Who is Faux Pas Fox?
About the Artist
Who is Faux Pas Fox?
Faux Pas Fox is an American instrumentalist, composer, producer, and artist. He is based out of Washington State, where he grew up. After ten plus years of dedicated practice, he is an advanced clarinet player, as well as performing on bass clarinet, tin whistle, bass tin whistle, recorder, piano, and just about anything else that he can make a sound with. As a teen, he began producing electronic music on a little iPhone using GarageBand. Since then, he has taken his music production to the next level, choosing to produce in Logic Pro X.
What Makes His Music His Own?
The Faux Pas Fox sound is defined by three principles: acoustic instruments mixed with synthetic sounds; a mixing pot of genres; and complex, emotional, melodically focused structure.
Many real instruments build the foundation for his work; He is particularly interested in the mellow, airy tones of woodwinds. Accompanying these are harsh electronics, rich soundscapes, and a plethora of gathered sounds, including tin cans and broken toiletpaper holders!
Faux Pas Fox's music is inspired by many sources, mixing the sounds of Future Bass, 8-bit, hip-hop, house, underground, and grunge, as well as concert styles such as chamber ensemble, classical, baroque, avant-gaurde, Jazz and many more. He seeks to study as many musical styles as he can.
All of this is complimented by his many years in the symphony orchestra. While he may work with modern styles of music, the overall structure and heart of his works are expressed through the structure, expressiveness, and complexities found in symphonic music.
But through it all, Faux Pas Fox tries to tell a story.
"Music can change the world
because it can change people,"
- Ludwig van Beethoven
His Origin
All throughout his life, Faux Pas Fox struggled with depression, anxiety, and mental illness. His melancholic tendencies made him feel distant from the world around him, while his OCD, Tourettes syndrome, and Trichotillomania were a constant reminder that he was different. He spent his days lost in thought, pondering theology, philosophy, and the deepest depths of the human condition, trying to understand his deep sin and darkest desires. Being met with his reflection, all he saw brokenness, darkness, and something frightful.
Music was became his refuge. It all began with little pieces scribbled out on scratch paper, then larger ensembles created on GarageBand. Then came electronica. Many people think of electronic and symphonic music as being at odds with each other, but Faux Pas Fox took the best of both worlds and mixed them together into something new and unexpected; the expression of symphonic and the dramatics of virtuosic playing mixed with the unlimited possibilities of the synthesizer. Through intense study of performance, production, theory, and genre, he spilled the inner-workings of his soul into the wordless form of music.
But still, the problem of his strife. Lead to the edges of despair, Faux Pas Fox felt he had no where to turn. He couldn't find peace within himself; he had tried, and like all before who were honest with themselves, none could be found. Peace could not be found in the workings of the world; in nature, in politics, in desire, in empty philosophy. But just in time, He was met with the true, unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Unlike anything the world had to offer, Christ had an answer for the way he was, the darkness inside him, the darkness of the world, the longing for perfection, that perfection was unattainable in the world, and most importantly, a solution for the his weakness.
To this day, Faux Pas Fox still struggles with his afflictions, though he now finds assurance in the Blood of Christ, shed for his sins and the sins of the world
His Mission
Originally, music was a sort of therapy for Faux Pas Fox, helping him to express the winds of his mind when words failed. As time went on, those around him noticed the raw emotions and the theraputic "Doctrine of the Affections." Those around him encouraged him to publish his work.
Faux Pas fox strives to make complex, emotionally in-depth music to give his listeners the means to express themselves. There are so many hurting people out in the world, and if music can give a momentairy releif and show that they are not alone, he seeks to bring it in his quest to glorify God with his work.