Max Cooper

Max Cooper has carved out his own artistic space between the worlds of emotional dancefloor experimentation, fine-art sound design, and tireless and varied attempts to examine the scientific world through visuals. Cooper's critically acclaimed festival and club performances, and his album Human, draw heavily on juxtaposition: ambient and overwhelming, beautiful and furious, excessive and restrained. His video work engages with scientific concepts including complexity, natural form, heredity, dimensionality, gravitation, emergence, number theory and morphogenesis, and his over seventy released tracks are now joined by twenty-seven commissioned video works.

Born in 1980 and raised in Belfast, Cooper’s university years saw his first forays into DJing and genetics, leading to a PhD in computational biology while releasing his first work in 2007. Since then, he has left behind his academic career and expanded his musical palette to include psychoacoustics, 3D sound design, field recordings, a focus on melody rare in electronic music circles, and work with artists including noted contemporary classical composers Michael Nyman and Nils Frahm, pop acts Hot Chip, Au Revoir Simone, BRAIDS, MMOTHS, pianist Tom Hodge and vocalist Kathrin de Boer.

Links:
www.maxcooper.net