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Composer/sound
designer, writer/new media artist. Writings on audio art (with Jay Mandeville)
published in Experimental
Sound and Radio (MIT Press) and Semiotext(e)
Radiotext(e)
New
CD release
Bullfrog
Devildog President (Sparkling
Beatnik 0019) features newEar performing The
Irish Wilderness and Scrat concert version. Other artists:
pianist Harry S. Truman, soprano Patricia Johnson, viola da gambist
Gerald Trimble, performance artist Tony Allard, and Anamnesis, an electroacoustic
ensemble recorded live in London.
Sonic
Force
Reappropriating military technology to
create audio art, Sonic Force celebrates A-10
Warthog attack planes by employing them as Futurist
sound instruments mixed and digitally mapped with human voices and
conventional instruments. Sonic Force is a collaboration between Whiteman
Air Force Base, newEar players, KCUR-FM
and composers Dwight Frizzell and Michael Henry. Read more about Sonic
Force.
Financial
assistance for Sonic Force is provided by the Missouri
Arts Council and newEar supporters like you.
Video
installation, Sunset Event, featured at the Musee d'Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris 12th Bienale. View some of Dwight's early films
at PleaseWatch.com
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Harry's
Shadow: semi-autobiographical film about growing up next to Harry
Truman, screened at the WorldWide Video Festival in Amsterdam (1997),
KCPT-TV and the Kansas City Film Jubilee (2000). The "Center
of the World" sequence from the film's soundtrack broadcast on
NPR's Lost
and Found Sounds.
For
newEar: Building the Earth (after Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
(featured on the Natural Selection
CD); Search for the Particular, commissioned for the opening
of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art, Postmodern Prometheus (after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein),
and Out of Time (with Michael Henry) for soprano Patricia Johnson,
chamber ensemble, video projections and 6-channel sound.
1990s
Radio theater works Contacting the Other and Indeterminate
Moments with John Cage on CD from LodesTone
Media.
1982-current
Founding member of BCR, the Black Crack Revue.
1976
LP Beyond the Black Crack features
music based on the time-shifting effects of black holes, and 27 minutes
of Turtle Music, reissued on CD as Paradigm 06 (England).
Frizzell
is currently an instructor at Kansas City Art Institute's Photo New-Media
Dept. and an associate professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City's
Conservatory of Music.
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