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Geoffrey Cox BMus, PhD
Studied Music at Liverpool Community College, then Huddersfield graduating with a 1st degree in Music in 1999 and a PhD in Composition in 2007, which explores the use of contemporary musical borrowing practices. He is a composer of both acoustic and electronic music in a variety of genres from avant-garde to more popular styles. Other specialisms include Popular Musicology (the history and effect of technological developments on popular music) and working with visual images in a musical context, work which has become increasingly important to his output.
He has written 25 works or so over the last six years for purely acoustic means, for a mixture of electronic and acoustic forces, for ‘tape’ alone and for film soundtrack. In doing so he has drawn both on his experience as a popular musician, and deep interest in contemporary art music. His work, Tangled Air won first prize in the ICA’s AcoustICA composition competition (2001). He has written music for Ensemble QTR and the Marisienne Quartet, receiving performances at the Cheltenham Festival (2004) and in Estonia and Germany as well as the UK. He has collaborated with film maker Keith Marley (John Moores University) to produce soundtracks to five short films one of which, Introducing: W.C. Lowry, won Mersey Film and Video’s ‘Best of Merseyside 2000’. A more recent collaboration, 3 Rhythmic Etudes (2003-6) was shown at the 2006 Bradford International Film Festival and Cider Makers has been presented at four academic conferences since 2007. He has recently published a book chapter, co-authored with Keith Marley, on their work in CineMusic? Constructing the Film Score published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Pertaining to Trees (2000)
recorder duet and tape 9’
perf. Sep 00, Paderborn, Ger, Oct 00 Canterbury, Nov 00 Purcell Rooms,
London, 4 Sep 04, Hawkhurst, 12 Sep 04, Tallinn Recorder Festival,
Tallinn, Estonia, 19 March, London, 2005, Ensemble QTR.
This piece has been performed several times over the last 5 year, both
in England and in Europe and has now been released on CD
(QTR CD06-03, 2003), which received a favourable review in Cinnamon Sticks
– The Recorder in Australia by Barnaby Ralph, December 2003.
Introducing W.C. Lowry (2000) 6’
film soundtrack (produced and directed by K. Marley)
shown Nov 00, May 01, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
You Are Not I (2001) 10’
film soundtrack/radio art (film version produced and directed by K. Marley)
perf. Mar 03, Electric Spring, Huddersfield.
Be-Bop (2001) 7’
recorder duet
Old Work (1996: rev. 2002) 17’
for small orchestra
perf. 1997, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral,
2002, Huddersfield St.Pauls Hall .
Everybody’s Down On Me 3’
electro-acoustic
Linwood (1996/2003) 10’
gtr, a. flute
I’m Not Elvis 4’
electro-acoustic
perf. Mar 04, Electric Spring, Huddersfield
Sylvan II 12’
electro-acoustic
perf. Feb 06, St. Paul’s Hall, Hudds.
Tech Data/Low Point 6’
electro-acoustic
Le Tombeau de J.D 5’
lute, 3 viols
perf. 17 Jul 04, Cheltenham Festival, The Marisienne Quartet
This piece was commissioned by SPNM after a call for proposals. It was
Performed at the Cheltenham International Festival.
Christe Redemptor Omnium 13’
organ and tape
perf. 1 and 3 Dec 04, St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield
I’m Not Elvis / Introducing W.C. Lowry (2001/03 /05) 10’
film soundtrack (produced and directed by K. Marley)
shown 12 March 05, Film and Music Conference, Bradford International Film Festival,
Bradford, 5-7 August 05, The Big Chill, Hereford.
The original Introducing W.C. Lowry won Mersey Film and Video’s
‘Best of Merseyside 2000’ and was subsequently shown twice at the
Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
3 Rhythmic Etudes (2003/04/05) 13’
electro-acoustic
perf. April 05, St Pauls Hall, Huddersfield
3 Rhythmic Etudes (2003/04/05/06)
new version with video by K. Marley.
shown at RMA Conference, Leeds University, Jan 06; Bradford Film and Music Conference (part of Bradford International Film Festival), 5 March 06.
Intertexture 15’
piano trio
Exorcise 12’
electro-acoustic
perf. Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield, 1st Feb 2009
Cider Makers 10’
film soundtrack (produced and directed by K. Marley)
shown Sound, Music and Moving Image Conference, Senate House, London,
Monday 10th Sep 07, Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research (CIMR)Conference
Music Department, School of Arts, Roehampton University, 13th Oct 07.
Vibraphone (A Kind of Loving) 12’
vibraphone and live electronics
perf. St. Pauls Hall, Hudderfsield, 25th Jan 08, Damone Harron, vibraphone
Cox, G., Marley, K., ‘Looking and Listening’, in Fox, C., Sapiro, I. eds., Cinemusic? Constructing the Film Score (Cambridge Scholars Press). Due for publication, Summer 08.
San Remo Fiori dei Mercato (2008-9) 11’
film soundtrack (produced and directed by K. Marley)
shown The National Media Museum, University of Bradford, MeCCSA 2009 Conference, 16th January 2009
Outtake 5’
Piano and live electronics
Perf. Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield, 26th Feb 2009, Philip Thomas, piano
No Escape (2008-9) 25’
Film and live piano
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2009) Performing Documentary. In: MeCCSA Conference, 14th - 16th January 2009, National Media Museum, University of Bradford. (Unpublished)
Marley, Keith and Cox, Geoffrey (2008) Looking and listening. In: Sounding Out 4, 4-6 September 2008, University of Sunderland. (Submitted)
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2008) Looking and listening. In: CineMusic? Constructing the Film Score. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 51-68. ISBN 9781847185938
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2008) Cider Makers: an exploration of the relationship between sound and image within documentary filmmaking. In: Negotiating the Mediascape: Theory and Practice Interchange in Contemporary Media, 2 May 2008, Canterbury Christ Church University. (Submitted)
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2007) Cider Makers: an exploration of the relationship between sound and image within documentary filmmaking. In: Interdisciplinary Music Research Conference, 13 October 2007, Roehampton University. (Submitted)
Cox, Geoffrey and Marley, Keith (2007) Cider Makers: an exploration of the relationship between sound and image within documentary filmmaking. In: Sound, Music and the Moving Image, 10-12 September 2007, Institute of Musical Research, Senate House. (Submitted)
Acoustic music composition.
Electroacoustic music composition.
Sound and image: theory and practice.
Popular musicology.
Music technology.
E-mail: g.m.cox@hud.ac.uk
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