Music

Frank's music encompasses experimental compositions, original songs and works created for theatre, film and live performance.

Through Dialectic Art and RADE (Research, Arts, Dialectic Experiences), he also explores relationships between music, painting, perception and personal experience.

Dialectic Abstract Music — Voice

These experimental vocal compositions explore contrasting emotions through dissonant melodies and vowel sounds rather than conventional lyrics.

By treating the human voice as an expressive instrument, Frank explores relationships between sound, emotion and perception through his Dialectic Art approach.

Dialectic Abstract Classical Music

Frank composed this collection of experimental classical music for a proposed Visual Art Opera, developing the compositions in connection with a photograph he had taken.

The project explores how musical and visual forms can express related ideas through different artistic mediums.

Dialectic Abstract Music

This collection of experimental compositions explores the relationships between sound, emotion and artistic expression through Frank's approach to Dialectic Art.

Moving beyond conventional musical structures, the works investigate how contrasting sounds, rhythms and musical ideas can interact, creating unexpected relationships and new possibilities for interpretation.

Sita: Uncut

Sita: Uncut brings together original songs Frank has written for musicals, screenplays and other stage productions.

He has also created a series of paintings inspired by these compositions. Some reflect the emotions expressed in the songs, while others deliberately contrast with them, exploring the relationships between music, emotion and visual expression.

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue emerged from Frank's work with Best Kept Secret, following the band's success in the Victorian heats of triple j's 1989 Battle of the Bands competition. The band went on to represent Victoria at the national finals in Sydney.

The competition led to a music publishing opportunity and the recording of Out of the Blue, reflecting Frank's early work as a songwriter and recording artist.