Rod Cooper is a Melbourne-based artist who works across the fields of sound, metallurgy, painting and sculpture. Since 1998, he has been transforming traditional instrument designs into new hybrids. Each sculpture features a large range of sounds, incorporating percussion, bowing mechanisms, resonant springs and acoustic noise.
Rod Cooper is part of the Sound Playground in Melbourne.
Rod has collaborated extensively with musicians and artists such as Ben Harper, Sean Baxter, Ros Bandt, Marco Fusinato, Dale Gorfinkel, Anthony Magen and Ross Manning, has performed at many events including The Make It Up Club Festival, Liquid Architecture, NowNow and UnSound. He has also toured his hybrid forms to Ireland, New Zealand, America, Indonesia and the UK. In 2010, he was the recipient of an Asialink residency grant.
