Bang on a Can

Dominic Frasca is a recent winner of Guitar Player's Guitar Hero competition and Entertainment Weekly has called him "Eddie Van Halen for eggheads." His most recent release on Cantaloupe Music, “Deviations,” was named one of the top classical music albums of the year by The New York Times. Additionally, the YouTube video of one of his performances has received over 1 million hits. Frasca tweaks textures from an arsenal of guitars self-mutated to include nylon and steel strings, as well as individual pick-ups wired through his laptop. Whether drilling holes in the fretboard to mount peg-like mini-capos or affixing layers of cardboard to fill rhythms on, Frasca adapts his 6, 8, and 10-string guitars to any piece of music. Frasca also arranged Steve Reich's "Violin Phase" for electric guitar which Reich heard and subsequently featured the guitarist on his 2001 Nonesuch Records album, “Triple Quartet.”