Max Cooper’s top 10 brain melting music videos
The visual has always played a central role in Max Cooper‘s work.
The DJ, producer and visual artist marries different creative disciplines and his passion and background in science with intricate, melodic strains of techno and electronica.
This has formed the basis installations, immersive experiences and live audio visual performances, that have explored the realms of sensory immersion, including experimenting with 4D sound and 360 AV experiences.
This mirrors the philosophy behind his label and mix series, Mesh. The platform has worked with artists who merge the worlds of arts and science, including Rob Clouth, Alex Banks and Llyr, as well as many of Max’s own releases, including his latest long player, Unspoken Words.
Below he picks out some of his favourite audio visual collaborations, from hand-painted visuals to short film scores and mind warping code art, prepare to get your brains melted…
Speaking about the videos, Max explains: “I’ve been lucky to work with a lot of amazing visual artists, and I’ve pushed for some strange stories and outcomes. We usually start from reasonable places but often fall into holes of beautiful abstraction, here are some of my favourites in non-ranked order.”
Max Cooper plays Junction 2 on 18th/19th June.
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I was looking for aesthetics of the infinite here, and how to present our drive towards consumption of everything. Kevin created these mind blowing repetitive structures from our built environment and I ditched the original soundtrack and reworked it to his visual design. Sometimes the visual has to come first.
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