Middle of the Moment | ||||
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Released | 1995 | |||
Recorded | Early 1990s, North Africa and Europe | |||
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Length | 60:40 | |||
Label | RecRec (Switzerland) | |||
Producer | Fred Frith | |||
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Middle of the Moment is a soundtrack by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith, of the 1995 documentary film, Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
The film was made over a period of three years in the early 1990s, following the tuareg in North Africa and an avant garde circus troupe, Cirque O in Europe. The music comprises Frith compositions and sound collages drawn from field recordings of ambient sounds, conversations and indigenous music.
Frith describes how he created the soundtrack:[1]
I 'travelled' through this material, formed my impressions, and created a 'sound-movie' from them, using a process analogous to that of editing a film ... My idea is more to create a parallel narrative, free to draw on music that wasn't in the film but was part of the process of making it.