Joe Frawley's electro-acoustic Sound Collages are intended to blur the boundary between music and sound art. Using found sounds, field recordings, recontextualized speech, and samples from classical music, the composer has created challenging yet accessible sound compositions with a hypnotic dream-like quality.
Original chamber compositions are layered and juxtaposed with evocative electronic sound samples from a wide variety of sources. Musical episodes merge with bells, birds, wind, and other ambient sounds as ghostly voices rise, fade, and recur according to their own dream logic. The final result is an intangible yet coherent experience of fleeting mental images the composer compares to "a mystical radio station that broadcasts from the subconscious." The artist's compositional aesthetic is complemented by a similar visual concept, which he expresses via photography and found object collages.