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<big><big><b>ARTIST TALK w/ Robin Fox (AU)</b></big></big>
brought to you by Videotage
<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday
7 October 2007, 4pm</span> </big></p>
<p>KLUUBB, 14/F Fu Tak Building, Wan Chai (Causeway Bay MTR)
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<p>Following his performance for the opening of October
Contemporary, visiting artist Robin Fox will be coming to discuss
synaesthesia and demonstrating his Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
(oscillating laser), which he combines with an immersive sound
performance.
He will also be discussing his unique approach to lap-top performance
and programming, an important topic for all live performing media
artists today.
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<p><a href="http://emma.ideoconcepts.com/emma/rdr,12880,0,5487236.html">www.myspace.com/fox_robin</a>
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<p><b>Bio</b>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robin Fox's</span>
laser show describes, in three-dimensional visual space, the geometry
of sound. Enveloping the audience in synchronous sound and light
information, the experience resembles a synaesthetic experience where
what you hear is also what you see. The same electricity generated to
move the speaker cones is sent simultaneously to high-speed motors that
deflect the laser light on an x/y axis. The laser-based performance is
an extension of previous work undertaken using Cathode Ray
Oscilloscopes to create audio-visual equivalence. Recent performances
have taken place across Australia, Japan and Europe. </p>
<p>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). This work, in
constant development and 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.
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<p>Musically, he has performed with some of the world’s
leading improvisers including Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Oren Ambarchi, Lasse
Marhaug, Jerome Noetinger, 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. </p>
<p>All releases available through Synaesthesia: <a
href="http://emma.ideoconcepts.com/emma/rdr,12880,1,5487236.html">www.synrecords.com</a>
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<p>Fox 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.
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