“Truly awful — deliciously so … I love it.”
-Peter Kirn, Create Digital Music
Paul Fraser is a composer, sound designer, performer and curator based in Los Angeles. His work ranges from composition and sound design for animation to site-specific museum installations and performances to writing music for concert halls and computer speakers.
His music and sound design tends to be influenced by lo-fi electronic sensibilities, rhythmic complexity as well as general timbre experimentation. Much of his recent work focuses on the use of communities of collaborators and sound sources to make sound art, which often yields more interesting and surprising outcomes.
He has scored and sound designed films (animation and live action) that have appeared in numerous festivals around the world, including the Slamdance Film Festival, the London International Animation Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Los Angeles Animation Festival and the Art Monastery Short Film Festival in Italy.
In addition to film/animation work, Fraser has written for orchestra, choir, small ensembles, bands (both pop and experimental), dance and theater. His music has been performed and featured at the Getty Center (LA), the New York City Electroacoustic Festival, REDCAT Winter Studio (LA), Machine Project (LA), the New Children’s Museum (San Diego), the S.E.M. Ensemble Workshop (New York City), The Hammer Museum (UCLA), UC San Diego’s Spring Festival and the St. Magnus Festival (Scotland).
As a curator, Fraser recently programmed events for Machine Project, The Dogstar Orchestra, the Getty Center and the New Children’s Museum.
He received an MFA in Composition at CalArts in May 2011.
Contact: paulfrasermusic@gmail.com