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.

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... view

By: Fred Frith

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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?.. view

By: Fred Frith

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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets... view

By: Fred Frith

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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert... view

By: Fred Frith

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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... view

By: Fred Frith

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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... view

By: Fred Frith

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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... view

By: Fred Frith

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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... view

By: Fred Frith

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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition... view

By: Fred Frith

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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.. view

By: Fred Frith

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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... view

By: Fred Frith

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Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them... view

By: Fred Frith

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