Heather Frasch
Research
My artistic practice intertwines instruments, DIY kinetic objects, text, technological tools, sounds, experimental notation, synthesizers, theory, live electronics, within events, performances, installations and scores. Often several of these works and practices are connected by a thread of conceptual investagation into larger artistic research projects. The various mediums, collaborations and formats of these practices opens up the possibilities of perspectives that can emerge.
More details and documentation about my Artistic Research:
https://heather-frasch.squarespace.com/artistic-research
Digital Boxes
Digital Boxes is a versatile digital instrument constructed from cigar boxes. With microphones, sensors & objects hidden inside, the instrument serves as a vessel for hiding/revealing material during the pieces that it interprets.
Filtering |Resonating
This is a series of works that explores the conceptual and sonic possibilities of using objects as physical filters.
Fragile Environments
Fragile Environments: harnessing creative interventions in sound composition and music technologies to encourage imaginative listening and increased agency in facing the climate emergency.
Sonic Entangelments
This is a series of works (for performer-composer and notated compositions) using DIY kinetic objects that are manipulated live, enhanced with real-time electronics and samples, then blended with synthesizers to create textural polyphonic composition.
Sense Boxes
This interactive installation brings physicality back from the touch-less world of disembodied electroacoustic music asking the question “If you could touch a sound what would it feel like?”
Shadow Boxes
for performers, kinetic sound objects & shadows
Technology: Inaudible sine tones, transducers, kinetic objects (vibrating surfaces & moving objects) & 2 LED lights
Outreach
Weaving Broken Threads
for performer-composer and digital boxes
Still & Stretched: a mute tumult of memories
work for chamber ensemble and live electronics (score and sound in video)
Textural Study No 1: for kinetic sound sculptures & real-time electronics 2023
Commissioned by the Musica di Strada Exhibition, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin.
2022
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Academic lecture