(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality

(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality is the new album by Eluvium - the renowned moniker of prolific modern composer, Matthew Robert Cooper. Taking initial inspirations from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Richard Brautigan's All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, (Whirring Marvels) inherently deals both with humankind's need for meaning, and the emergence of algorithms reflecting the feedback loops of humankind's interactions with machines themselves. This complicated relationship that we have with technology, automations, and algorithms - and the influence they in turn have on shaping our image of the world - is the mechanized heart and soul of an album that almost instantly establishes itself as a peak in Eluvium's inimitable catalog.During the writing process for (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality, Cooper began experiencing shoulder and arm pain that rendered his left arm increasingly debilitated. This inspired new compositional methods that blended varying degrees of electronic automations with traditional songwriting. Lyrical themes were built using algorithms to cull content from a notebook filled with years of scribbled thoughts, poems, considerations, conspiracies, scientific notions, and notes on the spirit of existence. Employing musicians from all around the world - including members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Golden Retriever, and the entire Budapest Scoring Orchestra - much of the music was conducted and recorded remotely

Tracks

1~1~Escapement (1:37)
1~2~Swift Automatons (2:37)
1~3~Vibration Consensus Reality (For Spectral Multiband Resonator) (8:01)
1~4~Scatterbrains (3:34)
1~5~Phantasia Telephonics (5:55)
1~6~The Violet Light (2:30)
1~7~Void Manifest (4:11)
1~8~Clockwork Fables (2:16)
1~9~Mass Lossless Interbeing (3:43)
1~10~A Floating World Of Demons (3:04)
1~11~Endless Flower (3:46)

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Eluvium
Release Date: 12 May 2023
Genre: Alternative
Label: TEMPORARY RESIDENCE
Distributor: Rocket Group