Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 February 1949
records way imagine
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
football laughing-so-hard balls
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.
strive ifs i-can
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
thinking trios quartets
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
kids thinking wells
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
memories writing association
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
intuition instinct developing
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
thinking influence reconstruction
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
guitar notes classical-guitar
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
thinking musical different
...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!
fall mean home
If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.
views interesting perspective
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.
english-composer folk gravity kinds music quite taken time
All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal.
avoid careful direction english-composer music pushes
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.