Max Lord

Max Lord has been playing and recording experimental noise and electronic music in Boston since the mid nineties. He played drums with the avant-rock group Bitchhiker while studying architecture at MIT, and then became half of Lord and Karlheinz with noise artist Karlheinz.

Lord then left to concentrate on his own electronic experiments, beginning to work more with synthesizers and giving solo laptop performances. During this time he released a steady stream of recordings as Max Lord and the Reprobates, all posted as free downloads on the website reprobate.pair.com. These records saw Lord developing an irrational aesthetic that combined bizarre rhythms, thick drones, large swaths of noise, and occasional excursions into deep dubs. His current work is a departure from the powerbook madness: atmospheric abstractions of free drumming and intricate analog synthesizer improvisations.