BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:536@https://flypost.ie SUMMARY:Mike Cooper DTSTAMP:20260514T201747Z DTSTART:20260514T190000Z DTEND:20260514T214500Z DESCRIPTION:Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents\n\nMike Cooper\n\nThe Cobblestone\ n\nThursday 14th May\n\nDoors 8pm\n\nTickets via https://billetto.ie/e/mik e-cooper-tickets-1769550\n[https://billetto.ie/e/mike-cooper-tickets-17695 50]\n\n\n\n“The icon of post-everything music” – Lawrence English (::Room4 0::)\n\nFor the past 60 years Mike Cooper has been an international artist ic explorer\nconstantly pushing the boundaries.\n\nHe plays lap steel guit ar and sings\, he is an improviser and composer\,\nsong-maker\, a visual a nd installation artist\; film and video maker and radio\narts producer.\n\ nInitially a folk-blues guitarist he is as responsible as anyone else — an d more\nso than many — for ushering in the acoustic blues boom in the U.K. in the mid\n’60s.\n\nHe has\, arguably\, stretched the possibilities of t hat genre even more than his\nbetter known contemporaries Davy Graham\, Be rt Jansch\, John Renbourne etc. by\npursuing it into the more avant-garde musical areas occupied by guitar\ninnovators such as Elliott Sharp\, Keith Rowe\, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot\, with an\neclectic mix of the many styl es he has practiced over the years. Ranging freely\nthrough free improvisa tion\, his own idiosyncratic original songs\,\nelectro-acoustic music\, ex otica\, traditional country blues\, folk\, pop songs\, and\n‘sonic gestura l’ playing utilising open tunings\, extended guitar techniques and\nelectr onics.\n\n"Mike Cooper’s output of the past half century has been describe d as\n‘post-everything’. It’s a fitting phrase really when you consider he has been at\nthe beating heart of so many critical musical moments. From the development of\nthe blues touring circuit in the UK\, through the grow th of the folk scene and\ninto the explosion of free improvisation that ca me to define a generation of UK\nmusicians. Amidst it all\, working at sti tching these disparate forms into some\nkind of deterritorialised zone\, w as Mike Cooper." - Lawrence English Room 40\nRecords.\n\n“Cooper is making the most adventurous music of his life… incredibly rich and\nevocative\, and as a live performance\, it’s utterly flawless. Cooper takes live\nguit ar processing and sampling as his raw material\, using it to build somethi ng\ncomplex and substantive\, full of ideas and surprises\, not just aband oning it\nhalf-formed.” – (Jonathan Dean – Brainwashed)\n\nHe plays lap st eel guitar and sings\, he is an improviser and composer\,\nsong-maker\, a visual and installation artist\; film and video maker and radio\narts prod ucer. URL:https://flypost.ie/event/mike-cooper LOCATION:The Cobblestone\, North King St - North King St\, Dublin 7 STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Improvised music,Experimental,Dublin,Jazz,Folk,live music,mike c ooper X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents

Mike Coo per

The Cobblestone

Thursday 14th May

Doors 8pm

Ti ckets via https://billetto.ie/e/mike-cooper-tickets-1769550

“The icon of post-everything music” – Lawrence English (::Ro om40::)

For the past 60 years Mike Cooper has been an international artistic explorer constantly pushing the boundaries.

He plays lap s teel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, song-maker, a vis ual and installation artist; film and video maker and radio arts producer.

Initially a folk-blues guitarist he is as responsible as anyone el se — and more so than many — for ushering in the acoustic blues boom in th e U.K. in the mid ’60s.

He has, arguably, stretched the possibiliti es of that genre even more than his better known contemporaries Davy Graha m, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne etc. by pursuing it into the more avant-gar de musical areas occupied by guitar innovators such as Elliott Sharp, Keit h Rowe, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot, with an eclectic mix of the many styles he has practiced over the years. Ranging freely through free improvisatio n, his own idiosyncratic original songs, electro-acoustic music, exotica, traditional country blues, folk, pop songs, and ‘sonic gestural’ playing u tilising open tunings, extended guitar techniques and electronics.

" Mike Cooper’s output of the past half century has been described as ‘post- everything’. It’s a fitting phrase really when you consider he has been at the beating heart of so many critical musical moments. From the developme nt of the blues touring circuit in the UK, through the growth of the folk scene and into the explosion of free improvisation that came to define a g eneration of UK musicians. Amidst it all, working at stitching these dispa rate forms into some kind of deterritorialised zone, was Mike Cooper." - L awrence English Room 40 Records.

“Cooper is making the most adve nturous music of his life… incredibly rich and evocative, and as a live pe rformance, it’s utterly flawless. Cooper takes live guitar processing and sampling as his raw material, using it to build something complex and subs tantive, full of ideas and surprises, not just abandoning it half-formed.” – (Jonathan Dean – Brainwashed)

He plays lap steel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, song-maker, a visual and install ation artist; film and video maker and radio arts producer.

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