Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 February 1949
song play different
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.
couple english-composer felt gigs played time weeks
We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
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.
english-composer exactly stick struck
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.
vocabulary body doe
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
years firsts musician
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.
awful resources concerts
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
song writing ideas
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
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.