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Robin Fox is an Australian experimental artist and classically trained composer best known for his performances and installations utilizing lasers and smoke machines, transforming improvised tones and signals from his laptop into stunning 3-D visuals. As a recording artist, he has collaborated extensively with
Anthony Pateras and
Oren Ambarchi, and has issued solo albums on Editions Mego. His sharp, sometimes chaotic recordings provide a jolt of neon electricity to the improvised electro-acoustic music scene.
Fox and
Pateras (both of whom also participated in
Martin Ng Turntable Orchestra) debuted in 2003 with Coagulate, a noisy, glitchy improv album released by Melbourne-based shop/label Synaesthesia. The following year,
Fox contributed to
Pateras' Mutant Theatre album released on
John Zorn's Tzadik label as part of their Composer Series. In 2005,
Fox,
Pateras, and
Martin Ng collaborated with MC Vulk Makedonski on an experimental hip-hop project called
Beta Erko; the quartet's album
I'm OK You're OK appeared on Quecksilber. Also that year,
Fox and double bassist
Clayton Thomas collaborated for an album titled
Substation, released by
Lawrence English's
Room40 label.
Fox and
Pateras teamed up again in 2007 for Flux Compendium, released by the esteemed Austrian label Editions Mego. A
Fox solo DVD (Backscatter) was released by Synaesthesia shortly before it closed in 2007.
Fox and
Pateras released another album on Editions Mego, End of Daze, in 2008. This was followed by
Fox's 2010 solo album
A Handful of Automation for the same label. Polish label Bocian Records released
Fox's "More Impossible Futures" 7" in 2011, and
Connected (a collaboration between
Fox and
Ambarchi) appeared on Kranky in 2012. Three years later,
Fox returned to Editions Mego for his second solo album,
A Small Prometheus. ~ Paul Simpson