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Adrian Copeland uses the cello to its absolute extremes of calm and violence. The Montreal-based instrumentalist brings together elements of modern classical, noise, and doom, exploring the dichotomies of minimalism and maximalism, stillness and cacophony, terror and chaos.
Copeland composes on the cello, aided by the instrument’s remarkable range – not only the typical, smooth legato and pizzicato, but a host of extended techniques, as well: scordatura (detuning strings), col legno (striking the strings with the bow), ponticello (metallic, shrill overtones), and percussive sounds created from the cello itself.
The project has a broad, unorthodox variety of influences, which comes through in the final product. While the music is grounded in minimal classical and post-rock, it also reveals colours of black metal, industrial, classical impressionism, and ambient music.
Copeland released 3 albums under the name Alder & Ash, and one album under his own name Adrian Copeland. This marks a hiatus from Alder & Ash to focus on music scoring.
Credits
Scores:
Pains by Justin Brooks (Short film, 2022)
Piece of Mind by Naila Kuhlman (Dance/Mixed media art, 2022)
Broken by Jillian Reeves (Short film, 2020, post-prod)
Ashen Scoring Cello by Wavelet Audio (Sample library, 2020)
Into the Storm by Sandra Salas (Trailer, 2019)
Encounter by Eva Kolarova (Dance, 2018)
Blue Dependence by Eva Kolarova (Dance, 2017)
Déjà vu by Olivier Labonté Lemoyne (Short film, 2017)
Hron, a Country of Ghosts (Trailer, 2016)
Album Credits:
If This Were My Body (2022, Lost Tribe Sound)
The Crowneater (2019, Mendicant Records)
Clutched in the Maw of the World (2017, Lost Tribe Sound)
Psalms for the Sunder (2017, Lost Tribe Sound)
Musical Collaborations:
Isolation - The Phenometrician (2020)
Pound of Fle$h - Ba:zel (2019)
All Is Surprising to the Forgetful - William Ryan Fritch (2018)