Franklin Cox

Life

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, for solo flute

  Recordings

• The New Cello, Vol 1 – American Composers. Centaur Records 2994.
• New Music Series Volume 4. Neuma Records 450-102. 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
• C-squared

  Literary works

• Vol. 6: Facets of the Second Modernity..
• Vol. 5: Critical Composition Today..
• Vol. 4: Electronics in New Music..
• Vol. 3: The Foundations of Contemporary Composing..
• Vol. 2: Musical Morphology..
• Vol. 1: Polyphony & Complexity ..

  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 :
• "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 :
• "Toward an Intelligent Corporality: The Virtual Body". In Ars 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
• "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 :
• "Towards a Projective Music," Musik & Ästhetik :
• "Elliott Carter´s Figment". Musik & Ästhetik :
• "Der Zustand der neuen Musik," booklet for the series Neue Musik im Buecherturm, Offenbach, Germany, 1997.