heather b. frasch

Flickering: for 2 object performers, violin, guitar & live electronics [20 minutes]

Composition, instrument design and fabrication, and live-electronics programming: Heather Frasch

My solo practice as a performer-composer combines DIY kinetic sound objects with synthesizers and real-time processing. Flickering is the first in a series of works that expands this practice into notated chamber music. Developed through a series of workshops with guitarist Fredrik Rasten and violinist Biliana Voutchkova, the composition explores delicate performance techniques and tuning systems that allow acoustic instruments, kinetic objects, and electronics to blend and reshape one another.

Premiere at KM28, Berlin, November 2024

Performed by: Heather Frasch (objects & electronics), Andrea Neumann (objects), Grégoire Simon (violin) & Fredrik Rasten (guitar)

Funded by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin. Score available at NB Publisher