Robin Fox – RADICAL TRAJECTORIES

A deep dive into sonic revolutions.

Fifty years ago, La Trobe University's music department ignited a wildfire of experimental sound that still crackles through Melbourne today. Though silenced in 1999, its spirit lives on in Narrm's underground circuits and sonic edges.

In RADICAL TRAJECTORIES, join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the LaTrobe University Music Department as audiovisual artist and La Trobe alumnus Dr Robin Fox resurrects this radical legacy through a rare activation of the department's original analogue instruments — now housed at MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio).

Feel the voltage of a movement that refused boundaries. These machines don't just make noise, they remember.

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About the Artists

Robin Fox is an internationally recognised Australian-based audio-visual artist working across live performance, exhibitions, public art and composition for contemporary dance. His audio-visual laser works, which synchronise sound and visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space, have been performed in over 60 cities worldwide.

His critically acclaimed work TRIPTYCH premiered at Unsound Krakow late 2022 and has toured extensively since with highlights including headline shows at Berlin Atonal, Barbican (London), Ephemera (Warsaw), OHM Festival Brisbane among many others. TRIPTYCH was awarded the Isao Tomita Special Prize at Ars Electronica 2023. Recent large scale audio-visual works include ICON which illuminated the Sydney Opera House for its 50th birthday, Night Sky for Brisbane Festival, Aqua Luma for Mona Foma 2021, Library of Light for Illuminate Adelaide 2021 BEACON for Mona Foma 2022, and MONOCHORD for Rising Festival 2022.

In 2016, he became the founding director of MESS, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to giving everyone access to the entire history of electronic musical instruments. He holds a PhD in composition from Monash University and an MA in musicology. The latter documents the history of experimental music in Melbourne from 1975-1979.

Founded by Robin Fox and Byron J Scullin, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS)  is dedicated to the creation of electronic sound and music. Representing one of the most eclectic and historically significant collections of electronic instruments worldwide, the ever-growing MESS collection is made available to creatives and the broader public to learn, play, and record with hundreds of electronic instruments at their fingertips.

For more information visit www.mess.foundation.

Original analogue instrument from the LaTrobe University Music Department.