HEATHER FRASCH is a sound artist whose work explores the intersection of acoustic & electroacoustic composition, improvisation, interactive performance, new media theory and sound installations. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley where she studied composition with Franck Bedrossian, and interactive electronic music at CNMAT with Edmund Campion & David Wessel. Her music has been performed at festivals and concerts worldwide such as: NIME (London), FRUM (Iceland), Atlas Academy (Amsterdam), ICMC (Huddersfield), NYCEMF (New York), SICMF (Korea), Moscow Autumn Festival, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, among others. Honors include the George Ladd Prix de Paris in Composition, Finalist for the 2012 International Sergei Slonimsky Composition Competition, and the Nicol DeLorernzo Prize in Composition, 2010 and 2008.