Internationally renowned guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith will lead a two-day long workshop with a final collective performance, i.e. masterclass, based on his very specific approach to improvisation, experimentation, performance and composition. The masterclass is intended for musicians experienced in improvised and experimental music. The workshop focuses on the learning process and expanding practices.

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The workshop takes place over two days during NEXT Festival 2025.
November 27 – 10:00 – 15:00
November 28 – 10:00 – 15:00
Venue: Studio 12

Final event – Concert
November 29 – 19:30
Venue: A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture

Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for more than 50 years, starting with the rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968.
Fred is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater. His compositions have been performed by ensembles ranging from the Bang on a Can All Stars to Concerto Köln, from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to the ROVA and Arte Sax Quartets, from Ground Zero to the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra.

He has improvised with Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Joëlle Léandre, Phil Minton, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Bob Ostertag, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins and many others; and—as session musician—recorded on albums by, for example, Brian Eno, The Residents, Robert Wyatt, The Swans, Violent Femmes, Material, Negativland, and John Zorn. He taught for twenty years at the legendary epicenter of American experimental music, Mills College from 1999 till his retirement in 2018; as well as co-directing (with Alfred Zimmerlin) the improvisation master’s program at the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland.

Organised by A4 as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation.