“(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. 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 via teleconference during the global COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. This approach to composing served as an unintended but serendipitous challenge for an album inspired by the complicated convenience of technology.
Watch the official video for the track “Swift Automatons” through the Youtube player below:
Stream “Void Manifest” and “Clockwork Fables” here: https://lnk.to/Eluvium
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01. Escapement
02. Swift Automatons
03. Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator)
04. Scatterbrains
05. Phantasia Telephonics
06. The Violet Light
07. Void Manifest
08. Clockwork Fables
09. Mass Lossless Interbeing
10. A Floating World of Demons
11. Endless Flower