Rémi Fox

Rémi Fox is a saxophonist, improviser, composer and artistic director of numerous creations in which experimentation and the search for new forms play an important role. He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with a Master’s degree in jazz and improvised music, a prize in the generative improvisation department and a Diplôme d’artiste interprète. He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon with a Certificat d’aptitude aux fonctions de professeur de musique. Rémi Fox teaches at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt and at the Pôle Supérieur de Paris Boulogne-Billancourt (Improvisation and Musical Creation). He performs throughout the world – solo and in various ensembles – confronting his music with other arts. This has led to creations with theater, dance, cinema, visual and digital arts. He develops his work during artistic creation and transmission residencies at Cité Musicale-Metz, Ateliers Médicis, Ircam, Cirque Électrique, Association Tournesol – Artistes à l’Hôpital and Villa Médicis – Académie de France in Rome.Project at Villa MédicisRémi Fox will compose a work for saxophone and electronic effects triggered in real time. The composition will combine written and improvised music, and will include sound recordings made at Villa Medici, the Isabella Scelsi Foundation and in Rome. In connection with this compositional work, he will develop an acoustic spatialization device for the needs of the work’s indoor presentation. Sounds will circulate from one corner of the space to another, creating a veritable dramaturgy of sound. “You have to get to the heart of the sound”, says the Italian composer

Giacinto Scelsi. Since their discovery, these words have continued to resonate with the saxophonist, to the point of becoming the starting point for his creative work. It is in this sense that he wishes to compose a suite of musical pieces inspired by Scelsi’s creative process. The Italian composer recorded his improvisations on magnetic tape, then entrusted the transcription to collaborators who worked under his direction. These tapes are kept at the Isabella Scelsi Foundation in Rome. Listening to and discovering these improvisations will be an invaluable source of inspiration for Rémi Fox’s creative development.

His sound experiments and improvisations will be recorded in their entirety, as Giacinto Scelsi used to do. In terms of writing, the aim is not to transcribe these recordings to score, but to create a genuine link between “ephemeral writing” – improvisation – and “lasting writing” – composition.