Max Cooper
also plays Berlin — 1 night
Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.
He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.
Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events. Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all.
"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."
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Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are 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."
Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, Barbican Centre, W1 Curates, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the Pompidou Metz, V&A London, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Traum Schallplatten, Trapez, Autist, Playtime, veryverywrongindeed, Monique Musique, Broque, Flux Recordings, Process Recordings and 54 Music. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
- Tue 11 Nov 2025NR Planet Alone™MoMA · first time
- Fri 22 Aug 2025Max CooperElsewhere · first time
Who they play with
One night, and this is who was on it.
- Tue 11 Nov 2025Underworld · Arca · Nils Frahm · Hauschka · Abjective · Ametsub · Franck Vigroux · Jon Hopkins · Jamie xx · Objekt · Ben Frost
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