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The String Factory offers competitively priced recording services for projects requiring real strings. It is the brainchild of violinist and composer Ian Cooper, commissioned to compose and perform for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. The event was televised worldwide with an estimated 2.85 billion viewers.

A cost effective and streamlined approach to recording all the strings that make up an orchestra by one single musician. Ian Cooper is such a player, proficient on violin, viola, cello and double bass. Instinctively, phrasing, articulation and dynamics become the same as each new track is recorded allowing the entire string section to “breathe” collectively as one - something that cannot be achieved as effectively with multiple musicians.

Ian Cooper has appeared live and on recordings with artists as diverse as James Morrison, George Benson, Tommy Emmanuel, Barry White, Silverchair, John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John.