Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. Fred Frith developimproviseintuition Change image and share on social
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. Fred Frith ideasongsound Change image and share on social
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. Fred Frith improvisekindlanguage Change image and share on social
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. Fred Frith dialoguediscoverlearn share on social
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. Fred Frith agobandcouple Change image and share on social
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. Fred Frith abilityclearcomponent Change image and share on social
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. Fred Frith candycontextenjoy share on social
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. Fred Frith changefriendperception Change image and share on social
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. Fred Frith businessgravitypart Change image and share on social
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. Fred Frith backbusinessmancatalogue share on social
