Guest Recital: Heather Frasch and Seth Cluett

Heather Frasch is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, improviser, performer-composer (flute, laptop/electronics & sonic creations), collaborator and creator of interactive sound installations and DIY instruments. Her work brings together American experimentalism with French acousmatic practices, drawing on influences from new media theory. She utilizes technology to examine notions of stillness and fragility with a current focus on: real-time interactive performance, embodiment theory, and unstable systems. By customizing a performance each set up for a new work (from handmade instruments to self programmed digital interfaces ) unexplored connections among sound production, sound product and performer can be investigated. Frasch holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is Professor of Music Technologies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Seth Cluett is a composer, artist, and performer whose quiet, patient music explores the territory between the senses, with a compelling attention to perception. His work is driven by themes of ecological collapse and resilience, often expressed through materials found in nature. Cluett’s “subtle…seductive, immersive” (Artforum) work has been characterized as “rigorously focused and full of detail” (e/i) and “dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature” (The Wire). His work has been presented internationally at venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA/PS1, CONTEXT Art Miami, GRM, and the Holland Festival. After 8 years at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University, this fall Cluett joined the faculty of Contemporary Creative Practice in the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. Program: Textural Study No. 10 for solo performer-composer with self-built kinetic sound sculptures, synthesizer, and real-time electronics Duo with Heather Frasch and Seth Cluett Cost: Free and open to the public, no tickets required.