Max Cooper^UK

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Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, label founder and former scientist who has carved out a singular space between music and visual art. He holds a PhD in computational biology, was the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens, and was among the first wave of artists to produce in Dolby Atmos. For over 15 years, through his music, collaborations and label Mesh, Cooper has explored the intersection of art and science across installations, immersive experiences, music videos and live events. Anchoring it all is his emotive approach: connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a way that is accessible to everyone.

"I've always had a strong emotive bond with aesthetics, and found at an early age that the purified forms of electronic music carried a lot of weight for me, as did the reductive natural aesthetics of the sciences. That felt connection to both opened up a world I've been lost in ever since."

The pivot from computational biology to electronic music might seem unlikely, but for Cooper the connection is obvious: "In both fields you're, in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, the Barbican Centre, W1 Curates and The Babraham Institute, and has exhibited at museums including the Pompidou Metz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.

Max Cooper — Lattice 3D/AV
Live A/V | North-American Premiere

Max Cooper’s Lattice 3D/AV is a living sculpture of light and sound. Projections, lasers, and translucent layers pulse to his latest album On Being, reimagined live with each performance. Co-created with Architecture Social Club, this genre-spanning A/V experience bends space into pure emotion.