Colin Frank

Dr. Colin Frank is a percussionist, composer, field recordist, and installation artist whose work explores found objects, machine noise, site-specific performance, and audience interactivity. His PhD, ‘Making With Agential Objects: An autoethnographic account of fluidity in artistic practice’, examined how unconventional instruments shape creativity. He has performed notably at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, CTM Festival, the Darmstadt course for new music, Beast Feast, and the Percussive Arts Society Quebec Days. His compositions have been presented by ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, TAK, and AndPlay. He has exhibited installations at New Adventures in Sound Art, Le Vivier festival, Analix Forever and Salem Art Works. His performative field recording Forays into Expansive Terrains won him the Hildegard Westerkamp Award for sound composition. He teaches percussion at Leeds Conservatoire, and he is currently based in Huddersfield in the UK.