Jim Fox (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American composer, and also founder, director, producer, and designer of the "small but influential" recording label Cold Blue Music.
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), are slow, creating tension and interest through unpredictable change within a generally repetitive idiom. Fox studied composition with Phil Winsor at DePaul University, Chicago. He also studied composition as a postgraduate with Barney Childs and taught electronic music, orchestration, and acoustics at the University of Redlands. Along with Childs and Elliott Schwartz, Fox is a co-editor of the 1998 expanded edition of the anthology Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, published by Da Capo Press.
FoxâÂÂs 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.
Some interviews with Jim Fox:
Textura, June 2021. âÂÂFive Questions with Jim Foxâ by Ron Schepper<br> Kathodik (Italy), December 16, 2022, âÂÂInterview with Jim Fox, CEO of American Record Label Cold Blue Musicâ by Marco Paolucci.<br> New Classic LA, April 30, 2018. âÂÂAn Interview with Jim Fox of Cold Blue Musicâ by Cristina Lord.<br> Mark Alburger: âÂÂFoxy Composer-Producer, â 21st-Century Music, vol.12/1 (2005), 1âÂÂ5<br> Barney Childs: âÂÂInterview with Jim Fox,â Perspectives of New Music, vol.24/2 (1986), 236âÂÂ40
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