Max Alper
Founder
Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others. He is the founder and executive director of Klang Academy, an independent non-profit conservatory for the sonic arts and sound studies, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others. He has released music on Soap Library, Whited Sepulchre Records, Deathbomb Arc, and through self-release. Alper has written for various publications including Viscose Journal, The Baffler, Klang Magazine, Hii Magazine, Media Commons, and The American Music Review. He currently lives in Hudson Valley, NY.