Max Cooper (electronica musician)

Max Cooper
October, 2011
Background information
Born	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Origin	London
Genres	Techno Ambient music
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Fields
Website	Official website

Max Cooper (born 1980) is a London-basedelectronica and techno producer who has been releasing music since 2007. He has received positive criticism from magazines such as Clash and his best-known release is his debut album Human, eleven tracks that carved out his own artistic space in creating highly produced, emotional electronica made for both the dancefloor and sit-down concerts.

Cooper has released more than seventy original tracks and remixes and more than twenty accompanying video works, primarily on London label FIELDS and German label Traum Schallplatten. His remixes range from avant-garde composers Michael Nyman and Nils Frahm, to bands like Hot Chip and Au Revoir Simone, to techno acts such as Agoria and Dominik Eulberg.

Cooper was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland to parents of Australian descent. He was inspired to become a geneticist after reading a Stephen Hawking book as a child. Although he did not receive formal music training, Cooper started playing violin at age 12, but eventually stopped: "I never enjoyed it [violin] and didn't pursue it to any great degree—the music wasn't right to be honest."

Cooper received his Ph.D. in computational biology from Nottingham University in 2008. During his doctoral training, his research interests focused on modelling the evolution of gene regulatory networks—he specifically examined the evolution of feed-forward loops, and studied the evolutionary influences of binding site organisation during transcriptional processes. After completing his doctoral work, Cooper held a brief post-doctoral position as a geneticist at University College London.

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