Fred Frith

[outro jingle]Three Miniatures for Solo Horn, The Back of Your Ear, composed by David Jaeger, featuring Olivia Ester on the French horn.

Also in the set, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, accompanied by Fred Frith.

We heard from Otto Detuned, Connor Cambourne.

Thollom and the set opened with Lichen, Movement 2, Marsh Nocturne from the LP Latute Multiple.

And only in New York or maybe Japan would a scene like this spring up because punk was too boring.

And of course, This comp and the artists and the scene is related to SST, not just via Sonic Youth, of course, but also other avant-garde artists we've had on the show like Elliot Sharp or Fred Frith.

My fave on this comp are the contortions, and yes, I can see why this comp is in the top 100 it is a legendary highly influential comp but the other bands on it other than the contortions i've never really gotten into super deeply i've always had a bit of a tough time getting into the rest honestly but i always like these contortions tracks

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... of the first kind of, where it's not just Robert, you know, being that way, where, where everybody else is.

But the person said, was going through all these touch points, the things I've mentioned, like Fred Frith and Henry Cow and Can.

And all of a sudden it's like it dawned on this person.

He's like, "Wait, uh, actually, uh, Bill Bruford [laughs] invented math rock with, uh, 5%."

The radio edit of There Will Be No Miracles Here, that is Erwan Karavec.

Before that, Gamet Inc., Christophus Bobnelis, Martin Prussia with Luciano Bagnasco and Marcelo von Schultz, and Jessica Pavone started the set with Fred Frith.

Jessica's new one is entitled Is In The Air.

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Yeah.

And, um, I've said some stupid stuff that just really needs to be corrected from the past where I, like, said something about Pel Mel and then forgot to say Steve Fisk and instead said Fred Frith 'cause the name sounded like, you know.

I make mistakes-

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That is not a thing most school young players do.

But after working with Fred Frith, after at Carla Kilstead, after being at Mills College and studying.

Are you sure? She jumped.

She jumped off that cliff and decided to learn how to open herself completely and be herself completely on her instrument rather than a tool for tradition.

And now I saw a lot of great people, I now realise that they really were.

But I saw Fred Frith from Henry Cow at the ICA.

And he was improvising away on his own on the guitar.

And somebody stood up and kept taking photos of him.

And this morning, we'll talk about individual pieces and composers and the community that they've built here in the Bay Area.

We're gonna be joined by Charles Amirkhanian, who's co-founder and executive and artistic director of Other Minds.

He's actually stepping down as director after 34 years after this festival.

Welcome, Charles.

Nice to be here.

Welcome.

Thanks for having me.

We've got Joseph Bohigan, who is associate director of Other Minds, gonna take over as artistic director next year.