Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser whose instrumentarium
includes glass objects, electronics, and instruments of his own design. His array of
activities includes collaborations with the Balinese composer Dewa Berata on music
for a large-scale shadowplay, with operatic tenor John Duykers on unique
music/theater events, with the Tibetan songwriter Techung, with whom he has toured
throughout India, and has worked closely with composers John Cage, Morton Subotnick,
Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney and Jon Hassell. He was a founding member of The
Glass Orchestra, the internationally renowned ensemble featuring all glass
instruments (1977-86), and the sound-sculpture band Möbius Operandi (1990-95) ) and
has performed as a keyboardist with the Paul Dresher Ensemble (1988-95) and the
Philip Glass Ensemble (1992).
