Michael Frengel

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Mike Frengel was born in Mountain View, California in 1972. After enjoying a healthy music career around the San Francisco Bay Area, Mike has since focused all of his musical efforts towards contemporary composition. Mike graduated with a B.A. degree in Electro-Acoustic Music from San Jose State University in 1995, where he studied electronic music composition with Allen Strange. He spent another two years in the Bay Area working at Apple Computers as a sound specialist as well as remaining affiliated with the C.R.E.A.M. Studios at SJSU as a Research Scientist. Mike is now completing graduate studies at the Bregman Studios at Dartmouth College, where he is working with Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky, and Christian Wolff. Mike's compositions have been performed at various music events around the world, as well as being broadcast over American, Canadian, French, and Slovak radio and the World Wide Web. He served on the selection committee for SEAMUS99 and his compositions have been included on the ICMC'95 and CDCM Vol.26 compact discs.

Works

• Tin Strings (1991) for four electric guitars
• The Real Thing (1991) for tape
• Machine (1991) for tape
• Tribal Sound Reproduction (1992) for tape
• The Coffee Kings (1992) for tape
• Waterworks (1993) for tape
• Music At Different Speeds (1994) for two marimbas and two glockenspeil
• Wiring Sequence (1994-95) for three Bb clarinets, two oboes, and "130 in One"
• Three Short Stories (1995-96) for tape
• Rock Music (1996) for tape
• Magnetisms (1997) for guitar and quadraphonic tape
• Variations On An Already Complex Theme No.1 (1997) for tape
• Slow Movement (1997) for piano and electronics
• A Big Entrance for Big T (1998) for feedback guitar, trombone, trumpet, and oboe
• Campfire Music (1998) a collection of improvisatory pieces
• For Anne (1998) for tape
• Growth/Separation (1998) for tape
• Piano Miniatures (1998) a collection of piano etudes
• Tempi Studies (1998)
• Four Strings (1998) for 4 one-string guitars
• Woods, Metals, Skins (1998) for percussion trio
• Jump Start My Heart (1998) for piano (1 or 2 players)
• Twinkle Twinkle Rockstar (1998) for 2 electric guitars

Performances

• SJSU Student Composer's Concert (1992)
• SJSU Student Composer's Concert (1994)
• ArtNet M-BONE Broadcast (1995)
• SEAMUS@Ithaca'95
• Senior Recital at SJSU (1996)
• DigIt ATM Broadcast (1996)
• Argentina Concert (1996)
• Apartment Music On exhibit throughout the summer of 1996. Nice, France
• ICMC96 Hong Kong On The Edge
• FEM96 (Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music) Slovak Republic
• International Conference on Computer Music and Music Science (1996) Shanghai, P.R. China
• SEAMUS97@Kansas City
• The Sixth Annual Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival - (1997)
• The Bonk Music Festival - (1997) Florida
• ICMC97 Greece
• JukeBox - (1998) France
• ICMC98 Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Way Out Concert of Contemporary Music - (1998) Dartmouth College
• JukeBox2.0 - (1998) France

Publications

• ICMC96 Hong Kong CD On The Edge - No Pestering for tape
• IAMFREE Internet Art Museum (1995-present)
• CDCM Volume 26 - Three Short Stories for tape

1999 Peformances

• The Bonk Music Festival - (1999) Florida
• The New Music Festival - (1999) Dartmouth College
• SEAMUS'99 - San Jose State University