Native Californian Rick Frystak has performed with various ensembles in
and around Los Angeles for over 40 years, involving himself in the most
wide variety of musics possible. Including Southbound Road, Moonfleet,
David Balakrishnan, Hosea, Iggy Pop, Ray Manzerek, SAWS, Rick Potts,
Bruce Fowler and the Avitron Ensemble, which was the opportunity to
incorporate aircraft parts and manufacturing machinery into
improvisational pieces with electronics and percussion.
Performing with the InTone group in the 80's fused all these sounds
with group instrumental improvisation and video composition. The 90's
brought a CD collaboration with shakuhachi player Ron Burger, and
Rick's solo record Voci on his own InTone Music label. Since then, his
writing and playing has centered around harmonic composition, group
electro/acoustic improv and computer music, never abandoning the
Cage-ean philosophy that "...all sounds are music".
Rick has also been active in the film industry, with composing and
music production and performance, consulting and music supervision, as
well as licensing his own music to feature films.