Max Cooper produces elaborately detailed experimental techno informed by his scientific background. He accompanies his music with an immersive, three-dimensional audiovisual show, and designs and exhibits light-field installations. Making his debut with a series of meticulously designed tech-house EPs in the late 2000s, his sound gradually expanded, incorporating influences like post-rock and neo-classical on ambitious albums such as 2016's Emergence. Cooper has collaborated extensively with vocalist Kathrin deBoer (Belleruche) and composer Tom Hodge (Piano Interrupted), and he recorded the 2020 full-length Glassforms with pianist Bruce Brubaker.