{"id":235213,"date":"2021-04-25T20:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-g-cook-pens-tribute-to-sophie\/"},"modified":"2021-04-25T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:33:05","slug":"a-g-cook-pens-tribute-to-sophie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-g-cook-pens-tribute-to-sophie\/","title":{"rendered":"#A. G. Cook Pens Tribute to SOPHIE"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A. G. Cook Pens Tribute to SOPHIE<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

A. G. Cook has penned a tribute to his late friend and collaborator SOPHIE, the influential producer who died earlier this year at age 34. \u201cI\u2019m still processing Sophie\u2019s life… her nature, her work, her beauty,\u201d Cook wrote. \u201cShe was laser-focused and exceptionally intelligent, but also sensitive and perceptive. It didn\u2019t matter whether we were talking about people or relationships or materials or music\u2014she app<\/a>roached every topic with the love, care and intensity of someone who has truly lived.\u201d You can read Cook\u2019s full tribute here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cook\u2019s post chronicles his friendship and creative relationship with SOPHIE, which dates back to 2012. He discusses hearing her music for the very first time, the friendships they maintained with other musicians\u2014including Charli XCX (who wrote her own tribute to the late artist) and other members of PC Music, and their adventures across London, Los Angeles, and the globe. Above all, Cook discusses SOPHIE\u2019s talent as an artist and magnetism as a person. \u201cSophie had her way with people,\u201d he writes. \u201cShe could be critical, demanding, laid-back and mischievous all at the same time, an approach that turned everyone into a potential collaborator.\u201d He continues:<\/p>\n

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I know she made an enormous impression on the variety of people who (one way or another) became part of PC Music, and she would often raise people up, imploring them to pursue their individuality. Around that time, I also got to know the rest of her family: her sisters, her brother, her mother, her grandmother, all of whom matched Sophie\u2019s warmth, sweetness and intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sophie was and always will be a wedding DJ. There were cute photos of her DJing weddings as a pre-teen, and one of the most joyous DJ sets we did together was for her sister\u2019s wedding. It\u2019s funny to think of us striking a balance between our own tracks and the ethereal \u2018mainstream\u2019 selections that are considered acceptable at weddings, but Sophie loved to win over crowds, to make people dance, and she had a vast knowledge of music from different eras which she could deftly weave into her own world. Amongst her USBs were some backup folders simply labelled 70s, 80s, 90s that I remember falling back on for various nights and afterparties when things needed to get a little matrimonious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Cook also recalled the last time he saw SOPHIE in person, which occurred before the pandemic. \u201cA typically LA late night car ride to go get frozen yoghurt at the The Bigg Chill,\u201d Cook wrote. Adding:<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed being her friend on the inside\/outside, and we would sometimes call each other to test out our most extreme ideas. She was very curious and encouraging when I eventually started to plan my rollout of 7G and Apple, and it triggered a long phone call sometime at the beginning of last year, in which she talked at length about her shifting plans for her own music. She was completely disenchanted with the conservative notion of \u2018the album\u2019, and was even more disillusioned with the limited potential of streaming. With a mix of self- aware hubris and total dedication, she sketched out this idea of an extremely generous platform that would give listeners all kind of access to stems, fragments, and revisions of her music. She believed that technology<\/a> was wasting everyone\u2019s time by attempting to emulate vinyl and radio, and that this infinitely generous approach was a logical endpoint for what music was always trying to be. She asked for my opinion. \u201cDo you think it\u2019s possible?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still processing Sophie\u2019s death,\u201d Cook wrote toward the end of his tribute. \u201cThis was the first paragraph that I started to write in what became a long eulogy\u2014but I think I\u2019m closer now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read \u201cRemembering SOPHIE\u2019s Radical Futurism\u201d on the Pitch.<\/p>\n

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