Max Cooper

The way I write music has always been very heavily focused on a full body experience (bass massages, space pads and panned clicks etc). So the extension of adding spatial audio was a natural one. It opened a lot of doors for storytelling.

I’m really looking forward to bringing my new 360 live / DJ hybrid show at Polygon Live this weekend, I’ve got some space mangling things to try out and plenty of old favs. I hope you can join us.

Tickets via the link here: polygon-productions.live/listing/polygon-live-ldn/

Music: Resynthesis 3D by Max Cooper
Release Title: 3D Reworks 001

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Max Cooper

Many thanks to all of you who submitted your inner thoughts and feelings to create “on being”….some of the many thousands of beautiful things shown here.

You can explore the whole collection of quotes and contributors via onbeing.maxcooper.net/ (link in bio)…..the text animation system is by Ksawery Komputery and the artwork by Minjeong An. The website by Thisismyengine music = “on being” with Félix Gerbelot.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 3

Max Cooper

When I Sit Alone. In My Thoughts. I Am Crushed.

Watch my new video by the great Axonbody here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6lY...

The quote arrived on my album website after I asked “What do you want to express, which you feel you can’t in everyday life?”. Using thousands of anonymous quotes, my On Being album attempts to capture the experience of being human, now.

This was one of the first quotes from the database that reached out and grabbed my guts and squashed them. I had to tackle it, and I immediately contacted Aho Ssan with the idea, because his approach to music contained some of the intensity and noise elements that I felt were needed to deliver the quote.

It was submitted anonymously, so over the past few years I had a story in my mind about who submitted it and why. But then ahead of the Bristol show I heard from Robbie Evans, the writer of the words, who I met at the show. If any of you submitted any of the words in the project I’d love to hear from you so I can put a face to the name of the words I’ve spent my last 3 years with.

The writing process began with a live improvisation on Void and Vista Folds, which formed the structure of the 7 minute sequence. I then jammed with my hardware synths and pedals to introduce the aggression, and sent everything to Aho Ssan, who mangled and layered on his special blend.

The final touches came from a visit to Taichung, where recordings of the night market feature in the track, and finally, over compression to pump a sub bass into obliterating everything else to reach for some new chaos, for any you who have the full frequency response available. It was pure catharsis, and maybe not something many people will enjoy listening to, but that’s where the quote sent me, and hopefully it will be worthwhile for some of you.

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

Max Cooper

Forthcoming new show Lattice and 3D/AV dates for my On Being Live tour - UK and Europe now on general sale - More dates TBA

Thank you if you’ve joined me for a show this year. I’m looking forward to all the new AV experiments over the next few months. I hope you can join us.

With support from the great Jinjé, Odalie, Llyr, Evan Gildersleeve, Pleizel, Afrodeutsche, Alex Banks and Chloé

If you’d like to stop by and say hello I always try to chat at the end of the show by the stage once things have cleared a little.

Visit maxcooper.net/event and join my mailer for first news on tickets

Artwork by Minjeong An
Graphic design for tour poster by Jack Dominy

1 month ago | [YT] | 42

Max Cooper

On Being - my new album is out today.

What do you want to express that you feel you can’t in everyday life? Asking a question to all of you who were listening to my last album, set a path to this new one. Many thanks to all of you for putting forward so many feelings to work with.

It began when I started reading the database of thoughts. It was like finding a secret window into our collective psyche, and discovering amongst the chaos, pleasure and pain, so many experiences that we share at different times of our lives, and an overwhelming sense of emotions and connections that I had to explore.

Usually I render my own thoughts and feelings and find out later whether they resonate with others or not. Now I could start from the resonant thoughts at source, and make my own interpretations of those musically and visually. It was intense. The quotes carry so much weight. Individually they are extreme, but as a whole collection I found it quite overwhelming. I tried to channel that through into the music, so we have something more intense than my usual, particularly for the moments when I tackled the most brutal of the quotes. The album website is now live with my thoughts and themes from the record.

The album is available in Dolby Atmos created with the great Richard Burki at Future Phonic Studios for the full spatial audio experience.

Listen here: ffm.to/on_being_

If you wrote any of the quotes appearing in this project I’d love to hear from you so I can put a face to the words I’ve spent my last few years with. As the majority of quotes were submitted anonymously (shout outs to May Kaspar, Robbie Evans and New Age Punk who feature on the record via your quote submissions). Thank you to you all.

Big thank you to all my musical collaborators - Felix Gerbelot, Aneek Thapar, Tawiah, May Gaspar, Aho Ssan, Niels Orens and Tom VR.

Huge thanks to all the visual collaborators:
Ksawery Komputery, Daniel Wenzel, Andy Lomas, Hiroki Akamoto, Kevin McGloughlin, Páraic McGloughlin, Henning M. Lederer, Michael McAffee, Simon Kounovsky, Masanobu Hiraoka, Jean-Baptiste Friquet, Xavier Chassaing and Frederik Vanhoutte.

2 months ago | [YT] | 3

Max Cooper

I’m bringing my new Lattice 3D/AV live show to Brighton Dome for Brighton Festival on 10 May as part of my forthcoming new album tour.

Lattice is my latest immersive audio-visual performance system with Architecture Social Club.

Combining projections, semi transparent layers, lights and lasers to wrap you in sculptures of light which tell the story of my latest album project ‘On Being’ album, along with new visual collaborations and the full back catalogue.

If you’d like join us, tickets are available now. Hopefully see you there.

Tickets here: brightonfestival.org/whats-on/X9i-max-cooper/

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Max Cooper

I’ll be at Rough Trade East on Brick Lane London - Thurs 20 Feb from 7pm.

We’ll be hosting a live Q&A where I’ll be chatting about making the new album and playing parts of it.

We’ll also have copies of the new record there if of interest ahead of release date.

I hope you can join us - as spaces are very limited. RSVP via the link in bio.

2 months ago | [YT] | 42

Max Cooper

Tickets for Hamburg and Frankfurt are available via my website: maxcooper.net/event

2 months ago | [YT] | 16

Max Cooper

I’ll be performing a special immersive audio / spatial set for Polygon Live on their 360 dome system on London on Sat May 3rd. It’s the UK's first fully specialised, 360° immersive festival taking place between 2nd-4th May ’25 at Crystal Palace, London.

I’ll be performing alongside Jon Hopkins, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Weval, Halina Rice, Cosmo Sheldrake and more.

Tickets via my link in bio and maxcooper.net/event

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3 months ago | [YT] | 76

Max Cooper

I’m touring my new album 3D/AV show to the places below, I hope I’m making it to somewhere nearby you.

We’ll also be announcing some more Lattice 3D/AV shows soon, which is an evolution of the current live system with lasers joining the multi layer projections to push the extrusions and immersion and storytelling possibilities further with the team at Architecture Social Club and clip here from the project with Donny Pomponny

Tickets via maxcooper.net/event

6 Feb - Berlin, Kesselhaus (nearly sold out) 🇩🇪
8 Feb - Hamburg, Ubel & Gefahrlich 🇩🇪
9 Feb - Copenhagen, Pumpehuset 🇩🇰
14 Feb - Munich, Ampere (sold out) 🇩🇪
14 Feb - Miami, Ignite Festival - On Being Install 🇺🇸
28 Feb - Gateshead, The Glasshouse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
1 March - Bristol, Bristol Beacon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
5 March - Prague, Meetfactory (nearly sold out) 🇨🇿
6 March - Brussels, AB 🇧🇪
7 March - Lille, L’aeronef 🇫🇷
8 March - Frankfurt, Das Bett 🇩🇪
14 March - London, Roundhouse - Lattice 3D/AV (sold out) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
14 March - London, KOKO after-party (DJ Set) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
15 March - Luxembourg, Philharmonie Luxembourg 🇱🇺
16 March - Paris, Le Trianon 🇫🇷
22 March - Stockholm, Slaktkyrkan 🇸🇪
3 April - Marseille, Espace Julien 🇫🇷
4 April - Lyon, L’Épicerie Moderne 🇫🇷
6 April - Norwich, Epic Studios 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
13 April - Lisbon, Sónar festival - Lattice 3D/AV 🇵🇹
21 May - Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Concert Hall 🇬🇷
13 June - Barcelona, Sónar festival - Lattice 3D/AV 🇪🇸

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