The story of Allies begins in 1989, when guitarist/composer Fred Frith was commissioned by choreographer Bebe Miller to compose a suite for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's "Next Wave'" series. Unhappy ...

When the guitarists Fred Frith and Nels Cline played their first public duet on Saturday night at Subculture, it didn’t always sound like guitar music. It sounded, at times, like a sanitation truck’s ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Since the first Henry Cow album, Leg End, is where Fred Frith’s recorded output begins, it makes ...

In our previous feature on Fred Frith, the veteran guitarist was reluctant to describe what, precisely, he would be doing during his solo sets on his ongoing B.C. tour. We pestered for details—tools, ...

A Google search for images of Fred Frith turns up an ­abundance of photos of the ­master improviser playing his guitar in concert with everything from a paintbrush and decorative chain to drumsticks.

Interviewing Frith for this week’s Artist on Artist is Chicago experimental filmmaker and electronic musician Lori Felker, who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Like Frith, she has ...

On previous visits to Denver, renowned exploratory guitarist Fred Frith performed with John Zorn and Mike Patton, and with guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei and local guitarist Janet Feder, whom Frith has also ...

The celebrated English avant-rocker and composer Fred Frith has written for string quartets, for solo accordion, for electric guitar quartet, and for a mix of instruments and voices, like the choir, ...

When John Zorn first opened the Stone, his humble, no-frills East Village performance space, in 2005, the booking policy indicated his credo: artists first. Mr. Zorn, a celebrated composer, improviser ...

For over four decades, Fred Frith has been pushing the boundaries of music and our notions of what the electric guitar should-and could-sound like. In the late '70s he moved from England to New York, ...

Saturday night’s CapitalBop jazz concert at Rhizome was billed as “the Fred Frith Trio with Heike Liss,” but that was a misnomer. Even putting video artist Liss aside, it wasn’t a trio; trumpeter ...

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for almost 50 years, starting with the iconic rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded ...