I FIRST met musician, composer and artist Erland Cooper exterior London’s Barbican Centre in late spring. He had been standing for 12 hours subsequent to his 2.4-metre-high ice sculpture, Glacier. This thawing, crystalline monolith mirrored the local weather change themes and fragile fantastic thing about his fourth-and-latest album, Folded Landscapes.
“It was a kind of slow protest… a gentle way to bring conversations together,” explains Cooper after we subsequent meet, some months later. “I love that people just came up and sat beside me, picked at it, talked about it.”…