Feature: Greg Fox Performing a Live Score to Tauba Auerbach's Pilot Wave Induction III, 2018
Tauba Auerbach’s video Pilot Wave Induction III restages a physics experiment in which a silicone droplet bounces on its own wave in a pool resting in a vibrating speaker. The video’s soundtrack is a polyrhythmic drumming performance by Greg Fox, alternating between fluttering and hypnagogic, recorded specifically for the video. Illustrating a bizarre wave-participle relationship, the sphere’s movement appears manipulated after-the-fact—but is actually undoctored. Lighting, focus and shutter speed are responsible for the various prismatic qualities of the footage, while the pulsing sublimation of Fox’s performance extends its fitful dreamlike quality.
On November 30, 2018, Greg Fox performed a live score to Pilot Wave Induction III at Paula Cooper Gallery, on the occasion of the Tauba Auerbach’s one-person exhibition, A BROKEN STREAM. Read more about the show in the links below.
Andria Hickey, “Tauba Auerbach (In)visible Flow,” L’Officiel Art, N. 28, Dec–Jan–Feb 2018-2019
Tom McGlynn, “TAUBA AUERBACH with Tom McGlynn,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 11, 2018
Anh Tuan Pham, “The Scientist,” Office Magazine, December 20, 2018
Greg Fox: Contact
RVNG Intl. Records
Release Date May 29, 2020
Produced and mixed by Randall Dunn,
Greg Fox’s new record is an extension and evolution of the multi-disciplinary artist’s rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices. On Contact, the devoted performer, intrepid composer and avid collaborator channels an alchemy of influences and ideas through the kinetic exchange of human and percussive forms.
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Greg Fox is a multi-instrumentalist, interdisciplinary artist, and teacher born and based in New York City. A versatile and prolific creative, Fox has toured, recorded and released numerous records with Liturgy, Guardian Alien, ZS, Ex Eye, Skeletons, Teeth Mountain, Dan Deacon, Colin Stetson, Ben Frost, and many more. Learn more
Tauba Auerbach (b 1981) is an artist living and working in New York. Her work addresses topology, symbology and consciousness, probing the structures and slippages therein. Though best known for painting, Auerbach works in a wide variety of media including weaving, glass, photography, 3D printing, book-making and musical instrument design. In 2013 she founded Diagonal Press to formalize her ongoing publishing practice. Auerbach’s work is included in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Centre Pompidou among others. She is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and STANDARD (Oslo), Norway. In 2020, Auerbach’s first museum survey, S v Z, will open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more