Franklin Cox

Franklin Cox (born Charleston, Illinois, United States, 1961) is an American composer and cellist. He composes music in the school of New Complexity (Duncan 2010, 139) and his performances range from new music to classical chamber works.

This article is about the musician. For the architect, see Frank Cox (architect).

Life

Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Pace 1995, 37).

He is currently (2020) Associate Professor of Cello at Wright State University, heading Music Theory classes and the cello studio in the School of Music. His ongoing concert series, The New Cello, features his work in addition to other composers that explore new possibilities on the instrument through extended techniques and microtonality.

Compositions
  • Di-remption, for solo percussionist
  • Four Pieces for double bass
  • If on a Winter's Night ..., for solo clarinet
  • Clairvoyance, for violin solo
  • Clairvoyance, transcribed for cello solo
  • Recoil, for cello soloå
  • viz., for chamber ensemble
  • Chronopolis (1996), for solo flute

Recordings
  • The New Cello, Vol 1 – American Composers. Centaur Records 2994 (2010).
  • New Music Series Volume 4. Neuma Records 450-102 (2002). Includes Shift, for five cellos, performed by Frank Cox.
  • Surplus Live auf Solitude. Stuttgart: Edition Solitude, ACD 6024-3. Includes R, performed by Surplus, dir. James Avery.
  • Pierre-Yves Artaud, flauto. Milan: Rusty Classica, RUS 555019.2. Includes Chronopolis, performed by Pierre-Yves Artaud.

Ensembles
  • Group For Contemporary Music
  • Exposé
  • Surplus
  • Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
  • Ensemble Köln
  • Extended Vocal Resources Ensemble (founding member)
  • C-squared (founding member)

Bibliography

Literary works

Co-editor of book series: New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Franklin Cox, Wolfram Schurig, co-editors. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag:

  • Vol. 6: Facets of the Second Modernity (2008). ISBN 978-3-936000-17-7.
  • Vol. 5: Critical Composition Today (2006). ISBN 3-936000-16-6.
  • Vol. 4: Electronics in New Music (2006). ISBN 3-936000-15-8.
  • Vol. 3: The Foundations of Contemporary Composing (2004). ISBN 3-936000-14-X.
  • Vol. 2: Musical Morphology (2004). ISBN 3-936000-13-1.
  • Vol. 1: Polyphony & Complexity (2002). ISBN 3-936000-10-7.

Articles
  • "Helmut Lachenmann als romantischer Hochmodernist". In auf (-) und zuhören, edited by Hans-Peter Jahn, . Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2005.
  • "Musical Progress? New Music and the Perils of Progressivist Historicism". In The Foundations of Contemporary Composing, edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2004.
  • "Rhythmic Morphology and Temporal Experience: Doubles, for Piano and Taped Synthesizers". In Musical Morphology, edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig, . Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2004.
  • Frank Cox, Steven Takasugi, Erik Ulman, "Zum Andenken Mark Osborns," Musik & Ästhetik (Jan. 2003):
  • "Musical Progress? New Music and the Perils of Progressivist Historicism," trans. into Italian, "Il progresso musicale? La musica nova e i pericoli dello storicismo progressivista," Musica/realtà ( July 2003):
  • "Toward an Intelligent Corporality: The Virtual Body". In Ars (in)humana?, edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Younghi Pagh-Paan, . Bremen: Einwurf, 2003.
  • "Notes Toward a Performance Practice for Complex Music". In Polyphony & Complexity, edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig, . Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2002.
  • "'Virtual' Polyphony: Clairvoyance, for solo violin," Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, Wolfram Schurig, eds., Polyphony & Complexity (Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2002)
  • "Über John Cage". In Mythos Cage, edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, . Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 1999.
  • "Music and the Sacred," contribution to program book for 2001 Hannover Tage.
  • "Elliott Carter's Elegy and Figment," contribution to program book for 2001 Lucerne Festival.
  • "Elliott Carter's String Quartets, performed by the Arditti Quartet," Musik & Ästhetik ( Jan. 2000):
  • "Towards a Projective Music," Musik & Ästhetik (Dec. 1999):
  • "Elliott Carter´s Figment". Musik & Ästhetik (Dec. 1998):
  • "Der Zustand der neuen Musik," booklet for the series Neue Musik im Buecherturm, Offenbach, Germany, 1997.

References
  • Duncan, Stuart Paul. 2010. "Re-Complexifying the Function(s) of Notation in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough and the 'New Complexity'". Perspectives of New Music 48, no. 1 (Winter): 136–72.
  • Pace, Ian. 1995. "Frank Cox and Brian Ferneyhough". Tempo, new series, no. 194 (Italian Issue) (October): 37–38.
  • Tagasugi, Steven Kazuo, and Erik Ulman. 1998. "Frank Cox' Spuren", translated by Christiane Tewinkel. Musik & Ästhetik 2, no. 7 (July): 53–68.
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