Max Chung is a contemporary multi-media sound artist and composer in New York City who blurs the boundaries between EDM, interactive responsive visual technologies and acoustical instrumentation. His recent work has been focused on our shifting perceptions of time that affect our relationship between emotion and temporal illusions. His work explores the current psychological instability that shapes our culture today.
Chung creates immersive audiovisual experiences that incorporates technology like body tracking AI systems to create electronic instruments that explore the connection between audio and physical gestures. His work focuses on creating responsive architecture that captures the relationship of sound and movement to define a new kind of embodied experience that highlights the psychological instability that shapes our experience of the world.
Max’s work has been performed by the Neave Trio, Hypercube, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the PRISM saxophone quartet, Alice Ivy-Pemberton and the Yarn/Wire Ensemble. Performance of his compositions include the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the New York Interactive Arts Performance Series, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for performing Arts, the Longy School of Music and the Atlantic Music Festival. He received a B.A. from Brown University in Music and a M.M. in music technology from New York University. He currently lives and works in New York City.
