Tom Cox is a songwriter and audio producer based in Chicago, IL.
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Modal Fixture
Modal Fixture
Introducing my first solo album, Modal Fixture, available everywhere this summer!
Modal Fixture is the first collection of songs I’ve written and made on my own. The music is made up of succinct songs that are performed and arranged with a specific blend of atmosphere and immediacy. My influences in songwriting and production aesthetic include Robert Lester Folsom, Wilco, and Dinosaur Jr.
The album title is a play on a music theory term, Modal Mixture, where you substitute a chord with an altered version of it. Anyways, I liked the play on words and was interested in thinking of the two words together in a more abstract sense. I like the idea of the words being at odds with each other, with something that is stable or fixed also being modal, modular, and variable.
I think the title relates to the lyrics in the songs, which each in their own way orbit around the ideas of living with abstractions and navigating ambiguity, recognizing the modal fixtures in life that are constant, ever-changing, and unknowable.
Written sporadically over 2016 - 2024, recorded and mixed from 2023-2024 in my home studio.
Website Pages
Check the Discography tab for links to all of the published recordings of projects I’ve worked on over the years.
For more info on the artists I’ve worked with and bands I’ve been a part of, follow the link to the Bands page.
Visit the Film Sound page to see my work in film and other visual media as a music composer, sound designer, and mixer.
To get in touch, visit the Contact page.
To see my current resume, check the CV tab.