Biography
Robin Fox, an Australian experimental artist with classical composition training, has gained recognition primarily through live shows and installations that employ lasers alongside smoke machines, converting spontaneous laptop-generated tones and signals into vivid three-dimensional imagery. On record he has worked at length with Anthony Pateras and Oren Ambarchi while releasing solo material through Editions Mego, where his incisive and occasionally turbulent tracks inject vivid electronic energy into the electro-acoustic improvisation community.
Fox and Pateras, both members of Martin Ng Turntable Orchestra, made their first appearance together on the 2003 Synaesthesia release Coagulate, a dense and glitch-ridden improvisation set issued by the Melbourne shop and label. The next year Fox appeared on Pateras’ Mutant Theatre, part of John Zorn’s Tzadik Composer Series. In 2005 the pair joined Martin Ng and MC Vulk Makedonski for the experimental hip-hop endeavor Beta Erko, whose album I’m OK You’re OK came out on Quecksilber; that same year Fox also recorded the duo album Substation with double bassist Clayton Thomas for Lawrence English’s Room40 imprint.
Fox and Pateras returned to Editions Mego in 2007 with Flux Compendium, around the same time Synaesthesia issued Fox’s solo DVD Backscatter shortly before the label shut down. Their next joint effort, End of Daze, appeared on the Austrian imprint in 2008. Fox’s first solo album for the label, A Handful of Automation, followed in 2010. Bocian Records of Poland put out his 7-inch “More Impossible Futures” in 2011, and the Fox-Ambarchi collaboration Connected surfaced on Kranky the following year. Three years after that, Fox delivered his second solo album, A Small Prometheus, once again via Editions Mego.
Fox and Pateras, both members of Martin Ng Turntable Orchestra, made their first appearance together on the 2003 Synaesthesia release Coagulate, a dense and glitch-ridden improvisation set issued by the Melbourne shop and label. The next year Fox appeared on Pateras’ Mutant Theatre, part of John Zorn’s Tzadik Composer Series. In 2005 the pair joined Martin Ng and MC Vulk Makedonski for the experimental hip-hop endeavor Beta Erko, whose album I’m OK You’re OK came out on Quecksilber; that same year Fox also recorded the duo album Substation with double bassist Clayton Thomas for Lawrence English’s Room40 imprint.
Fox and Pateras returned to Editions Mego in 2007 with Flux Compendium, around the same time Synaesthesia issued Fox’s solo DVD Backscatter shortly before the label shut down. Their next joint effort, End of Daze, appeared on the Austrian imprint in 2008. Fox’s first solo album for the label, A Handful of Automation, followed in 2010. Bocian Records of Poland put out his 7-inch “More Impossible Futures” in 2011, and the Fox-Ambarchi collaboration Connected surfaced on Kranky the following year. Three years after that, Fox delivered his second solo album, A Small Prometheus, once again via Editions Mego.
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