Heather Frasch

HEATHER FRASCH, is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, performer/composer, and creator of interactive sound installations and digital instruments. Through the creation of complex timbres, the usage of unstable notation systems, and electronics her work explores notions of fragility and stillness within an intermedia sonic arts practice. Influenced by the dis-embodiment of acousmatic music practices, she investigates the re-embodiment of sound and the intimacy between humans and their technological objects.

She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and further degrees from IRCAM, CNR de Lyon, and Temple University. Her work has been supported by: Musikfonds e. V., Initiative Neue Musik Berlin and Kulturförderung des Goethe-Instituts. She was Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition and Computer Technologies at The University of Virginia (2018-2020). She is Associate Professor  of Music Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (Fall 2021).