Impur (album)
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| Impur | ||
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| Studio album by Fred Frith | ||
| Released | 2006 | |
| Recorded | 1996 | |
| Genre | Experimental rock Free improvisation |
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| Length | 55:00 | |
| Label | Fred Records (UK) | |
| Producer(s) | Fred Frith | |
| Fred Frith chronology | ||
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| Eleventh Hour (2005) |
Impur (2006) |
The Happy End Problem (2006) |
Impur is an album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was composed in 1996 by Frith "for 100 musicians, large building and mobile audience" [1] and was performed on 30 May 1996 by students and teachers from L’Ecole Nationale de Musique, Villeurbanne, France. Frith directed the performance but did perform himself.
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[edit] Background
Between 1994 and 1996, Frith was Composer-in-Residence at L’Ecole Nationale de Musique in Villeurbanne, France. At the end of the two year residency, Frith organised a musical event at the school involving as many students as possible. He grouped them according to their music disciplines and placed them in all the rooms of a music building. Each group of musicians then played music Frith had prepared for them or, when required, improvised. Using synchronized stopwatches, all the groups, who could not hear each other, played strictly according to a 55-minute time-score that Frith had written. During the concert the public was invited to wander from room to room, or sit in the courtyard and listen to the sounds from the open windows. The whole performance was recorded on four ADAT recorders and later mixed. [2]
Downtown Music Gallery wrote of this album: [3]
| “ | There are moments of chaos yet there is a constant thread that seems to hold it together and help things navigate through the more dense sections. What amazes me are those unexpected sections when certain events take place and it seems as if some large hand has reached out and molded a specific segment of the wave of sounds. Those magical moments appear when you least expect them. | ” |
[edit] Track listing
- "Impur" (Frith) – 55:00
[edit] Personnel
- Fred Frith – composer and director
- Students and teachers from L’Ecole Nationale de Musique, Villeurbanne, France – various instruments
[edit] References
- ^ Frith, Fred. Fred Frith compositions. Fred Frith homepage. Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
- ^ Frith, Fred. Impur (Fred Records, 2006). CD booklet.
- ^ Gallanter, Bruce Lee. Newsletter January 26th, 2007. Downtown Music Gallery. Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
[edit] External links
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| Bands | |||||
| Art Bears • Henry Cow • Keep the Dog • Massacre • Skeleton Crew Death Ambient • Fred Frith Guitar Quartet • French Frith Kaiser Thompson |
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| Solo discography | |||||
| Guitar Solos (1974) • Gravity (1980) • Speechless (1981) • Live in Japan (1982) • Cheap at Half the Price (1983) • Quartets (1994) • Eye to Ear (1997) • Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (1999) • Clearing (2001) • Prints (2002) • Eye to Ear II (2004) • Eleventh Hour (2005) | |||||
| Music for Dance: The Technology of Tears (1988) • Allies (1996) • The Previous Evening (1997) • Accidental (2002) • The Happy End Problem (2006) | |||||
| Soundtracks: The Top of His Head (1989) • Step Across the Border (1990) • Middle of the Moment (1995) • Rivers and Tides (2003) | |||||
| Composer only: Pacifica (1998) • Freedom in Fragments (2002) • Impur (2006) | |||||
| Related articles | |||||
| Fred Frith discography • Fred Records | |||||
