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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.
Fred Frith
Music
Play
Songs
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
Fred Frith
Music
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.
Fred Frith
Life
Feeling
Perspective
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
Ability
Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
Fred Frith
Wind
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
Music
Film
Logic
Machine
Sound
Writing