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Improv:21:
Composer/Improviser Fred Frith |
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| Item Type: Video |
Duration: 111 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: ROVA |
Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet introduces an insightful interview of composer/improviser Fred Frith by Derk Richardson, conducted at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco on January 30, 2005. Frith discusses the role of improvisation in his music and the recording techniques he has used in the music studio to capture and manipulate those improvisations. He also describes his use of graphic scores, his work improvising film soundtracks, and the various tricks he has developed to get more classically trained musicians learn how to more freely improvise. In the second half of the programs he takes questions from the audience. |
| Musical Selections: |
Deluge (1974) / Henry Cow -- [unidentified piece from the CD “Dense Band”] (1985) / David Moss -- Prisoners’ Dilemma [excerpt] (2002) / Maybe Monday -- Digital Wildlife [excerpt] (2002) / Maybe Monday -- [unidentified excerpt from the soundtrack of “Middle of the Moment”] / Fred Frith -- Screen [excerpt] / Fred Frith -- Traffic Continues (1996) / Fred Frith -- [unidentified excerpt from the soundtrack of “Rivers and Tides”] / Fred Frith |
| Performers: |
Henry Cow: (Deluge)
John Greaves, bass, (Deluge)
Lindsay Cooper, bassoon, (Deluge)
Chris Cutler, drums (Deluge)
Fred Frith, guitar, violin (Deluge)
Tim Hodgkinson, saxophone (Deluge)
David Moss, et al. (Dense Band)
Maybe Monday: (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Larry Ochs, saxophone (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Miya Masaoka, koto (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Fred Frith, guitar (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Myles Boisen, electronic manipulation (Prisoners; Wildlife)
Fred Frith, violin, guitar (Screen)
Ikue Mori, drum computers (Screen)
Zeena Parkins (Screen)
Ensemble Modern: (Traffic Continues) |
| Genres: |
Free Improvisation; Jazz |
| Subject: |
Frith, Fred; Potter, Sally; Henry Cow (Musical group); Maybe Monday (Musical group); Improvisation (Music); Sound -- Recording and reproducing; Sound engineers; Graphic notation (Music); Jazz; Motion picture music |
| People: |
Ochs, Larry; Richardson, Derk; Frith, Fred; Moss, David, 1949-; Greaves, John, 1950-; Cooper, Lindsay; Cutler, Chris; Hodgkinson, Tim; Masaoka, Miya; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Boisen, Myles; Mori, Ikue; Parkins, Zeena |
| Recording Date: |
1/30/2005 |
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