Zen - The Biggest Lie w/ Fred Frith & Ikue Mori

In January 2015, Fred Frith and Ikue Mori met in Germany to record the music for a radio play for Werner Penzel, the filmmaker and longtime friend of Fred Frith, for his film "Zen for Nothing". After finishing their work, they used the free studio day to record their first duo album together. Influenced by the film music and inspired by the long friendship, 15 pieces were created that are both wonderful sound sculptures and fascinating dialogues. Fred Frith writes: “Air moving through ears and hair and lungs and pores, through songs,and scrapes, and scraps of this, that and the other.” And Ikue Mori writes: “… it was about playing with the everyday noises that arise when cooking, playing ping-pong, and especially when laughing. There is a lot of joy in working with these recordings, interacting with them and making music.” Radio play directed by Werner Penzel / Composed & performed by Fred Frith & Ikue Mori / Violin: Ada Gosling / Percussion: Bernd Settelmayer / Original sound recording & editing: Ayako Mogi / Studio recording & mixing: Peter Hardt / Quotes: Kodo Sawaki / Translated by Muho Nölke & Jesse Reiho Haasch / Read by Andrea Hörnke-Trieß from the books "Zen ist die größte Lüge aller Zeiten" & "An Dich" (Angkor Verlag) / Werner Penzel Filmproduktion & Recycled TV AG / BR Hörspiel und Medienkunst 2015 Werner Penzel is the director of "Zen for Nothing":    • ZEN FOR NOTHING - official US trailer   Review: https://www.fundaciondharmagaia.com/a... Fred Frith & Ikue Mori play "Nothing to It":    • Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - Nothing to It   "The Biggest Lie" and other tracks on Bandcamp: https://fred-frith.bandcamp.com/album... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Frith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikue_Mori All of the visual material used in this video was filmed by Muho during 2013 and 2014 at Antaiji and published previously on the YT channel of the monastery: ‪@antai_ji‬ This video was edited by Muho in 2023. Website of Antaiji: https://antaiji.org/en/ More quotes by Sawaki: https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-... Donations: https://sendaba.hatenablog.com/entry/... #zazen #fredfrith #antaiji