sampler

Compilation albums

* "Indecipherable Text" (2007, Sensory Projects, Australia) "Australian release combines 'Lambent Material' and 'Talk Amongst the Trees' and includes three additional tracks."

Appears on

*pacific UV - "E.P." - Remix of LAPD vs. NYPD (2006, WARM Records)
* Queer as Folk Season 5 Episode 9 end credits "Genius and the Thieves"
*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"
*Explosions in the Sky - "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" (2007, Temporary Residence Limited) "So Long, Lonesome (Eluvium Mix)" "(Matthew Cooper's mix of the album track appears on its bonus CD)"
* [http://www.concertsilence.net Concert Silence] - "09.22.07 [2-3pm] " (2007, with Charles Buckingham, self-released on website)

*Props Summer 2004 BMX Scene Report.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.eluvium.net Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/eluviumtaken Semi-official myspace page] - fan-operated but with blessings and featuring updates from Matthew Cooper
* [http://www.temporaryresidence.com/bands/eluvium.php Eluvium on Temporary Residence]
* [http://www.erasingclouds.com/wk1706eluvium.html Eluvium interview of Erasing Clouds]
* [http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/interview/eluvium.html An Interview with Eluvium's Matthew Cooper on Cokemachineglow]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Eluvium Eluvium live concert recordings on the Live Music Archive at archive.org]
* [http://www.windowexchange.org/ Window Exchange "ambient video project"]
* [http://www.concertsilence.net Concert Silence]
* [http://gaardenrecords.com/artists.html Eluvium on Gaarden Records]