Robin Fox is an internationally recognized Australian based audio-visual artist and composer whose work spans live performance, exhibitions, public art and composition for contemporary dance. His audio visual laser works, which synchronise sound & visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space have been performed in over 60 cities worldwide. His critically acclaimed performance work TRIPTYCH premiered at Unsound Krakow late 2022 and has toured extensively since with highlights including Berlin Atonal, Barbican (London), Ephemera (Warsaw) and the Lincoln Centre New York among many others. TRIPTYCH was awarded the Isao Tomita Special Prize for electronic music at Ars Electronica 2023.
Recent large scale audio-visual works include ICON which illuminated the Sydney Opera House for it’s 50th birthday (2023), Aqua Luma for Mona Foma 2021, Library of Light for Illuminate Adelaide 2021 and MONOCHORD for Rising Festival 2022. In 2019 his science fiction opera DIASPORA premiered at the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Made in collaboration with Chamber Made the work won Green Room Awards for Best Production and Best Visual Design.
Since 2008 he has composed music for over 25 contemporary dance works working with Australian choreographic luminaries Stephanie Lake Company, Gideon Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin and Antony Hamilton.
In 2016 Fox co-founded MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio) a not for profit organization dedicated to empowering all people to build a creative life through music. For more info visit www.mess.foundation.
Fox holds a PhD in composition from Monash University and an MA in musicology. The latter documents the history of experimental music in Melbourne 1975-1979.