Gray Area Presents:
Max Cooper – 3D/AV Live – Feeling Is Structure Tour
Thursday, July 16
Max Cooper returns to Gray Area with his Feeling Is Structure Tour for two nights only of immersive 3D audiovisual electronic music.
Gray Area Presents:
Max Cooper 3D/AV Live Feeling Is Structure Tour
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Doors: 7:00PM
21+
Standing performance
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
About 3D/AV Live
3D/AV Live is Max Cooper's immersive audio-visual performance system.
Customized to every venue, with every show a unique experience, Max works together with architecture and space to deliver his unique blend of scientific and human stories that move off the screen to wrap the audience in sculptures of light and sound.
The tour will showcase Max’s latest album Feeling Is Structure plus material spanning Cooper’s celebrated catalogue, alongside new compositions that continue his exploration of the human experience through music.
Drawing on an extensive portfolio of conceptual album projects, the experience is catered to seated or standing events, classical or techno, given his rich catalogue of genre spanning musical and visual content. 3D/AV tells the story of the foundations of our world, and our place in it, as a living feeling experience.
"Striking performances that are nothing short of pure spectacle"
- Resident Advisor
"Brooding, grinding, slow-burning emotional techno"
- Resident Advisor
"Go see him live, it's just an absolute wild experience"
- Thomas Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 6 Music
"Jaw-dropping, and - the word is overused, but here it’s 100% valid - immersive"
- Sonar
"Beautiful electronic music inspired by the natural world"
- Vogue
"Astonishing… 90 exhilarating, life-affirming minutes"
- Electronic Sound
"It’s a mighty explosion of colour and sound, like the universe is fragmenting before our very eyes - the sheer mind-bending array of imagery is astonishing…"
- Electronic Sound
About the Artist
Max Cooper
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.
As an artist synonymous with the evolution of club culture, Cooper honed his craft as a DJ with a 10-year residency at legendary Midlands techno event Firefly where he formed a foundational relationship with Architecture Social Club, with whom he still collaborates on extravagant immersive installations.
"I want to encourage the acceptance of electronic music as an art form like any other. Bringing electronic music and abstract audio-visual projects into concert halls, museums and galleries is liberating - the art world opens up doors to communicate in ways that aren’t possible elsewhere."
Cooper's newest release On Being, an exploration of the "desperate experience of being human", is his tenth studio album. Crafted over two years, gathering thousands of anonymous quotes to use as creative fuel, this is Cooper's first attempt to use the experiences of his audience as inspiration for his music - rather than attempting to influence his audience's experiences with his music. "I hadn't realised the impact that other people's words would have on me."
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."
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