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Max Cooper 3D/AV Live: Feeling Is Structure Album Tour

Duration

3 hours (including interval)

Date

Fri 15 May 2026

Venue

Butterworth Hall

Need to know

Tickets: £35 / £32 / £29

Students: £20

Groups: Parties of 10 or more get one free ticket. Please contact our box office for more information and to book.

Recommended Age:

14+ (Under 16s to be accompanied by a responsible adult)

Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist 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 electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, 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 purified forms of electronic music carried a lot of weight for me, as did the reductive natural aesthetics of the sciences. 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 career transition, 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 of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, Barbican Centre, W1 Curates, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the Pompidou Metz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.

Support Act - Michael Diamond

Michael Diamond is an experimental electronic-jazz producer, musician, clinician and researcher whose work lies at the meeting point of these seemingly disparate worlds. Informed by this rare background, Michael creates finely-detailed music that moves between deep listening and dancefloor energies. His work is underlined by his expanding interest in how music can influence mind, body and wellbeing.

Michael's records have been sold around the world, and he has performed at leading venues, radio stations and festivals globally. He founded and runs the label and creative outlet Vāsuki Sound.

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Foyer Takeover

We are also proud to be presenting Max Cooper in conjunction with DeliaPhonic who will take over our gallery foyer from 7pm with DJ sets and interactive sound experiments with School of Noise. DeliaPhonic is an annual celebration of the life and work of Coventry-born electronic music pioneer and composer Delia Derbyshire.