Heather is engaged with numerous musical and creative projects. Please read more about the diverse things she does below...
ARTS IN HEALTH AT FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE
Sound for Relaxation and Wellbeing
Heather Frahn has worked at Flinders Medical Center in Adelaide in the Arts In Health team.
She takes to patients on hospital wards gentle music with string instruments, her beautiful voice and Singing Bowls to bring relaxation and well being.
The ancient and pure sounds from the Chinese Chau Gong and Singing Bowls in particular, allow a gentle nurturing of the body, a calming of the mind and rejuvination of the spirit.
The patients and also the staff at Flinders Medical Centre have loved Heather's presence and sound relaxation, boasting they have a reflective experience and feel much better after spending even 10 minutes with Heather's healing sounds.
If you would like to organise a Sound for Relaxation and Wellbeing session with Heather please contact her.
The Percussion House team is comprised of local musicians with expertise in performance, facilitating workshops and embracing a community cultural development ethic. Residing within the walls of The Percussion House lives a variety of instruments that We bring to You!
The Percussion House hosts a variety of rhythmic traditions. African rhythms are taught on djembe, dun-dun, kpanlogo & small hand instruments, shakers & claves. Latin rhythms are taught on conga drums. Workshops are open to anyone and everyone –regardless of experience.
How You Can Be Involved!
The Percussion House can be home for a day, an hour or a 6-week series of workshops.
A group workshop can involve up to 30 participants, unlimited spectators and will run for 60 – 90 minutes. A short performance is followed by hands on group participation using 30 instruments.
Explanation on the history of the rhythms, the making of the drums and the techniques employed in production & performance; provides an overall educational experience with a valuable cultural perspective. Musical skills are imparted and developed. Most of all it is a bunch of fun!!
Further a field
For a more comprehensive curriculum, an ongoing workshop series can be arranged. During a workshop series, several African and Latin rhythms are introduced and developed, providing the participants an opportunity to embrace their internal rhythm and evolve their musicality.
Over a minimum of 6 sessions, students will prepare for their own group performance, with the final session opening up to invite an audience.
The Harmonic Project is an ambient live music experience which inspires a very deep listening. Giving birth to The Harmonic Project is Adelaide based musician Heather Frahn along with guest musician Michael Farrell. The instruments featured are Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, Chinese chao gong, Thai Lotus Flower gong, Soul Orb melodic steel drums, djembe drum, bamboo and ocarina flutes, and various vocal singing techniques including haunting harmonic singing, Sanskrit mantra chanting and soulful improvised melodies. Together Heather and Michael present a multi layered, yet simple sonic sound scape which seamlessly ebbs and flows as The Harmonic Project.
The Harmonic Project invites you to come in... take off your shoes... sit or lay down on comfy cushions... and just... Be.
A mesmerising and truly unique live musical experience which can touch the listener in a profound way bringing a sense of being weightless, restful, silent and with hightened awareness.
To sing together
strengthens community
through artistic expression.
2005 saw an exciting initiative by residents of Port Adelaide to start a community choir. As a pilot project, to get an indication of the level of community support for such a venture, 10 workshops were offered. From the success of these initial workshops, the choir has sustained a regular group of 20-30 participants each week from 2006 to current.
From that beginning Vitalstatistix Theatre Company presented four terms of weekly workshops annually, with onsite child-care. Tutors vary throughout the year depending on availability, and are drawn from a pool of local singer/songwriters, including Heather Frahn, Charlotte Mudge, Rosalind Aylemore, Maude Davey, and Kerry Reid. As well, artists working with Vitalstatistix on theatre shows were invited to take sessions when they were in town. For example, in 2006 the Choir worked with Lou Bennett, a member of the acclaimed singing group Tiddas, learning a song in the language of the Yorta Yorta people (around the Murray River near Echuca).
Video below: Heather Frahn's accapella-choir arrangement of John Lennon's 'Imagine' song, performed by the "Born On Monday" choir in Adelaide, Australia.
In 2006 Born On Monday (the then named Port Adelaide Community Choir) started performing in public. Since then the choir has appeared with The Trade Union Choir, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, and Women With Latitude. Event highlights include performances at the Semaphore Fair Day, The Wheatsheaf Hotel and the 2006 Feast Festival, as well as the Vitalstatistix Theatre Company productions ‘Acts of Sedition and Love’, and ‘Second To None’ (a large-scale project for the 2007 Port Festival co-produced by Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts). The choir also presents regular end-of-term concerts for family, friends, and the wider public. Responses to the performances have been overwhelmingly positive, the enjoyment and energy with which the choir performs is very appealing.
Born On Monday aims to keep the choir accessible to participants from a wide reaching demographic. Thus a broad and diverse group can participate in the arts and cultural sector through this affordable and reachable activity. Membership is open to anyone who is interested, regardless of musical experience and people are welcome to come along at anytime during the year.
Born On Monday rehearse Monday nights
6pm-8pm
At the Waterside Hall, 11 Nile Street Port Adelaide, Australia
$8 per session
To register call Ella on 0422 184 808 or email ella.pakpoy (at) gmail.com
Come sit back and relax to worldy ambient music from two of Adelaide's finest female musicians. Featuring Heather Frahn playing an array of string instruments and Marie-Therese McInerney playing a family of drums and percussion, their improvised performances provide a rich sonic backdrop for your ears!
Perfect ambient music for social gatherings, cafes, restaurants and cultural events!
Contact Heather to book a duo performance at your event!
Heather is dedicated to searching for new sounds that are distinctive and unique. Apart from having a musical instrument collection from around the world, many of which she plays, Heather also developed a brand new musical instrument the ‘Steel Drum Harp' with fellow musician and friend Todd Telford.
The Steel Drum Harp is a unique "one off" instrument combining different instrument elements into the one instrument. Todd Telford built the Steel Drum Harp from a 44 gallon steel drum, harp strings and tibetan prayer bowls. It is playable with various mallets and sticks, plucked with the fingers and bowed with a cello bow. The notes range from very deep to very high, resonating long and short. Heather uses the Steel Drum Harp with theatre and performance art pieces, bringing a very unique sound to the musical score.
Heather has recorded an ambient CD titled "Harmonic Rainbow" which etherial qualities create a beautiful bed of layers and sounds.
As it is a very ambient and etherial CD it's recommended listening for relaxation, massage, meditation, yoga, reiki healing, sleeping. (2008)
Contact Heather to buy a copy of Harmonic Rainbow for $20 AU + postage to anywhere in your world. Sorry this CD is not available for purchase via credit card online.
Listen to Harmonic Rainbow audio samples below:
1. root listen
2. sacral
3. solar plexus listen 4. heart listen 5. throat
6. third eye
7. crown
“Sing Out! Songwriting Project” originally developed by Heather Frahn and social worker Laura Bahnisch in an endeavor to create a live music event with a community development twist!
Connecting people through song and performance, “Sing Out!” explores the lives and stories of seven people from the GLBTIQ community with culturally diverse and interesting backgrounds. Each life story is presented and performed by some of Adelaide's finest songwriter-musicians through a collaborative and creative process.
This music event brings reflection, inspiration, laughter and tears through different human perspectives on life!
Heather started the Conscious Music Movement network to help promote and connect other singers, songwriters, musicians and sound healers who's creative motivation is to give positively and wholesomely to people through the sharing of music. Over the years Heather has met many a musician who has this same motivation and I wanted to create a platform for these artists (and music fan's alike!) to connect and share ideas, lyrics, music and thoughts. There is power in individuals forming together as one to support each other and the CMM itself.
Conscious Songs for the people, the earth and the spirit...
How many times has a song changed you? How many times have we put on a favourite cd and instantly it altered our mood, brought clarity, cleared the energetic vibes in the room, made us cry, made us burst into song?
As pure vibrations, music has always been, and always will be a powerful source of energy, but how is music adapting to the world we live in today? How can the humble song provide something good for the human spirit in these times? I believe the answer lies in the other half of a song… the lyrics, and the intention in which this music is given to an audience.
Heather Frahn has worked at Flinders Medical Center in Adelaide in the Arts In Health team.
The Percussion House team is comprised of local musicians with expertise in performance, facilitating workshops and embracing a community cultural development ethic. Residing within the walls of The Percussion House lives a variety of instruments that We bring to You! 
Further a field 
The Harmonic Project is an ambient live music experience which inspires a very deep listening. Giving birth to The Harmonic Project is Adelaide based musician Heather Frahn along with guest musician Michael Farrell. The instruments featured are Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, Chinese chao gong, Thai Lotus Flower gong, Soul Orb melodic steel drums, djembe drum, bamboo and ocarina flutes, and various vocal singing techniques including haunting harmonic singing, Sanskrit mantra chanting and soulful improvised melodies. Together Heather and Michael present a multi layered, yet simple sonic sound scape which seamlessly ebbs and flows as The Harmonic Project. 
Heather is dedicated to searching for new sounds that are distinctive and unique. Apart from having a musical instrument collection from around the world, many of which she plays, Heather also developed a brand new musical instrument the ‘Steel Drum Harp' with fellow musician and friend Todd Telford. 
Listen to Harmonic Rainbow audio samples below:
“Sing Out! Songwriting Project” originally developed by Heather Frahn and social worker Laura Bahnisch in an endeavor to create a live music event with a community development twist! 
