Frank Pahl

Frank Pahl is a Michigan-based musician/composer, working in several styles including "toy pop", or music made with toys. He works primarily in Wyandotte and Ann Arbor, Michigan, but has exhibited his work in Canada, Europe and Japan, as well as the United States.

Pahl has worked in several groups, including Only a Mother, Sublime Wedge, Immigrant Suns and currently in Scavenger Quartet, a freeform musical group, and Little Bang Theory, a "toy" music trio. Frank has worked with other avant-garde musicians like Eugene Chadbourne and Fred Frith. He frequently collaborates with Professors Terry Saris and Peter Sparling Frank has built and exhibited a lot of "automatic instruments"

Pahl was awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree in Art and Design from the University of Michigan Pahl was awarded the Kresge Art Fellowship in 2010.

Born February 11, 1958, in Trenton, MI, and played euphonium in high school. Pahl grew up in Wyandotte and got turned onto music listening to FM radio in the 70s.

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