MARILYN ROXIE - ABOUT

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Hi, I’m Marilyn Roxie. I’m the founder of Creative Commons netlabel Vulpiano Records and I work for Rate Your Music / Sonemic as Community and Social Media Manager.

I am a graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University with an MA in filmmaking and have a BA in Studio Art from San Francisco State University, focusing on digital media and emerging technologies and minoring in sexuality studies. In my art, I often like to explore androgyny and interrogate maleness and submission, often with the aid of what is available for adaptation in the public domain and Creative Commons sphere.

In my free time, I love to make bots, playlists, read, and play video games.

Art

My studies and personal projects involve a mixture of analog and digital techniques, including 35mm photography, digital photography, video art, and collage. Androgynous models, dolls, toys, and harmony between the virtual / natural worlds are recurring images in my work.

In 2018, I began to work with Twine and Twitter bots, releasing some divinatory projects (The Public Tarot and Songs of Near and Far Away) and meditations on pretty boys and the occult (10,000 Imaginary Boys).

You can find my full exhibition history here.

Music

My own musical interests initially developed through a childhood love of Kraftwerk’s Computer World, playing the keyboard, and learning to play the video game soundtrack tunes of Koji Kondo and Nobuo Uematsu by ear. Through my teen years, I used a variety of guides to shape my interests and help in my quest to find music. The Rate Your Music community and 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die proved particularly influential. Icontributed to the Rate Your Music Ultimate Box Set project, making definitive genre playlists for post-Punk, coldwave, vaporwave, and mod. I am now Community and Social Media Manager at Rate Your Music and regularly curate playlists and highlight user content for the site.

I’ve been running the Creative Commons-based netlabel Vulpiano Records since November 2009. Artists from around the world have released works through Vulpiano, including Natural Snow Buildings, Derek Piotr, Calvin Markus, Neurotic Wreck, and Aseptic Void. All releases are hosted on Internet Archive, with select albums also available on Free Music Archive and Bandcamp. In November 2019, Vulpiano Records had its first limited edition physical release with Vulpiano Records 10-Year Anniversary on cassette.

I started the music blog A Future in Noise in 2008 as a place to store my thoughts on music and promote artists that I liked — particularly independent and unsigned artists — along with other team members. I released my own synth compositions beginning in 2008 through 2009, using a KORG Triton and Propellerhead Reason. I would recommend my 2009 album New Limerent Object as a starting point.