Hailing from the archipelago of Orkney, composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper explores the natural world of landscape, memory, people and place. Cooper believes music often reflects the landscape a musician is surrounded with, be it rural, urban, real or imagined.

His second solo album, Sule Skerry, was released in May this year as the second in a triptych shaped by Orkney’s air, sea and land, as it was celebrated by Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown.

Originally part of acclaimed bands The Magnetic North and Erland & The Carnival, Cooper has a diverse musical history, and his debut solo album Solan Goose was an Album of the Year at BBC Radio 6 Music, the Quietus, and more.

Cooper's score for NEST, a giant kinetic sound and light installation, is a collaboration with the groundbreaking Marshmallow Laser Feast, made to open London's first Borough of Culture celebrations.

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