Sunday 28 October 2007

On the busy train home from Aberdeen It's good occasionally to fulfil an ambition. If anyone asked me over the last few years which musician I would most like to work with, not that many people did, I would answer Fred Frith, for a variety of reasons. Not that I necessarily like everything he's done, or have collected all his records or anything, but that I really like the way he works, or as much as I've been able to gather of it. So the chance to join in his improvisation workshops as part of the Sound festival was just too good to pass up. Have melodica (and glockenspiel), will travel. And it was rewarding, enlightening, fun, difficult, hilarious, invigorating and tiring. That'll do.

The concert last night in Aberdeen's Music Hall with Fred, Philip Smith, and (Dame) Evelyn Glennie was pretty remarkable too.

So two whole days of really good musical experiences. That doesn't happen often.