Max Gibson is a British-Irish composer, sound artist, improvisor, writer, and educator, whose work spans concert music, multimedia, electronic music, and theatre. At UC Davis, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition and theory, with emphases in science and technology studies, studies in performance and practice, and environmental humanities. With a penchant for variety, and a voracious ear, his curiosity drives his experiments and explorations of sound. Drawing on medievalism, architecture, industrialism, astronomy and astrology, as well as the natural world, he is musically interested in expanded time, line and counterpoint, sound massing, the act of listening, and with configuring the space of performance and spectatorship through interdisciplinary approaches to composition. Currently, he is an Ernst Mach Scholar at the Kunstuniversität, Graz, working with the Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter. At Davis, he studies composition with Kurt Rohde and harpsichord with Faythe Vollrath. He is grateful to the many musicians, teachers, mentors and artists who have guided him on his artistic journey.