Max Coker

instagram: @maks_oker

email: max@landbuoy.xyz

website: landbuoy.xyz

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Land Buoy is here a website to host the audio visual sketches made by Max Coker. The name comes from his time on the airwaves at WUSB Stony Brook 90.1FM. his practice explores the objectivity of digital sound and video by designing models and transferring to physical entities. landbuoy expressions are modeled in virtual space for interactive performance systems.

Sound Design for Film

"Enantiodromia" collaboration with Kristi Cole Chez Bushwick, 2021 Brooklyn

Music Recordings

"Upload i Thought" album of experimental tape recordings, Phase Space, 2022 Brooklyn

"Upload ii Thoughts" album of experimental tape recordings, Phase Space, 2022 Brooklyn

"A May Day" contributed a track to a compilation of electroacoustic music, Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, 2020 Brooklyn

Residencies

Phase Space 2022 Brooklyn

Everwood Farmstead Developed an interactive audio/visual system in collaboration with choreographer Kristi Cole. July 2022 Wisconsin

Skopelos Foundation June 2023 Skopelos, Greece

Performances

"hexafloralia" audio visual performance with New Delusion, May 7, 2022 Brooklyn

"hyperborealis" audio visual performance with Nude Illusion, October 9, 2021 Brooklyn

Landbuoy on WUSB 90.1 FM music director, live programming twice monthly with original noise collage material, 2016 - 2017 Long Island

@The Living Gallery remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, 2016 - 2017 Brooklyn

@The Glove remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, 2016 - 2017 Brooklyn

@Babycastles remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, Brooklyn, 2016 - 2017

@Friends and Lovers remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, 2016 - 2017 Brooklyn

@king killer studios remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, Brooklyn, 2016 - 2017

@Shea Stadium (Bushwick) remote broadcasting on WUSB 90.1, 2016 - 2017 Brooklyn

Exhibitions

"Kalina" multiple channel video, Center for Contemporary Art, April 2023 Tbilisi

"Mercuralia" interactive audio visual installation at Phase Space, August 27, 2022 Brooklyn

"OFTEN VARY NEVER CHANGE" Facilitated the installation of an exhibition of works by Jean-Marie Appriou, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, Sebastian Black, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Ryan Foerster, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Chase Hall, Hugh Hayden, Marguerite Humeau, Zak Kitnick, Calvin Marcus, Marina Pinsky, Loïc Raguénès, and Lili Reynaud-Dewar. July 22, 2021 - August 25, 2021 @C L E A R I N G, New York

"Aleczander" Facilitated the installation of an exhibition of new works by Chase Hall April 29, 2021 - July 9, 2021 @C L E A R I N G, New York

"Video Club #4" Facilitated the installation of an exhibition of works by Ryan Foerster March 9, 2021 - March 28, 2021 @C L E A R I N G, New York

Internships

LoVid Assisted the creation of analog audiovisual synth modules while learning principles of signal processing, 2017 Long Island

David Judelson Assisted the creation of large scale sculptures while mastering drafting and woodworking techniques, 2019 Brooklyn

Teaching

Touchdesigner Techniques

Wesleyan University visiting artist event covering signal processing with live performance, November 13, 2021 Connecticut

Work Experience

RESUME