Awesome Max Cooper

(Flashing Images) The rhythmic track I Exist Inside This Machine is accompanied by an appropriately mechanical music video by artist Henning M. Lederer. The intense, high-contrast imagery takes us deep inside the inner workings of a massive machine driven by human thoughts, emotions, and movements. From the album On Being, due 2.28.2025.

Filmmakers Ryo Kitabatake and Takuma Sasaki created this experimental short film about the everyday pressures that weigh on all of us. The tentacled mass that tugs at our protagonist is boldly symbolic of the complex and intertwined nature of modern life’s responsibilities. Music and sound design by Max Cooper.

Visual artist Kevin McGloughlin teamed up with with musician Max Cooper for this mindbending audio-visual collaboration. Reminiscent of the work of the great Philip Glass, Cooper’s repetitive and driving sounds are reflected in surreal scenes which were digitally copied, tweaked, and pasted to repeat endlessly.