About the Artist:
Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and a composer, drummer, and scholar. His first monograph, Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke UP, 2025), explores how experimental musical practices and thinking with Blackness open alternative ways of worlding. Cox’s practice spans avant-garde classical music, experimental jazz, and sound art. He has worked with ensembles and institutions such as the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Klangforum Wien at festivals such as Wien Modern, Lucerne Festival, MaerzMusik, Ultima Festival, and Opera Omaha. He has received a Fromm Foundation commission, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, and the ASCAP Fred Ho Award. Alongside his compositional work, Cox’s scholarly writing advances practice-based approaches to music as a form of research. His writing appears in Composing While Black, liquid blackness, Critical Studies in Improvisation, Sound American, American Music Review, Musik-Diskurse nach 1970, and others.
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