Biography
Among other things, composer, sound sculptor, and systems artist Louise Fristensky [ ˌlʉˈiːz ˌfɹ̞ ɪstʰˈɜˑnscʰi̞ ] (b. 1987) creates works focused along the micro-refractions of reality’s pointillistic network of personally-aggregated and mutually agreed-upon mythologies; the places where the air tastes of electricity.
Current and recent projects include to swim in air: an in-progress modular extractable system of intermedial works connected by a sub/conscious structure of perceptual exploration, and False Landscapes: an evening length experimental video and audio work traveling the beautiful unreality of internal spaces, their intricacies and world-growths, and the self-sustained logic which maintains their construction.
They have collaborated with Christopher Poovey on a jointly-developed ambisonic interactive installation Singing Bones of Piano Fall, with Brietta Greger / Katie Eikam / Jordan Curcuruto on a work for percussion trio Grrrowl for The Contemporary Commissions Project, and with Morgan Horning (soprano), Miguel Espinel (electric guitar), and Ula Rucka (harp) on the creation of A Love Song.
Louise is also interested in exploring textural- and color-connected spaces, pseudo landscapes and implied worlds, and in the creation and curation of shared experiences or transformations. Their generative variable-rate installation to love a mountain made of walls immerses and intentionally edges the audience into realms of overwhelm, discomfort and suffusion, from which the audience is intended & invited to excuse themself as needed. Her auto-performative work Shit Time Machine – first version installed May 2018 :: continuously in development – uses Nostalgites activated within the time machine chamber to transport the participant to the temporal location of their divining. In Shared Waters – installed Dec 2019, a bass transducer is used to vibrate the waters in both a provided conductor bowl and within the submerged hand and wrist of the participant.
Current and recent projects include to swim in air: an in-progress modular extractable system of intermedial works connected by a sub/conscious structure of perceptual exploration, and False Landscapes: an evening length experimental video and audio work traveling the beautiful unreality of internal spaces, their intricacies and world-growths, and the self-sustained logic which maintains their construction.
They have collaborated with Christopher Poovey on a jointly-developed ambisonic interactive installation Singing Bones of Piano Fall, with Brietta Greger / Katie Eikam / Jordan Curcuruto on a work for percussion trio Grrrowl for The Contemporary Commissions Project, and with Morgan Horning (soprano), Miguel Espinel (electric guitar), and Ula Rucka (harp) on the creation of A Love Song.
Louise is also interested in exploring textural- and color-connected spaces, pseudo landscapes and implied worlds, and in the creation and curation of shared experiences or transformations. Their generative variable-rate installation to love a mountain made of walls immerses and intentionally edges the audience into realms of overwhelm, discomfort and suffusion, from which the audience is intended & invited to excuse themself as needed. Her auto-performative work Shit Time Machine – first version installed May 2018 :: continuously in development – uses Nostalgites activated within the time machine chamber to transport the participant to the temporal location of their divining. In Shared Waters – installed Dec 2019, a bass transducer is used to vibrate the waters in both a provided conductor bowl and within the submerged hand and wrist of the participant.
Seeking out waves of timbral connective tissue and contrast clouds to guide both their solo and collaborative treks through sound as an improvisor, multinonstrumentalist, poet, producer, and curator, Louise’s work continues to travel a variety of conceptual models, generally regarding ideas of the un-reality of shared experiences and nostalgia. Their most frequent performance collaborators are Monte Espina (Ernesto Montiel, Miguel Espinel) with whom they toured Denton/Dallas/Austin/Houston TX in the summer of 2019, Daniel Ryan, and Quartet Fandatan (Ernesto Montiel, Miguel Espinel, Andrew Jordan Miller, Karl Roehling), and she has performed with Magic Improv Ensemble, Sarah Ruth,Aaron Gonzalez, Adam Goodwin, Sybil Jay, Rosemary Candelario, Jacob Thiede, and Vic Rawlings.
Louise has also participated in and had their works performed at numerous new music events and festivals including As if radio 2021 in Glasgow, Audio Art Festival 2019 in Krakow, Soundlings Festival 2018 in London, LaTex 2016, FURY: the will to be heard co-hosted by CUSP and Stone Mason Projects, and the nief-norf Summer Festival – both as a fellow (2016) and as the inaugural Composition TA (2017).
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Currently pursuing their PhD in Composition at the University of North Texas, Louise has studied composition with Joseph Klein, with Sungji Hong, Kirsten Broberg, and Andrew May, composition and intermedia with David Stout, acoustic ecology and sound art with Panayiotis Kokoras, creative coding with Stephen Lucas, cybernetics and creative coding/generative graphics with Martin Back, and sculpture with Alicia Eggert. She pursued graduate coursework at Rutgers University and studied with composer Steven Kemper. They hold a B.M. in Music Composition and Theory from New York University where she studied with Youngmi Ha. Through the nief-norf Summer Festival they have studied compositionwith Christopher Adler, Tonia Ko, Christopher Burns, Nina C. Young, Marc Mellits, and have participated in an improvisation workshop with Tim Feeney. Previously, they studied classical voice and flute under Ron Cappon and Soo-Kyung Park, respectively, at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.
MORE Interests!
Louise currently serves as the curator of Second Blue Door – a regular house-show location on the Denton scene. Due to Covid-19, most events have unfortunately been on indefinite hold, but plans are in the works.
They also serve as the Artistic Director of rising ensemble Nu Atmospheres, for whom they are currently developing a modular extractable system of intermedial works connected by a sub/conscious structure of perceptual exploration  photo credit: Christopher Walker
Every Sunday 4-6PM CST on KUZU 92.9FM Denton, TX Louise, along with co-host Christopher Walker, curates and produces Tonotopicalia; a two-hour radio show which luxuriates in the left turn.
Moonlighting as a poet, Louise plays with text as textural landscape and is delighted to be included among the many talented collaborators of Spiderweb Salon. Additionally on the Tonotopicalia weekly posts as well as in other presentation spaces, Louise's love of poetry and the sussing out of the written sound world are liminally present. |
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CV
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A full CV is available for download. Last updated 30 March, 2020
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