TUPELO QUARTERLY: Jacob Cooper’s Terrain: A Roundtable on Music, Poetry, and Collaboration with Jacob Cooper, Greg Alan Brownderville, Dora Malech, and Zach Savich
TUPELO QUARTERLY: Jacob Cooper’s Terrain: A Roundtable on Music, Poetry, and Collaboration with Jacob Cooper, Greg Alan Brownderville, Dora Malech, and Zach Savich
BY KRISTINA MARIE DARLING
“This summer, New Amsterdam Records released Cooper’s second album, Terrain. Its “ambitious and beautiful” compositions highlight singers Theo Bleckman and Jodie Landau, as well as cellist Ashley Bathgate; I wrote one text for the album and so did two of Cooper’s other previous collaborators, poets Greg Alan Brownderville and Dora Malech. The four of us spoke in August about collaboration, performance, and art’s relationship to ritual in times of uncertainty. (Zach Savich)”