Jim Fox (composer)

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Jim Fox
Born Indianapolis, Indiana
Genres minimalism, postminimalism, Film score, classical, experimental, electronica, ambient
Occupation(s)musician, composer, teacher, record producer, designer
Years activeEarly 1970s–present
Labels Cold Blue Music
Website jimfoxmusic.com

Jim Fox (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) [1] [2] is an American composer, and also founder, director, producer, and designer of the "small but influential" [2] recording label Cold Blue Music. [1] [2] [3]

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His compositions, often for small and unusual instrumentations (e.g., The City the Wind Swept Away is scored for piano, solo strings, two trombones and two bass trombones) [4] , are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom. [2] Fox studied composition with Phil Winsor [1] at DePaul University, Chicago. He also studied composition as a postgraduate with Barney Childs [1] and taught electronic music, orchestration, and acoustics at the University of Redlands.

Fox’s Cold Blue Music label, from the early 1980s through the present, has championed the works of many composers, often those with West Coast connections of one sort or another, especially the work of John Luther Adams, Peter Garland, Daniel Lentz, Chas Smith, Michael Byron, Michael Jon Fink, and Rick Cox. [5] [6] [7] [8]

Some interviews with Jim Fox:

Textura, June 2021. “Five Questions with Jim Fox” by Ron Schepper [5]
Kathodik (Italy), December 16, 2022, “Interview with Jim Fox, CEO of American Record Label Cold Blue Music” by Marco Paolucci. [9]
New Classic LA, April 30, 2018. “An Interview with Jim Fox of Cold Blue Music” by Cristina Lord.
Mark Alburger: “Foxy Composer-Producer, ” 21st-Century Music, vol.12/1 (2005), 1–5
Barney Childs: “Interview with Jim Fox,” Perspectives of New Music, vol.24/2 (1986), 236–40


Recorded Compositions

Source: [10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jim Fox (article)", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gann, Kyle, Jim Fox, (article may be downloaded here): Chamber Music, pp. 38–39
  3. "Cold Blue Music (article)", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online
  4. Unrein, Scott, Jim Fox’s ‘The City the Wind Swept Away’: Considering Juxtaposition and Decay as Structure., Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism, September 2009{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. 1 2 Schepper, Ron, Five Questions with Jim Fox, Textura, June 2021
  6. Grella, George, "The Resonant Beauty of Cold Blue Music", Bandcamp Daily, Bandcamp
  7. Fox, Jim, Too Many Records, International Record Review, p. 88
  8. Lord, Christina (2018-04-30), An Interview with Jim Fox of Cold Blue Music, New Classic LA
  9. Paolucci, Marco (2022-12-16), Interview with Jim Fox, CEO of American Record Label Cold Blue Music,” Kathodik (Italy), Kathodik
  10. Cold Blue Music website
  11. Here (and there), Innova, 2013
  12. FOR BC: THE REDLANDS SESSIONS, 2007
  13. New Raptorial Moon, 1992
  14. Marty Walker - Clarinets, 1984