{"id":2869,"date":"2024-04-16T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/artiste\/colin-frank\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T18:50:50","slug":"colin-frank","status":"publish","type":"standish_artistes","link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/artist\/colin-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colin Frank<\/strong> experiments with percussion, improvisation, live-electronics, video, sculpture, and theatre; investigating excess, bodily extremes, unpredictable instruments, and rich raw noises. His practice is fluid since it continually reshapes responsively to the materials, objects, environments and circumstances he encounters. This was central to his PhD research at the University of Huddersfield, which investigated how unconventional instruments and objects act and influence his creative process. As a composer-performer, improviser and installation artist, Colin values collaborating on projects which challenge him to learn new skills and test out conceptual ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Colin is a founding member of the composer-performer groups Brutalust and Drift Ensemble. In these groups, he has combined notation with improvisation to explore intra-ensemble relationships and instrument agency. With these ensembles he has performed at hcmf\/\/, Sounds Like THIS, and at the University of Hull\u2019s CLAC series, with a recent CD release on Verz and a forthcoming one on Crow Verses Crow. His compositions have notably been performed by International Contemporary Ensemble, TAK, AndPlay, Red Note, and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has performed solo and in ensembles at the CTM festival, the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse f\u00fcr Neue Musik, Electric Springs, SoundThought, Beast Feast, and PAS Quebec Days, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Colin recently received the Hildegard Westerkamp award from Jeu de Temps \/ Time to Play for a track from his album of site-specific performances, <em>Sounding the Weight of an Object<\/em>, that was released on Impulsive Habitat. Colin\u2019s installations often involve audience interactivity and have been exhibited at Salem Art Works, Dai Hall, and Analix Forever. Recently he modified an upright piano with polystyrene and sound-responsive LEDs for the Leeds Piano Competition\u2019s public piano trail. He studied performance and composition at McGill University and sound at the Institute of Sonology. He has taught improvisation at the Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Festival and experimental music at the University of Huddersfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Frank experiments with percussion, improvisation, live-electronics, video, sculpture, and theatre; investigating excess, bodily extremes, unpredictable instruments, and rich raw noises. His practice is fluid since it continually reshapes responsively to the materials, objects, environments and circumstances he encounters. This was central to his PhD research at the University of Huddersfield, which investigated how unconventional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"class_list":["post-2869","standish_artistes","type-standish_artistes","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"jfares","author_link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/author\/jfares\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standish_artistes\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standish_artistes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/standish_artistes"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}