Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and formerscientist 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 electronicmusician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musiciansto produce in Dolby Atmos.
Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explorethe intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersiveexperiences, 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 purifiedforms of electronic music carried a lot of weight for me, as did the reductive natural aesthetics of thesciences. That felt connection to both opened up a world I've been lost in ever since.
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural careertransition, 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 ofcorporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind.
Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, BarbicanCentre, W1 Curates, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the PompidouMetz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London
