How has music transported you? Where do you find inspiration from the natural world? Where do you find moments of every day magic?
Erland Cooper is a Scottish composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Stromness, Orkney. He has released three acclaimed studio albums, four additional companion albums, and multiple EPs, including a trilogy of work inspired by his childhood home. His work combines field recordings with traditional orchestration and contemporary electronic elements. Through music words and cinematography, he explores landscape, memory, and identity. Cooper also works across mixed media projects, including installation, art, theater, 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 fans and his record label alike to search for it. The tape has recently been found.

"It was the Summer Solstice yesterday. And there was this orange burning sun just dipping down below the skyline of the city, and it reflected across three buildings through the glass. This daylight, this last glimmer - or the grimlin, as we call it in Orkney, or the simmer dim - kind of echoing across the glass, reflecting across the glass. And for a moment, we're talking a millisecond, I was on the Highlands. I was back home. And it's those moments, you know, they're everywhere. I love to find that little bit of magic in the everyday."

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