“Hauntingly beautiful and challengingly imaginative work. 

A subtle master”.

-Robert Winson

Andrew Franck (born Andreas Franck in the United States) is a composer, artist, philosopher and author.

Franck began his performance career in the mid 1970s in New York City and Stuttgart, Germany. He currently lives and works in upstate New York.

Music studies with Manfred D'Elia, Gates Wray, Elias Tanenbaum and Philip Corner. Philosophical studies with Reiner Schurmann, Veronique Foti, Quentin Lauer, Ronald Brady and Manfred Riedel. In collaboration or corroboration with: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Buckminster Fuller, Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Otto Wulff, Hagen Biesantz, Klaus Wilde, Robert Sardello and Alfred Tomatis.

As a composer and sound designer, Franck has written over two hundred works for chamber ensembles, film, dance and electronics. Recordings include "One Breath Bardo", "Dances and Emanations", “Music from Our Lady of Perpetual Motion”, "Maps for Dreaming", "Surfacing" and “By Chance And Appointment”.  His soundtracks are featured in works for dance, film and performance art along with sound effects contributions lent to several avant-pop groups and ambient environments. His "Variations On A Theme By Conlon Nancarrow" was featured in Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo’s production of Cross Currents.  His current recording, "Aria", features the French singer Cecile Allemand along with computer generated accompaniment.

As an artist, Franck works with monoprint, encaustics and oil with carbon on paper. His catalog of works contains over three hundred pieces primarily focusing on themes of plant life and alchemy. His series of thirty-three collage compilations entitled "The Bud and Ray Art Books" have been presented in numerous salon settings while his larger works have been shown at Paralux in New York City, Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie N.Y. and Jio in Montreal.

Franck is the author of numerous works including "The Transparent Bride", "Mantras and Musical Solutions". "Excoriated Light and The Holy Bodies Circuit", "Circulation As Imagination", "The Alchemical Circus", "Dreaming The Luminous Frontier", "A Book of Dances", "The Painted Trout" and "Butohmania".

His current sound and visual montage performances entitled "Remembering The Present Tense" employs simultaneous multimedia events including projections of alchemical psychoemblemata, recorded voices, live music and narration.