Frances White composes instrumental and electronic music. She studied with Lawrence Moss, Charles Dodge, and Paul Lansky. She has received honors, awards, and commissions from organizations such as Prix Ars Electronica, the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, the International Computer Music Association, Hungarian Radio, ASCAP, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Other Minds Festival, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Ms. White's music can be heard on CD on the Wergo, Centaur, Nonsequitur, One World, and Harmonia Mundi labels.
Ms. White studies shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and finds that the traditional music of this instrument informs and influences her work as a composer. Much of Ms. White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently feature natural sounds recorded around where she lives, in central New Jersey.