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YOU CAN DO SOME THINGS WITH AI that you can’t do any other way. That’s where it’s really useful and interesting, artistically,” Max Cooper says. It’s not surprising to hear Cooper give his stamp of approval to automation. The London-based electronic musician, producer, DJ, sound designer and audio-visual artist uses AI regularly in his pursuits as a creative polymath. Sometimes it’s for efficiency while composing. But Cooper, who has always been “obsessed” with visual art, has also experimented with generative AI for imagery to compliment his music.
Digital Frontier are speaking to Cooper from their offices in East London’s Tech City on a mild November morning. He apologises for being late to our meeting. Perhaps he spent too long entranced by the rainbow colours he’d seen streaming through a crack in his bedroom window earlier. Getting distracted by unusual permutations of light used to get him into trouble at school. We are much more forgiving.
Punctuality aside, we’re here to talk about Cooper’s creative processes, AI and his seventh album, “On Being” (released on February 28), which seeks to understand what it is to be human.
