Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
From Fred Frith
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
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.
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