'Waves' is the first single to be lifted from Max Cooper's second album 'Emergence'

'Emergence' is an epic, operatic, ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, 
art installation and IDM record, the debut release on Max Cooper’s Mesh label and his second full-length release.

The record was conceived as a soundtrack to a new series of 11 pieces of video art, each exploring 

a different facet of the concept of ‘emergence’. The full A/V live show will premiere at Mutek, 

Japan on November 2nd 2016. Together the work is a marriage between the cosmic awe of a Carl Sagan film 

and the musical wonderment of Sigur Ros, made for meditating on the mystery of our emotional 

connection to fundamental natural form.

The Pillars of Creation don't exist anymore

"...I know that when we look up to the sky we are looking at the past—seconds, minutes, years, 

centuries and millennia away. The Universe is the most amazing of the time machines.

But the fact that I understand all this doesn't matter. Every time I think about it, I experience 

the same sensation. One of awe and humility. And also of wonderment, thinking that my own existence 

and the existence of the people around me, the people I loved, the people I love, and the people 

I will love, can't be seen yet from the vantage point of those pillars. If there's a spaceship around 

those space coordinates using magic telescopes capable of focusing on Earth and seeing details, 

they wouldn't know of our existence unless they wait for 7,000 years. For them, right now, we don't exist.

That's when I realize that we truly stand alone in the middle of this huge storm that is the Universe. 

And every time I think about that, my friends, that's when my mind and my heart explode..."