Performer-Composer
flute /// laptop & electronics /// sonic creations
Frasch actively performers her own compositions and the works of others, as a soloist and in collaborations. She customizes her performance set up for each project, sometimes building instruments specifically for that creation. Coming from a classical music tradition, she has performed contemporary and experimental works with sfSound when living in the Bay Area (2007-2010). Her current practice includes experimental collaborations such as with: lo wie, Manfred Werder, Ryoko Akama and Post Music. In some other collaboration projects she explores open compositional structures and textured sounds such as with: Annette Krebs, Evelyn Ficarra, Myra Melford, Max Murray and Axel Dorner.
Selected Solos:
Textural Study No. 1: for kinetic sound sculptures and real time electronics
weaving broken threads for solo composer-performer for digital cigar boxes, objects and strings
The sound of Objets Helps me Remember for objects and electronics as part of the Amplify2020 Quarantine Series
Borrowed Words for miniature kinetic objects & shadows 2019-2020
Collaboration with Annette Krebs for new compositions and digital instrument assemblages (Berlin 2021)
From Vibrant Matter Portraits #1: Clara d’Asis. with Seji Morimoto and Maggie Kammerer. Km28 Berlin 2019
Selections from Borrowed Words for Kinetic Sound Creations & Shadows //// Heather Frasch - Performer/ Composer /// Post Paradise Series. Birmingham UK May 2019. Video by: Zunaira Muzaffar
Repetition Variation 1.2 by Sarah Hughes /// Realized by: Lan Cao (objects), Heather Frasch (sine tones & object speakers), Joe Houston (piano), Felicity Mangan (objects) & Brett Thompson (guitar) ///
Vibrant Matter Series, Berlin 2017
Less Than words can Say by Audra Wolowiec /// Realized by: Heather Frasch (flute) ///
Studio 8, Berlin 2016 Live Performance
Collaboration with sound poet lo wie || Berlin and London 2017
Selected Collaborations:
Linking Album by Heather Frasch and Ryoko Akama. Meenna Label 2020
pneuma : Flute, Heather Frasch /// Trumpet, Axel Dorner //// Tuba, Max Murray
reductive journal ensemble with: Ryoko Akama (objects, electronics), Daniela Cascella (voice, objects), Heather Frasch (flute, objects), Jürg Frey (clarinet), Bruno Guastalla (cello, bandoneon), Sarah Hughes (objects, zither), Daniel del Rio (turntable), David Stent (objects, guitar), Manfred Werder (traces)
post music with Lucio Capece /// Heather Frasch /// Joseph Kudirka /// Koen Nutters /// Joanna Baille /// lo wie
les soeurs sonores live electronic / laptop duo with Evelyn Ficarra
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