37 Quotes by Fred Frith

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.

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.

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.

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.

It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a C.D. and put it out as a soundtrack.

I'm usually pretty careful about that kind of thing, but sometimes the music just pushes me into a direction that I can't really avoid following.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal.