Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser 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. Through bands like Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, and Cosa Brava, he has stayed close to his roots in rock and folk music while branching out in many other directions.

Canadian artist Lovage Sharrock describes Phipps Pt., her project with Bay Area-based electronic musician Jon Leidecker (Wobbly, Negativland, Thurston Moore Group), as “a conjured place or an altered state – and we’re going there together.” Falling somewhere between precise songcraft and free improv, acid folk and ambient electronics, Sharrock’s gossamer vocals and delicate, fingerpicked guitar patterns find their complement in Leidecker’s equally sensitive approach to processing both, so that input frequently becomes indistinguishable from output.