Erland Cooper: Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence

His work combines field recordings with traditional orchestration and contemporary electronic elements. Through music, words and cinematography, he explores landscape, memory and identity. He develops these themes further by partnering with other artists, writers and poets. Cooper also works across mixed media projects, including installation art, theatre and film. He is widely known for burying the only existing copy of the master tape of his first classical album in Scotland, deleting all digital files and leaving only a treasure hunt of clues for anyone to seek it. The tape was found in 2023, and the album will be released, exactly as it sounds from the earth, this year along with its world premiere of the completed score.

Erland Cooper will be joined by the London-based pianist and composer Reuben Goldmark as his support act. Reuben was a finalist in the esteemed BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition and his compositions were featured on BBC 4 and BBC Radio 3. Awarded the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in both 2022 and 2023, he is the first ever back-to-back recipient of the award. As a performer, he has graced numerous prestigious venues across the UK, including select appearances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival and Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.