Robin Fox
Biography
Robin Fox is a Melbourne based sound and visual artist currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and installation settings. He creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope, which have been released on the DVD 'backscatter' (synaesthesia records). The DVD has recently screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Mittwoschule in Berlin, the 8th International New Media Arts Festival in Riga and the TRANSIT festival Switzerland. Live audiovisual performances have taken place across Europe in 2004, at the Netmage festival, Bologna, the Wien Modern festival, Vienna, Noise and Glamour Festival, Moscow and the Transacoustic festival, Auckland in 2005. This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio controlled laser system with recent performances at the Institute for modern Art Brisbane, NIME06 Paris, Wellington International Jazz Festival (NZ), Williamstown Festival (Melbourne) and with Oren Ambarchi at Penguin House Tokyo and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu. Performances have also taken place recently at the Totally Huge New Music Festival Perth (April 07), Chambers installation (IMA Brisbane May 07). A major European tour took place in May/June 2007 with laser based presentations at Musique Action Festival (Nancy, France), VENN festival (Bristol, UK), Music Genera Festival (Szczesin, Poland) and Neia Musik Festival (Mulhouse, France) among numerous other appearances. His recent installation work Volta has featured at the RoslynOxley9 and Orange Regional art galleries in 2006.
Musically, he has performed with some of the world's leading improvisers including Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Oren Ambarchi, Lasse Marhaug, Clayton Thomas (album Substation released by Room40 records 2005), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Sean Baxter among many others and has an ongoing collaborative duo with composer/performer Anthony Pateras. This duo is documented on Coagulate released through synaesthesia in 2003 and Flux Compendium released on eMego in 2006. He is also a member of Beta-erko, a quartet recently released on Berlin based Quecksilber label.
Fox is a regular performer and speaker at Festivals around Australia (What is Music, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, SOOB, NowNOW, Big Day Out) and performs regularly across Europe.
All releases available through Synaesthesia: www.synrecords.com
He also has a PhD in composition, from Monash University focussing on the development of multi-channel performance ecologies and the design of interactive electro-acoustic situations that explore the dynamic between performer, space and computer and an MA in musicology, which documents the history of experimental music making in Melbourne 1975-9.