Music & Media

engage

old new blueps
smatterings of a life lived celestial-bodily stretched across the multiverse

released 4 March 2022 – available on Bandcamp

1. a sad sitcom from somewhere 01:48
2. i run on wizard time 02:43
3. where the air tastes of electricity 04:24
4. toes listening to mossy sand 07:07
5. cry with me, clumsy dancer 03:56
6. a flock of dust 07:38
7. next time on scoutro 08:18
8. roll credits sad sitcomber 06:20

50% of proceeds are sent to an ever changing smattering of queer-focused & centered work/groups/community projects/organizations & mutual aid initiatives.
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composition & performance – bluflumingo
mixing & mastering – Louise Fristensky

Album Art: Louise Fristensky

pueblo glórtha
pueblo glórtha - a title drawn from mixed language wordplay that loosely translates to “sound town” or “people sound” - captures these four sympathetic collaborators in the thick of improvisational sonic world-building. Tonne’s non-conventional vocalizations zoom in and out of focus, often meshing with Fristensky’s objects and breath. When paired with the creaking, mechanical instrumentation of Montiel and Espinel, they create a uniquely atmospheric full group sound that displays a wide dynamic range.

While this particular four-piece collaboration may have been short-lived, pueblo glórtha captures that seemingly rare ‘lightning in a bottle’ improv session that is truly transportive, a recording that begs to be revisited often.
released 30 November 2021 – available on Bandcamp

1. near a third of 23:00. single ~ early release
2. dale duro
3. la dron

Liz Tonne - voice
Louise Fristensky - voice, kazoo, flute, bells, objects
Ernesto Montiel - objects on guitar
Miguel Espinel - percussion, cymbals, objects, autoharp, live processing

Recorded by Justin Lemons at Infinite Ohm Studio in Denton, Texas on May 19, 2019
Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Album Art:
Paintings by Bernardo Bermudez // Images edited by Ginger Berry and Juan Pablo Garza
(from the book BAB by Anna Maria Ferris, Caracas, 1998)
Layout by Matt Irwin and Ernesto Montiel

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Monte Espina + Louise Fristensky
Improvisation electroacoustic free improvisation
Live Performance at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

Tuesday, 26 Oct 2021

to love a mountain made of walls
Variable-rate generative audio/visual installation
Premiered in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT)

Friday, 05 Nov 2021

singing underwater
Solo Vocalist w/ optional amplification
performed by the composer

Sunday 12 July 2020

Singing Bones of Piano Fall
Collaborative ambisonic installation by Louise Fristensky & Christopher Poovey
Premiered in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT)

Monday, Feb 17 2020

singing underwater
Solo Vocalist w/ optional amplification
Premiered by the composer

Tuesday, 5 Nov 2019

Bloodletting is an installation combining video, sound, text, and live performance to explore the sense of self in the internet age as both physical and mental objects. :: In our pursuit of this topic we chose to explore the act of losing oneself in the technological environment, of specifically losing individuality of identity. Each performer brought texts relating to the physical body, self perception, societal perception, and the self within the body to create a selection of texts which the computer uses to create composite texts which are spoken by the computerized voice and simultaneously displayed on the monitors adjacent to the performers. The text’s content and execution serve to shape the performance both through performer reaction and interpretation, and by serving as the trigger for other events within the technological aspect of the performance

Elaine diFalco, Concept, Video, Text, Performer (Accordion) // Louise Fristensky, Concept, Video Granulator, Text, Sound Design Assistance, Technology Coordination Assistance, Performer (Voice) // Joshua Lambert, Concept, Text, Performer (Contrabass) // Christopher Poovey, Concept, Sound Design, Technology Coordination (iScore), Text, Performer (Keyboard)

Monday 17 April 2017 at 5 & 8 pm

The Audacity
Flute, Violin, Bass Clarinet, 2 Percussionists, Live & Fixed Electronics
Premiered by Elizabeth Milligan (fl), Sarah Elizabeth Compton (v), David Floyd (b. cl), Katie Eikam (perc), & Kevin Zetina (perc). Coached by Ashley Walters, and conducted by Christopher Adler.
Friday, 17 June, 2016

New Thing
Fixed Electronics
In collaboration with Dancer/Choreographer Nicole Cameli

Thursday, 5 Nov, 2015

The head called to the body
Glass Armonica, Mixed Percussion
Premiered by Chui Ling Tan (glass armonica, percussion) and Greg Riss (percussion)

Sunday, 3 May, 2015