Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 February 1949
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I'm usually pretty careful about that kind of thing, but sometimes the music just pushes me into a direction that I can't really avoid following.
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It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a C.D. and put it out as a soundtrack.
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All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal.
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There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
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I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
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I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
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We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
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Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.
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Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.