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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. "

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" 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. "

Fred Frith

Language

Learning

Speak

" If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. "

" Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well. "

Fred Frith

Well

Wind

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

Writing

Gravity

" 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. "

" I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words. "

" And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. "

" 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. "

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

Fred Frith

Music

Lot

" 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. "

Fred Frith

Working

I Can

" 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. "

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

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