Mike Frengel was born in Mountain View, California in 1972. After enjoying a healthy music career as guitarist and songwriter around the San Francisco Bay Area, Mike has since focused his musical efforts towards contemporary composition and performance. Mike graduated with a B.A. in electroacoustic music from San Jose State University in 1995, where he studied electronic music composition with Allen Strange. He spent another three years in the San Francisco Bay Area working at Apple Computers Inc. as well as remaining affiliated with the C.R.E.A.M. Studios at SJSU as a Research Scientist. Mike completed his M.A. in electroacoustic music composition at the Bregman Studios at Dartmouth College in 1999, where he studied with Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky, and Christian Wolff. He completed his Ph.D. at City University, London, where he studied composition with Denis Smalley. Mike was a prize winner in the 2000 Luigi Russolo Composition Competition. His works have been included on the Sonic Circuits VII, ICMC'95, CDCM Vol.26 and 2000 Luigi Russolo compact discs and have been performed at various music events around the world, as well as being broadcast over American, Canadian, French, and Slovak radio and the World Wide Web. He currently serves on the Board of the Electronic Arts Focus in London.