Over a two-year journey, the audio-visual artist and electronic innovator Max Cooper has inverted the creative process by collecting hundreds of anonymous quotes.
The new single, in collaboration with British-Asian music producer, engineer and sound
designer Aneek Thapar was created from the quote submission, "I exist inside this machine for a short while. Constrained by its structure, somehow feeling that I am more, but unable to comprehend. Then I am gone”. Multi-talented Thapar has had a diverse career, including mixing a No.1 album, producing award-winning sample libraries, writing music for films and tv shows and guest lecturing at acclaimed institutions around the world.

The quote that inspired "I Exist Inside This Machine" could equally refer to the biological machines we are born within, or the mechanical systems we have created that we must exist within, We are all machines ourselves, yet all must live as cogs in our capitalist machine. Paradoxically, understanding how we are machines, and live within machines, lies at the root to true self-determination.

℗ 2024 Mesh © 2024 Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd.
Written, mixed and produced by Max Cooper
Mastered by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering.
Artwork by Minjeong An