Stefan Fraunberger is a composer and artist working across music, performance, and science. His practice draws on liminality through sonic states of transition within material compositions.
Engaging with modified instruments and recycled sonic structures such as transformed church organs, Fraunberger creates works that connect the acoustic and the synthetic, the historical and the speculative. His work relates different technologies and scientific approaches to generate new perspectives beyond counterpoint.
He embraces the ominous and the confusing, reflecting on contemporary states of alienation while opening space for future-oriented forms of expression.
His work was commissioned, performed and exhibited internationally including CTM Festival, Berlin / Grand Palais du Paris / Meakusma Festival, Eupen / Musikprotokoll, Graz / Berghain, Berlin / Museum of Natural History, Vienna / Outernational Days, Bucharest / Concert hall, Stavanger / Donaufestival, Krems / Irtijal Festival, Beirut / Radical Tehran, Teheran / Baba Yaga's Hut, Round Chapel, London / Bouquet Stage, Kyiv / Aggregate, Auenkirche, Berlin / Seanaps Festival, Leipzig / Festival Imago Dei, Krems / Workspace Brussels, Les Brigittines / trans-european Plattform Shape 2017 / ...
Fraunberger's music and art has been described as „eschewing the pomp of sacred music for the fragile drone of an organic death knell“ (The Wire Magazine), „there’s an uncanny beauty both to Fraunberger’s seemingly absurd actions & to the, frankly, amazing results" (4against5)" and „between melodies and noise washes, that never stop being engaging and provocative" (Quietus), ...
Sonic Eschtologies (the Attic/english), 2026
RAI Radiofeature (german), 2025
Revue&Corrigée(french), March 2023
Meloport (ukrainian/english), August 2020
Note (japanese), March 2020
The Attic, August 2017
CTM Magazine, February 2017
Shape, January 2017
TheWire Portrait, Oktober 2016
Mica (german), April 2016