Biography
Within the ’60s and ’70s, very much (otherwise most) contemporary improvisation was jazz-based. That started to switch in the ’80s, whenever a great number of rock and roll musicians began discovering the options of free of charge improvisation and fresh traditional forms. Fred Frith is among the even more prominent. Co-founder from the underground English music group Henry Cow in 1968, composer/improviser/guitarist Frith relocated to the U.S. in the past due ’70s, where he started organizations with such New York-based experimental music artists as cellist Tom Cora, harpist Zeena Parkins, saxophonist John Zorn, and percussionist Ikue Mori. Frith resided in NY for 14 years; a few of his well-known endeavors in that period included Massacre (with Expenses Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Team (with Cora and Parkins), and his sextet Keep carefully the Dog. Within the ’80s, Frith’s compositional actions increased; he started composing for dance, film, and movie theater, as well as for such ensembles because the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Outfit Modern, Asko Outfit, and his very own Guitar Quartet. Mainly called an improvising guitarist, Frith in addition has performed on bass (with Zorn’s Nude Town) and violin (with Lars Hollmer’s Looping House Orchestra). Frith provides performed on albums with the Citizens, Brian Eno, Amy Denio, and René Lussier, to mention just a couple. Frith was the main topic of Step Over the Boundary, a documentary film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels. By 2000, Frith was a teacher of structure at Mills University in Oakland, CA, and continuing release a a bevy of albums including Eleventh Hour in 2005. In 2007, Frith started the entire year by launching Impur as well as the Happy End Issue on ReR, and implemented them with Glucose Factory along with a live record (recorded on the N.Con.C. place The Rock) over the Tzadik label, and completed it with Cutter Minds with Chris Dark brown on Intakt. Frith was much less prolific in 2008 but non-etheless released the great To Sail, to Sail on Tzadik. He found the pace in ’09 2009, as Still Urban and THE BIG PICTURE saw concern on Intakt. He continuing with three produces this year 2010, including Dictée/Liber Novus and Eyes to Hearing, Vol. 3, which made an appearance on Tzadik, and Reside in Japan for ReR.
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Composer
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Traum(a) | 2014 | Short completed | |
Journey in Sensuality: Anna Halprin and Rodin | 2016 | Documentary | |
Zen for Nothing | 2016 | Documentary | |
Discontinuity | 2015 | Short | |
Between Two Worlds | 2011 | Documentary | |
Woman on a Swing | 2010 | Video | |
This Moment Is Not the Same | 2010 | Documentary | |
Rage | 2009/I | ||
El tiempo que se queda | 2007 | ||
Mr. Kurzweil Is Dead | 2006 | Short | |
Kononga | 2006 | Documentary short | |
El sol del movimiento: El principio | 2006 | Short | |
Drei gegen Troja | 2005 | TV Movie | |
Candid | 2005 | Short | |
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie | 2004 | Documentary | |
Thirst | 2004 | Documentary | |
Returning Home | 2003 | Documentary | |
Gambling, Gods and LSD | 2002 | Documentary | |
Rivers and Tides | 2001 | Documentary | |
Love, Money, Love | 2000 | ||
The Tango Lesson | 1997 | ||
Middle of the Moment | 1995 | Documentary | |
Before Sunrise | 1995 | ||
Thea und Nat | 1992 | ||
Une rencontre | 1991 | Short | |
Ostkreuz | 1991 | TV Movie | |
The Top of His Head | 1989 | ||
Wolfsgrub | 1986 | Documentary |
Music Department
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Party | 2017 | guitars post-production | |
Yes | 2004/I | composer: additional music / musician: guitars | |
Rivers and Tides | 2001 | Documentary musician | |
The Man Who Cried | 2000 | musician: guitars | |
The Tango Lesson | 1997 | musician: guitar and violin | |
Orlando | 1992 | composer: additional music | |
Step Across the Border | 1990 | Documentary musician | |
Song of the Shirt | 1979 | musician: guitar |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Unlimited 23 | 2010 | Documentary performer: "Unlimited 2009 extract" / writer: "Unlimited 2009 extract" | |
Yes | 2004/I | arranger: "FAWN" | |
The Tango Lesson | 1997 | performer: "Now", "Red. Yellow, Blue", "Rage", "Danse de Cuisine", "Jacob and the Angel", "Libertango Reprise" / writer: "Now", "Red. Yellow, Blue", "Rage", "Danse de Cuisine", "Jacob and the Angel" |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Unlimited 23 | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Attwenger Adventure | 2007 | Documentary | |
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
Step Across the Border | 1990 | Documentary | |
Top of the Pops | 1974 | TV Series | |
2nd House | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
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