Cut Up the Border

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Cut Up the Border
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Live album by
Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto
ReleasedJanuary 2020 (2020-01)
Recorded1988–1990, 2019
Venue Babylon
Genre
Length57:25
Label RogueArt
Producer Bayerischer Rundfunk / Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Fred Frith chronology
Woodwork
(2019)		Cut Up the Border
(2020)		 Laying Demons to Rest
(2023)

Cut Up the Border is a 2020 live album by English guitarist and composer Fred Frith, German film maker Nicolas Humbert and French sound artist Marc Parisotto. It comprises a collage of unused audio material recorded between 1988 and 1990 for the documentary film on Frith, Step Across the Border , overlaid with live improvisations by Frith performed in January 2019. The album was released by French record label RogueArt in January 2020.

Contents

Development

Some thirty years after Step Across the Border was released, director Humbert reviewed over thirty hours of audio tape that were not used in the film. Humbert and French sound designer, Marc Parisotto used these tapes to create a sound collage of ambient noise and performances by Frith, Tom Cora, Ted Milton, Iva Bittová, Pavel Fajt, Haco and John Zorn. [1] The result was presented at Babylon, a Berlin cinema in Mitte on 17 January 2019 with Frith improvising live over the sound piece. [2] The performance was recorded and broadcast as a radio play by Deutschlandfunk on 15 February 2019. [3] In October 2019, a live remix of the radio play was performed at the Kunstverein Ebersberg art gallery in Ebersberg, Germany with live improvisations from Frith and noise artist Max Bauer. [4] [5]

In January 2020, RogueArt released the Berlin cinema recording of the radio play on CD entitled Cut Up the Border and credited it to Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto. [1] [6]

Reception

Ulrich Pfaffenberger wrote in the German daily newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung that the title of Humbert and Parisotto's work, Cut Up the border suggests the manner in which the sound collage was assembled: they stepped over the border and broke it up. Pfaffenberger described the resulting piece as a collection of noises associated in ways that create a new and unexpected soundscape. [7]

Commenting on Frith's live participation at the Berlin cinema presentation of Cut Up the Border in January 2019, Thomas Mauch saw it as an opportunity for the musician to have a conversation with his past in the sound collage. Writing in Die Tageszeitung Mauch felt that, however, no real conversation took place. The proceedings were dominated by Humbert and Parisotto's audio piece, with Frith only making occasional musical remarks. Mauch stated that Frith's contribution to music and improvisation over the years, as demonstrated in Step Across the Border, is of paramount importance, but here he appeared alone and "a little lost" on the stage. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Just Call Her Nagra" Fred Frith, Marc Parisotto, Nicolas Humbert2:51
2."At Tim's House"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert0:58
3."Complex"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert, Tom Cora 4:16
4."Traffic Jam"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert1:50
5."Jonas"Parisotto, Humbert1:25
6."Bach and Echo"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert2:10
7."Samurai Pachinko Concert"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert4:28
8."Le Lion de Leipzig"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert0:57
9."And If I Had a Heart"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert, Ted Milton 7:36
10."Clapping Rain"Parisotto, Humbert2:50
11."Big Byt" Iva Bittová, Pavel Fajt2:15
12."Le Train Fantôme"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert2:13
13."Your Name Please"Parisotto, Humbert1:33
14."Thank You Tom"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert, Cora3:18
15."Go to the End"Parisotto, Humbert3:35
16."Lost in a Subway Station"Parisotto, Humbert3:56
17."Pacific"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert1:10
18."Haco's Cat" Haco, Parisotto, Humbert1:51
19."I'm Not Diderot"Frith, Parisotto, Humbert4:56
20."Too Loud for Dogs"Frith, John Zorn, Parisotto, Humbert3:17
Total length:57:25

Source: CD liner notes, [9] Discogs. [6]

Personnel

Production and artwork

Source: CD liner notes, [9] Discogs. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "FRED FRITH – NICOLAS HUMBERT – MARC PARISOTTO: CUT UP THE BORDER". roguart.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Art's Birthday 2019: Cut Up the Border / Step Across the Border". Field Notes. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "Cut Up the Border". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Cut up the Border". Kunstverein Ebersberg (in German). 10 October 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  5. ↑ Pfaffenberger, Ulrich (28 October 2019). "Wie ein Tagebuch aus Geräuschen; Sinnliche Wahrnehmung der ungewohnten Art bei der Weltpremiere des Hörspiels 'Cut up the border' in der Galerie des Kunstvereins Ebersberg". Kultur im Landkreis; Ebersberg. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich, Germany. p. 8. ISSN   0174-4917.
  6. 1 2 3 "Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert, Marc Parisotto – Cut Up The Border". Discogs . January 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  7. ↑ Pfaffenberger, Ulrich (23 October 2019). "Geräusch in Farbe, Bild in Schwarzweiß; Fred Frith; Improvisation für Ohr und Auge: Eine Woche lang frönt Ebersberg der Kunst des britischen Musikers Fred Frith". Kultur im Landkreis; Ebersberg. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich, Germany. p. 10. ISSN   0174-4917.
  8. ↑ Mauch, Thomas (19 January 2019). "Remis im Ringen mit sich selbst". Kultur. Die Tageszeitung (in German). Berlin. p. 47. ISSN   0931-9115. ProQuest   2168207951.
  9. 1 2 RogueArt (2020). Cut Up the Border (CD liner notes). Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto.
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