• Max Cooper Announces 3D/AV Irish Shows

    December 16, 2022 - By 

    Max Cooper has announced two Irish dates for next year. The audio/visual techno shapeshifter will bring his live 3D/AV show to Belfast’s Mandela Hall on 17th February and Centre Point, Dublin on 18th February. Tickets are on sale now. In a statement, the London artist said: “This tour will bring the 3D / AV show, with the immersive gauze screen that I’ve been taking with me recently – if you’d like to have a look at the technique, see the film Live from the Acropolis on YouTube or some clips from the recent Brixton Academy show on my Instagram. I’m…

  • Red Bull and AVA Team Up For Special Max Cooper AV Show

    November 13, 2020 - By 

    Red Bull and AVA have teamed up to host a special performance by London-based Belfast producer Max Cooper. Streamed from Carlisle Memorial Church in Belfast, the homecoming performance will see Cooper bring a new AV show to the high Victorian, neo-gothic style building. Doubling up as the first electronic performance in the venue, the event will be available to AVA’s online community for free on Wednesday, November 18 at 8pm via YouTube, Facebook and the AVA website. Sarah McBriar, Creative Director of AVA said, ‘After stepping inside the building in 2015, we knew we wanted to bring a part of AVA to Carlisle…

  • A million vivid details: Max Cooper interviewed

    November 15, 2018 - By 

    Merging ambient textures and modern classical elements with the banging clamour of accessible dance beats, Belfast born Electronic composer Max Cooper has been studiously perfecting his brand of music for over 10 years now. Drawing on his deep rooted interests in science and technology, the artist has created a uniquely cerebral body of work, built upon cavernous soundscapes that alternatively surge and flutter with elemental energy. Conceived in relative isolation and primarily concerned with the infinitesimal intricacies of the unknowable human mind, Max Cooper’s latest offering, One Hundred Billion Sparks is, suitably, both epic in scale and minutely detailed;  a tour…

  • Max Cooper – One Hundred Billion Sparks

    October 1, 2018 - By 

      There are few artists who occupy the middle ground between music, science, art and technology quite like Max Cooper. The Belfast-born producer’s repertoire often portrays complex scientific theory through the medium of sonically beautiful shapeshifting electronica. Shaped by his studies in computational biology and genetics, One Hundred Billion Sparks is his first full length album since Emergence in 2016, and documents Cooper’s search for artistry amongst the mechanisms, emotions and constructs which yield identity and experience. Crudely put, individuals are distinguished from one another by their differing combinations of one hundred billion neurons, each of them capable of creating…