Keir Cooper
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OTHER   MUSIC   WORK 

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HOUSECONCERT (2023)
OBJECT   COLLECTION

Role:
Guitar#1 in 10-piece ensemble

Written and directed by Kara Feely
composed by Travis Just. Performed by Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Kara Feely, Travis Just, Daniel Allen Nelson, Nicolás Noreña, James Oldham, and Timothy Scott.

With: Anna Palmer, Cameron Graham, Francesca Fargion, Keir Cooper, Neil Luck

HOUSECONCERT will tour to: Stanford University (USA); Indexical, Santa Cruz (USA) and will have a theatrical run at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NYC May 1-28.

Performed at Cafe Oto

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 DEAD  CAT  BOUNCE  (2023)
waste   paper  opera + Gary  Zhexi   Zhang

Role: Chorus

Resonance FM link here

Music by James Oldham Text by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Klara Kofen.

Violin - Chihiro Ono
Drums - Cameron Graham
Mezzo Soprano - Suzie Purkis
Baritone - Themba Mvula

Chorus: Jacob Bolton, Keir Cooper, Gabriella Demczuk, Livvy Lynch,
Themba Mvula and WPO.


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SHE   WHO   DARES  (2023)
Off  The   Wall Aerial   Dance   Circus

Role:
Music Composition & Sound Design

Bursting with energy and fuelled by an unending love affair with playing against gravity, Off The Wall explores the idea of what sparks us to dare. Following the narrative of some of women’s most daring personal achievements in history, it delves into the human capacity for challenge and the spirit of resilience, celebrating human courage.

Feast, Peninsula Dance Partnership, Cornwall Council, Arts Council England.
Photo: Dan Martin


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HEARTY (2018- 2023)
NONE  OF US   IS  YET A   ROBOT

Role:
Music Composition & live sound


A live art performance of queer trans autobiographical apocalypse science fiction.

Yard Theatre, London, Marlborough Theatre, Summerhall - Edinburgh, Reading South St, AMATA, Falmouth, ACCA Brighton, Roundhouse London, Cambridge Junction,Contact Festival - Manchester, Worthing Pavilion, theaterszene europa, studiobühneköln - Cologne, Theaterhaus - Mannheim.

TMWKFBIMGYL (2017-2019)
CHRIS  BRETT   BAILEY

Role:
(Guest) Fender Telecaster *Artist Series*
in durational noise performance


Christopher Brett Bailey's all-guitar group ranging from a quartet to sextet - performing in theatrical contexts with guitars in scordatura.

Oval House, Ladywell Morgue, Reading South St.

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DERAILED (2017-18)
LITTLE     SOLDIER

Role:
On stage guitarist & performer
(replacing original performer for tour)


Twelve years after arriving in the UK, with too many heartbreaks, Patricia and Mercè are feeling the post-Brexit blues. Fuelled by rage at the state of world, they want to turn anger into positive action. So what else is there to do apart from host the mother of all leaving parties. Feat. live rock music, the Dalai Lama, and an uncertain future.

BAC, HOME theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, National Theatre Riverside Stage, The Drum, Royal Theatre Plymouth, Aldershot, Ovalhouse.

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Read   Not   Dead
at  Shakespeare's   Globe

Role:
Live musical accompaniment.

Read Not Dead is a multi-decade project run by Shakespeare’s Globe, one in which they plan to perform every single ‘unknown’ play that has survived in print, from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558, to the closing of the theatres in 1642.

The Love of King David & Fair Bethsabe
by George Peele (1599) - Guitar and Drums.

Parasitaster, or the Fawn
by John Marston (1606)
Guitar.



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Acoustic/Electronics  Quartet
A  Sweet   Niche

Role:
Composition, Guitar, Percussion

A band arranged for double bass, guitars, latin percussion set and Max MSP laptop.

This outfit included a summer of writing and rehearsal with some live performances over 2 consecutive summers in Brighton and Cornwall and a recording session in Cardiff. Some material was subsequently rearranged for A Sweet Niche’s Jazz Punk Trio which toured alongside.

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Fleuve  
(ensemble 
dance   performance )
Roehampton    Studio   Theatre

Role:
Guitar, Drums

Live band: Harp, guitar, drumset, double bass and Max MSP laptop.

Performing music with elements of structured improvisation

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Rubble / Hyde
Royal   Festival  Hall + Kingston   Lecture   Theatre.

Role: Guitarist for chamber ensembles performing new musical work by Olly Sellwood.

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