Seeking to perfect his art, Frasca had an extensive practice routine, often spending up to 14 hours a day playing. While it initially added to his abilities, the rigorousness took its toll; Frasca developed focal dystonia—the loss of motor control in his fingers.
He spent two years seeking treatment for the condition, unable to play at all. Frasca turned to weight training as a source of help. By keeping a balance between his practice and working out, he regained full use of his hands in He is probably best known for his customized ten-string guitar, which allows him to create a unique, layered-sound normally only accomplishable using multiple instruments or post-recording techniques such as overdubbing. Frasca's technique incorporates classical guitar technique in the right hand as well as rock techniques such as tapping, hammer-ons, and pull-offs in the left hand.
But Frasca has also expanded beyond these traditional techniques by inventing and creating other techniques to meet specific needs or problems presented by a specific composition. These include the use of a prepared guitar, with single string "mini-capos", the addition of pads on the body of the guitar which Frasca uses for a myriad of percussion sounds and timbres , and attached sticks and levers on the body of the guitar, used to create percussive sounds.
I want people to know who I am and I want to know who my audience is- the most fundamental way that people communicate is by discovery. He is currently signed with Canataloupe Music and has released two albums, entitled Deviations, and Forced Entry. In , Frasca opened a small, high-tech, surround-sound nightclub in New York City named The Monkey, which he has described as "a space that is all about the music, the sound and the visuals, not about selling drinks.
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Harry Styles. Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes, and Mellits' music is a brutal parent. Since Frankensteining half of an electric guitar neck frets filed off to a six-string acoustic, Frasca has been ready. Whether drilling holes in the fretboard to mount peg-like mini-capos or affixing layers of cardboard to fill rhythms on, Frasca is willing to adapt his 6, 8, and string guitars to any piece of music.
It also lends Frasca a theatricality he's been happy to embrace -- anything to shake off the staid traditions of the concert hall. One notable performance at Oberlin College in the mids included suitably adult background imagery while -- inspired by the same gruesome story which spawned the Coen brothers' Fargo -- Frasca ran a stunt guitar through a wood chipper.
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