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〕 }} ''The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre)'' is a double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the first of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and is sometimes subtitled ''Music for Dance volume 1''. It was recorded between June 1986 and April 1987, and released on a double LP and a single CD by RecRec Music (Switzerland) and on a double LP only by SST Records (United States) in 1988. It was re-issued on CD in 2008 by Fred Records (United Kingdom). All the CD releases omit the ''Propaganda'' suite (side 4 of the double LP). The album comprises three suites: *''The Technology of Tears'', commissioned by Rosalind Newman and first performed by her dance company at the Joyce Theatre, New York City in February 1987; *''Jigsaw'', commissioned by the Concert Dance Company of Boston as a collaboration between Fred Frith, Rosalind Newman and Pier Voulkos and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Works Program of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; *''Propaganda'' (omitted on the CD releases), commissioned by the Creation Production Company, written and directed by Matthew Maguire and first performed at La Mama ETC in New York City from May 1 to 24 1987. Frith composed all the music and plays most of the instruments, with assistance from John Zorn, Tenko Ueno, Christian Marclay and Jim Staley. ==The music== On ''The Technology of Tears'', Fred Frith continues his exploration of world dance music he began on ''Gravity'' and ''Speechless'', this time supplementing traditional instrumentation with digital technology to generate patterns, pulses and noise. Samples are used throughout, accompanied by horns, sporadic percussion and wordless vocals. The album is a mix of musique concrète, folk music and improvisation. On the first part of the ''Technology of Tears'' suite, Frith experiments with Henry Kaiser's newly acquired synclavier, at the time the state-of-the-art sampling and processing technology. On parts two and three of the suite Frith plays mostly "low-grade" instruments with added samples by turntablist Christian Marclay. ''Jigsaw'' is a collection of dozens of musical cells, "each recorded separately in increments of between 3 and 12 measures; all at the same tempo, and in the same key".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frith, Fred: The Technology of Tears )〕 The intention was that the modules could be assembled in any order to create the final piece. The reason for this approach was that Rosalind Newman had requested that many changes be made, and with ''Jigsaw'' she could arrange the segments how she wished. In the end, she accepted Frith's demonstration sequence as the final piece.〔 A reviewer at AllMusic, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, described the ''Technology of Tears'' suite as "... unrelenting slices of hard-edged sounds over a pulse ...", ''Jigsaw'' as "... patterns with constantly shifting accents and sub-divisions ...", and ''Propaganda'' as "... a series of brilliantly evocative soundpieces with electronics, guitar, and sound effects ...".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Technology of Tears」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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