The ProjeKcts are a succession of spin-off projects associated with the band King Crimson .
102-474: The ProjeKcts were most active from 1997 to 1999, but have performed intermittently since. These earlier ProjeKcts, up to ProjeKct Six in 2006, were devoted to instrumental and heavily improvised music. All of them included King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp , who described their purpose as being " research and development " for King Crimson. Two later spin-off projects were of a different nature, but both involving former King Crimson members. ProjeKct One began as
204-804: A Welsh mining family; Fripp considers himself to be half Welsh. Her earnings from working at the Bournemouth Records Office allowed his father, Arthur Henry Fripp (1910–1985) to start a business as an estate agent . In 1957, at age eleven, Fripp received a guitar for Christmas from his parents and recalled, "Almost immediately I knew that this guitar was going to be my life". He then took guitar lessons from Kathleen Gartell and Don Strike; Elvis Presley 's guitarist Scotty Moore inspired Fripp to play rock and roll, moving on to traditional jazz at thirteen and modern jazz at fifteen. Fripp has cited jazz musicians Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus as musical influences during this time. In 1961,
306-619: A delay system using two modified Revox A77 reel-to-reel tape machines. The technique went on to play a central role in Fripp's later work, and became known as "Frippertronics". In 1973, Fripp performed the guitar solo on " Baby's on Fire " from Eno's solo album Here Come the Warm Jets . In 1975, Fripp and Eno played live shows in Europe, and Fripp also contributed guitar solos to Eno's 1975 album Another Green World . Fripp started what
408-473: A tape delay system known as " Frippertronics " (superseded in the 1990s by a more sophisticated digitally-based system called "Soundscapes") and a New Standard Tuning system for guitar. Fripp is married to English singer Toyah Willcox . Robert Fripp was born in Wimborne Minster , Dorset , England, the second child of a working-class family. His mother Edith ( née Greene; 1914–1993) was from
510-476: A "second-division touring new wave instrumental dance band" under the name League of Gentlemen , with bassist Sara Lee , keyboardist Barry Andrews and drummer Johnny Elichaoff (credited as "Johnny Toobad"). Elichaoff was later replaced by Kevin Wilkinson. The LOG toured for the duration of 1980. In 1985 he produced the album Journey to Inaccessible Places by classical pianist Elan Sicroff , released on
612-523: A Perfect Pair ), Fripp dissolved the band in 1984. During this period Fripp made two albums with Andy Summers of The Police . On I Advance Masked , Fripp and Summers played all the instruments. Bewitched was dominated more by Summers, who produced the record and collaborated with other musicians in addition to Fripp. In 1982 Fripp produced and played guitar on Keep On Doing by the Roches. Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau wrote that
714-404: A US tour under the name "The Crimson ProjeKCt" and have retained this moniker ever since. As Robert Fripp stated in his Saturday 14 April 2012 diary: "Tony and myself discussed the not-easily-doable name of "Stick Men & The Adrian Belew Power Trio That Do A Set Of King Crimson Music". Tony's suggestion was "ProjeKct Krimson". Mine was "The Crimson ProjeKCt"." The Crimson ProjeKCt has toured
816-495: A career as a professional musician. The majority of Reuter's solo releases under his own name have consisted of ambient textured music (with hidden processes) recorded using heavily effected touch guitar, Warr Guitar or Chapman Stick, plus laptop. Reuter began recording and releasing this type of music in 1998 - beginning with the Taster album - and has released nine such albums to the present day (including three live recordings from
918-464: A composer in the lineage of Harald Genzmer and Paul Hindemith . In 1991, at the age of 18, Reuter began attending courses in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft . Tutored by Tony Geballe (and by Fripp himself), he continued to study Guitar Craft until 1998, combining intensive music courses with explorations of the philosophy of George Gurdjieff and J.G. Bennett . Gurdjieff's work - in particular,
1020-584: A compositional impasse. ProjeKct One performed four consecutive shows at the Jazz Cafe from 1 through 4 December 1997. All four concerts have been made available for download through DGMLive. These performances marked the end of Bruford's involvement with King Crimson in any form. While ProjeKct One was the first of the sub-groups planned, ProjeKct Two actually convened and recorded first. It featured Fripp, Gunn and Adrian Belew on drums rather than guitar (his usual instrument with King Crimson). This configuration
1122-424: A duo of Reuter and Wöstheinrich, with current third man and multi-instrumentalist/sound-designer Tobias Reber joining in 2008. (The band also included No-Man singer Tim Bowness for a period between 2002 and 2005). The project's music has touched on ambient electronica, free-form experimentalism, sung art pop, progressive rock and electronic dance music. To date, Reuter has released eight albums with centrozoon, plus
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#17327987231411224-458: A final set by all six musicians (Levin, Mastelotto, Belew, Slick, Reuter and Ralph) or various subsets thereof playing King Crimson material from the 1994-1996 tours' setlists (using the original "double trio" configuration which this particular 6-musicians-ensemble mirrors, with Slick playing Trey Gunn's parts, Ralph playing Bill Bruford's parts, and Reuter playing Robert Fripp's parts). In the summer of 2012, this sextet supported Dream Theater on
1326-464: A four-piece King Crimson. This lineup produced two industrial metal -influenced studio albums, the construKction of light in 2000 and The Power to Believe . Gunn departed at the end of 2003. Although Levin immediately returned to the band, another hiatus followed until King Crimson reappeared in 2007 with the addition of Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison . This version of the band toured
1428-419: A guitar solo to an extended version of the song ' Heathen Child ' by Grinderman , released as a B-side on the 'Super Heathen Child' single. In 2021, the ambient/electronica album Leviathan was released. Fripp produced it and played guitar, in collaboration with British EDM Duo The Grid . In May 2011, Jakko Jakszyk, Robert Fripp and Mel Collins released A Scarcity of Miracles: A King Crimson ProjeKct on
1530-698: A leading player of the Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick during the 1990s and 2000s before developing, adopting and marketing his own U8 and U10 Touch Guitar instruments. In collaboration with former King Crimson member Trey Gunn , he runs the Touch Guitar Circle, a teaching and support network for touch guitar players. As well as further collaborations with artists including Tim Bowness , Lee Fletcher , Ian Boddy and Robert Rich , Reuter has produced records by numerous musicians and released several solo recordings as both performer and composer. He
1632-729: A long-term collaborator with producer, songwriter and art-pop musician Lee Fletcher, having met him on a Guitar Craft course in the mid-1990s. Reuter is a featured instrumental performer and general contributor to Fletcher's albums Faith in Worthless Things and The Cracks Within - FiWT Remixes , as well as recording the Islands single (a Mike Oldfield cover under the name of Fletcher|Fletcher|Reuter) and playing on Fletcher's 2017 single The Chancer . Reuter's work on Tovah's 2008 art-pop album Escapologist not only involved production (in collaboration with Pat Mastelotto) but also all of
1734-490: A member of Lisken's Chaos Orchester Bielefeld. During 1995 he studied contemporary classical music with Belgian composer and touch guitar (Stick) player Daniel Schell : he also studied Indian music with Ashok Pathak and developed his existing interest in permutation-based compositional principles. In 1996 (while still part-way through his degree course and his Guitar Craft studies) Reuter performed his first complete concert of entirely self-written compositions, and embarked on
1836-489: A new stage... This, I am confident, is one of the most important orchestral works of our era.... a breakthrough in form and sound." Reuter has gone on to compose and record further classical pieces: centrozoon (an improvised music project initiated by fine artist /synth player Bernhard Wöstheinrich ) was the first band which Reuter joined on his professional emergence in 1996. It remains one of his main creative outlets to this day. For most of its career centrozoon has been
1938-559: A number of live and archive releases. Europa String Choir is an instrumental art rock/contemporary classical chamber ensemble with whom Reuter was active for four years (and for which he remains an associate member) Between 1996 and 2000, Reuter played concerts with the group and recorded two albums, Lemon Crash and Marching Ants . Since 2005, Reuter has been affiliated with several projects related to King Crimson . In 2005 Reuter began actively collaborating with King Crimson's drummer Pat Mastelotto . The duo released four albums under
2040-791: A number of records that he called "soundscapes", including 1999 , Radiophonics , A Blessing of Tears , That Which Passes , November Suite , The Gates of Paradise , Love Cannot Bear and At the End of Time , as well as numerous download-only live recordings. (The sampler Pie Jesu consists of material compiled from A Blessing of Tears and The Gates of Paradise .) Fripp's collaborations with David Sylvian feature some of his most exuberant guitar playing. Fripp contributed to Sylvian's twenty-minute track "Steel Cathedrals" from his Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities album of 1985. Then Fripp performed on several tracks from Sylvian's 1986 release, Gone to Earth . In late 1991, Fripp had asked Sylvian to join
2142-662: A parallel and linked career as a contemporary classical composer. In terms of composition, Reuter has shown a particular interest in process music , using rules-based algorithmic and serial compositional techniques. He has also worked with generative music , which informs both the harmonic designs of some of his classical compositions (such as Todmorden 513 ) and his work with the band Tuner and follows various improvisational approaches. Recently, he has been referring to his overall musical approach as "Modus Novus". Reuter views his ongoing work as an opportunity to educate himself through broad experience and experiment. He has cited
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#17327987231412244-399: A permanent member on drums and keyboards, plus Rieflin (when available) on keyboards and "fairy dusting" until 2021. Rieflin last played with Crimson in 2018; he died 24 March 2020. During the early years of King Crimson (1968–74), Fripp used two Gibson Les Paul guitars from 1957 and 1959. The '57 guitar featured three humbucker pick-ups (with one volume control on the pickguard controlling
2346-490: A post-minimal Swiss electric guitar ensemble and added electronics. Falling for Ascension was described as "exceptional music for endlessly rewarding drift and ecstatic momentum... ensemble intricacy at its most musically stimulating" in Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog . Although he'd previously composed contemporary classical instrumental pieces as early as 1988 (compositions written for guitar orchestra when he
2448-452: A re-forming King Crimson as a vocalist. Sylvian declined the invitation, but proposed a possible collaboration between the two that would eventually become a tour of Japan and Italy in the spring of 1992. Also in 1991, Fripp released an album with the project Sunday All Over The World, also featuring his wife Toyah Willcox, former League of Crafty Guitarists member Trey Gunn on Chapman Stick, and drummer Paul Beavis. The prior name of this band
2550-454: A regular series of long hiatuses and further transformations. Fripp pursued side projects during King Crimson's less active periods. He worked with Keith Tippett (and others who appeared on King Crimson records) on projects far from rock music, playing with and producing Centipede 's Septober Energy in 1971 and Ovary Lodge in 1973. During this period he also worked with Van der Graaf Generator , playing on their albums H to He, Who Am
2652-416: A settlement with UMG. In his online diary entry for 6 September 2013, Fripp announced the return of King Crimson as a seven-piece unit with "four Englishmen and three Americans". The new lineup was Fripp, Levin, both Mastelotto and Harrison on drums, returning 1970s band member Mel Collins and two new members: Jakko Jakszyk as singer and second guitarist, and Bill Rieflin as a third drummer. This version of
2754-586: A single eponymous album in 2010. In 2021, Reuter created another new group, Anchor and Burden (named after his 2021 solo album and apparently sharing some conceptual links). With Bernhard Wöstheinrich in the line-up, Reuter acknowledged that Anchor and Burden was in some respects an extension of centrozoon: it also featured Reuter's fellow Touch Guitarist Alexander Dowerk (Zweiton, Van Halo) and drummer Shawn Crowder. The group released four albums during 2021 and 2022 ( Weigh Anchor , Clenched Brow , Furrowed Temple , Molten Burden and Feels Like Forever ) before Crowder
2856-549: A solo musician and as a member of ensembles and orchestras. With Pollmann's aid and encouragement Reuter began composing in 1985 at the age of 11 or 12. He was inspired by a variety of influences - classic 1960s and 1970s pop music ( The Beatles in particular), classical music ( Bach and Messiaen ), progressive rock ( Mike Oldfield , David Torn , Robert Fripp and King Crimson ) and contemporary crossover composers such as David Bedford . During his teens, Reuter studied music history, theory, and analysis with Karlheinz Straetmanns,
2958-422: A suggestion by Bruford to Robert Fripp that they do some improvisational shows together. Fripp suggested adding Gunn, while Bruford suggested adding Tony Levin — four of the six members of King Crimson were now involved. Fripp then developed the idea of " fraKctals ": multiple different subsets of the band working separately as a way of developing new material for King Crimson , the band having been at something of
3060-566: A variety of approaches from unprocessed sound and standard technique through to extreme processed textural sounds and drones. As a performer, Reuter is best known for his work as an art rock musician (partly due to his involvement with multiple projects related to King Crimson and his work in experimental ambient music) but as a keen and flexible collaborator by inclination, his work with other projects has also involved elements of chamber music , jazz , folk and various pop styles depending on context. Since 2011, he has been actively developing
3162-489: A “collaborative” series featuring varied other artists. These include 0000 (with bass clarinettist Stefan “Sha” Haslebacher); Star’s End (with Motzer); and How Things Turned Out (with pianist Angelica Sanchez and fellow Guitar Craft alumnus Tony Geballe). Reuter was also a member of international art pop band This Fragile Moment - fronted by Toyah Willcox and incorporating Estonian duo Fragile (Arvo Urb and Robert Jürjendal) plus Toyah bassist Chris Wong - who recorded
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3264-506: Is also part of an artist-owned production consortium which encompasses Iapetus Media, Unsung Productions and Unsung Records. Most of Reuter's performance work to date has evolved from exploring electric touch-style instruments and sound processing. Between 1993 and 1996, he predominantly played Chapman Stick , switching to 8-string Warr Guitar circa 1997. In 2008, he began using his own self-designed range of 8- and 10-string Touch Guitars. A technically skilled player, Reuter performs using
3366-448: Is used alone." The "B" side of the record, titled "Under Heavy Manners" featured a collaboration with bassist Busta Jones , drummer Paul Duskin, and David Byrne of Talking Heads (as Absalm el Habib). The sounds of this side of the record featured what Fripp called "Discotronics" which was defined as "that musical experience resulting at the interstice of Frippertronics and disco." Concurrent to this, Fripp would assemble what he called
3468-560: The Sacred Dances - would have a profound effect on Reuter's own subsequent work. By his own admission, Reuter was not a particularly disciplined musician in his teens, initially relying on his innate musical talent. His approach changed when he took up the Chapman Stick in early 1993, following discussions with Fripp and inspired by Reuter's own admiration for King Crimson's Stick player Tony Levin . Learning to play both
3570-453: The Sacred Dances ). "The Family" was launched as a formal method in 2007. In 2005, Reuter founded the Touch Guitar Circle, offering expert teaching of touch-guitar playing methods plus a support network for players. Former King Crimson Warr Guitarist Trey Gunn joined in 2010. Reuter continues to offer regular courses in both Europe and America, actively supporting students via continuous online education lessons on technique, composition and
3672-523: The VROOOM EP in 1994 and the THRAK album the following year. Though musically (and relatively commercially) successful, the double-trio King Crimson proved difficult to sustain in the long-term. From 1997 to 1999, the band "fraKctalised" into five experimental instrumental sub-groups known as ProjeKcts . By 1998 Bruford had quit the band altogether: in 2000, Fripp, Belew, Gunn and Mastelotto reunited as
3774-491: The Crimson ProjeKCt Tour of 2014). In 2017, Reuter released a very different album - Falling for Ascension , a twelve-tone pointillist suite reworked from several of his teenage compositions (blending his contemporary classical work with his art-rock work, while also exploring post-rock ). Credited to "Markus Reuter featuring SONAR & Tobias Reber", it's effectively a Reuter solo album performed by him with
3876-678: The Duke Ellington Orchestra, an experience which moved him deeply. He subsequently spent three further years playing light jazz in the Majestic Dance Orchestra at Bournemouth's Majestic Hotel (replacing Andy Summers , who had left for London with Zoot Money ). During this time, Fripp met musicians that he would collaborate with in his career, including John Wetton , Richard Palmer-James , and Greg Lake . At age 21, going back home from college late at night, Fripp tuned on to Radio Luxembourg , where he heard
3978-478: The Editions E.G. label. 1981 saw the formation of a new King Crimson lineup, reuniting Fripp with Bruford and opening a new partnership with two American musicians: bassist/ Chapman Stick player Tony Levin (who had played with Fripp on Exposure and in the first Peter Gabriel touring band) and Adrian Belew , a singer and guitarist who had previously played with Bowie, Talking Heads and Frank Zappa . Although
4080-624: The Nothing is Sacred album in 2020. Reuter has recorded seven albums as an electrophonic duo with British synthesizer player/soundscaper Ian Boddy (plus one with both Boddy and turntablist Nigel Mullaney), three with American experimental guitarist Tim Motzer, two with American ambient electronic composer Robert Rich and two with Zero Ohms (wind/wind-synth instrumentalist Richard Roberts). He has also worked and recorded with German “doombient” musician Stephen Parsick (of ['ramp]). Reuter has also released several albums under his own name but defined as
4182-641: The Scavenger album in 2010. During 2016 Reuter began collaborating with British guitarist Mark Wingfield and Israeli rhythm section Yaron Stavi and Asaf Sirkis : 2017 saw the release of two jazz fusion albums from these sessions - The Stone House (credited to “Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis”) and Lighthouse (credited to “Wingfield Reuter Sirkis”). In 2020, Reuter founded Markus Reuter OCULUS, an experimental electric jazz fusion sextet featuring five previous collaborators (David Cross, Fabio Trentini, Asaf Sirkis, Mark Wingfield and Robert Rich). The group released
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4284-602: The "Modus Novus" music theory. Between 2002 and 2006 Reuter taught classes in "The Psychology of Creativity" at the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany. Despite making a name for himself as a leading player of, successively, the Chapman Stick and the Warr Guitar, Reuter eventually admitted to dissatisfaction with both instruments. Deciding to design his own variant on the touch-style guitar, he set up
4386-594: The 10-string and 12-string models of the instrument required a disciplined approach to study and practice, which Reuter adopted and turned to his advantage. At around the same time, he began to develop a serious interest in textural loop music and started to experiment with a form of "instant composition" using a system of out-of-synch looping devices. In 1993, Reuter began a six-year degree course in psychology at Universität Bielefeld . While at university, Reuter pursued further musical education. Between 1993 and 1996 he studied free improvisation with Gerd Lisken and became
4488-486: The 1981 to 1995 period. Five of the ProjeKct's concerts have been released as live albums. In the latter two projects Reuter performs many musical parts originally played by Robert Fripp. He has sometimes been hailed as Fripp's potential successor, despite always downplaying and rejecting this idea when questioned about it. In addition to his work on the art-pop phase of centrozoon (featuring Tim Bowness), Reuter has been
4590-715: The Air' and the other on 'White Shadow'. And then he plays on 'Exposure'. He gives the colour to this piece, being fifty per cent responsible for its construction. And he also plays classical guitar here and there. He's a musician I admire a lot, because he's one of the only ones to mix discipline and madness with so much talent." In 1977, Fripp played on David Bowie 's album "Heroes" at Eno's invitation. Fripp soon collaborated with Daryl Hall on Sacred Songs . During this period, Fripp began working on solo material, with contributions from poet/lyricist Joanna Walton and several other musicians, including Eno, Gabriel, and Hall (including
4692-573: The Beloved (1994's Flowermouth and 1996's X , respectively). He also contributed soundscapes and guitar to two albums by the UK band Iona : 1993's Beyond These Shores and 1996's Journey into the Morn . In late 1994, Fripp re-formed the 1981 line-up of King Crimson for its fifth incarnation, adding Trey Gunn and drummer Pat Mastelotto in a configuration known as a "double trio". This line-up released
4794-644: The Birchmere in the Washington, DC, area, as Adrian Belew was taken ill that night. Following their impromptu performance, the three band members interacted with the audience in the form of a question and answer session. This is the only other full concert appearance of P3 other than the tour of Texas in March 1999. The performance is available on CD ( ProjeKct Three – Live in Alexandria, VA, 2003 ), however,
4896-463: The CD, future King Crimson member Pat Mastelotto took over the drumming spot. The live document Damage was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, Redemption – Approaching Silence , which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption). During the early and mid-1990s Fripp contributed guitar/soundscapes to Lifeforms (1994) by
4998-670: The Court of the Crimson King , was released in late 1969 to great success: drawing on rock, jazz and European folk/classical music ideas, it is now regarded as one of the most influential albums in the history of progressive rock . The band was tipped for stardom, but, due to growing musical differences between Fripp on one side and Giles and McDonald on the other, broke up after its first American tour in 1970. A despondent Fripp offered to leave if it would allow King Crimson to survive; however, Giles and McDonald had independently decided that
5100-648: The Future Sound of London and Cydonia (released 2001) by the Orb , as well as FFWD , a collaborative effort with the latter's members. In addition, Fripp worked with Brian Eno co-writing and supplying guitar to two tracks for a CD-ROM project released in 1994 entitled Headcandy created by Chris Juul and Doug Jipson. Eno thought the visual aspects of the disc (video feedback effects) were very disappointing upon completion, and regretted participation. During this period, Fripp also contributed to albums by No-Man and
5202-589: The Gibson Les Paul is that the signature model is built using a deep set neck tenon rather than a traditional set neck. Fripp recommended that Guitar Craft students adopt the Ovation 1867 Legend steel-string acoustic guitar . "Fripp liked the way the Ovation 1867 fitted against his body, which made it possible for him to assume the right-arm picking position he had developed using electric guitars over
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#17327987231415304-601: The Hammersmith Odeon on 12 January 1980, participating in a cover version of Bowie's " 'Heroes ' ". In 1980, Fripp would release God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners , a project that saw two different musical approaches to Frippertronics on one LP. The "A" side of the record, titled "God Save the Queen" attempted what Fripp referred to as "pure Frippertronics" which is "where Frippertronics
5406-702: The Only One and Pawn Hearts . He produced Matching Mole 's Matching Mole's Little Red Record in 1972. Prior to forming the Larks -era KC, he collaborated on a spoken-word album with a woman he described as "a witch", but the resulting Robert Fripp & Walli Elmlark: The Cosmic Children of Rock was never officially released. With Brian Eno , Fripp recorded (No Pussyfooting) in 1972, and Evening Star in 1974. These experimented with several avant-garde musical techniques that were new to rock. On "The Heavenly Music Corporation" from No Pussyfooting, Fripp used
5508-596: The Panegyric label. The album also featured contributions by Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison, leading to speculation that the project was a dry run for a new King Crimson lineup. In an interview published 3 August 2012, Fripp stated that he had retired from working as a professional musician, citing long-standing differences with Universal Music Group and stating that working within the music industry had become "a joyless exercise in futility". This retirement proved to be short-lived, only lasting as long as it took to come to
5610-607: The Q&;A session on the CD is incomplete. The complete Q&A is available separately as a download at the DGMLive web site. ProjeKct Four performed a seven-show tour of the United States from 23 October – 2 November 1998. These shows consisted of improvised material, as well as expanded upon material developed by earlier ProjeKcts. All seven of these shows have been made available for download through DGMLive. ProjeKct X
5712-575: The United States twice and performed in both Russia and Japan. There are official live recordings available from these tours, including the Dream Theater shows. This is the only ProjeKct to date not to include Robert Fripp. During 2014, the band toured in Australia, New Zealand and, for the first time, Europe. Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as
5814-666: The album "sounds so good I'm beginning to believe Robert Fripp was put on earth to produce the Roches." Fripp was offered a teaching position at the American Society for Continuous Education (ASCE) at Claymont Court in Charles Town, West Virginia in 1984. He had been involved with the ASCE since 1978, eventually serving on its board of directors, and had long been considering the idea of teaching guitar through ideas derived from Bennett and Gurdjieff. His course, Guitar Craft,
5916-402: The album's arrangements. Since 2015, Reuter has been an associate member of Dutch Rall's synthpop studio project Nocturne Blue, providing touch guitar solos and textures. Reuter's exploration of jazz and jazz fusion began in 1998 with his work with String Unit, an ambient world-jazz trio which also featured acoustic guitarist Dagobert Böhm and violinist Zoltán Lantos . Reuter remained with
6018-471: The album, but used the pseudonym "Dusty Rhodes" and concealed himself on stage. Fripp also produced and played on Gabriel's second album in 1978. "Robert is particularly skilful at keeping things fresh, and I like that a lot," Gabriel enthused. "I was very interested in Robert's experimental side; that corresponded exactly to what I wanted to do on this second record… There are two (Fripp) solos: one on 'On
6120-642: The band had been conceptualised under the name Discipline, it came to Fripp's attention that the other members thought the name King Crimson was more appropriate: for Fripp, King Crimson had always been "a way of doing things" rather than a particular group of musicians. With the more pop-inspired Belew as main songwriter (complementing Fripp as main instrumental composer) the band took on a new style incorporating influences from Indonesian gamelan , new wave , and classical minimalism , with both guitarists experimenting extensively with guitar synthesizers. After releasing three albums ( Discipline , Beat and Three of
6222-544: The band name of Tuner before releasing 2017's Face album as "Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter". In 2010 Reuter joined Mastelotto and Tony Levin in the Stick Men trio (replacing Michael Bernier), with whom he has released eleven studio and live albums plus an EP. In 2011, Stick Men united with the Adrian Belew Power Trio to form the six-piece Crimson ProjeKct and perform King Crimson material from
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#17327987231416324-442: The band went on tour in 2014 and 2015 with a setlist reworking and reconfiguring the band's 1960s and 1970s material (plus songs from A Scarcity of Miracles and new compositions). In early 2016, it was announced that former Lemon Trees / Noel Gallagher drummer Jeremy Stacey would substitute for Rieflin on that year's tour while the latter was on sabbatical. King Crimson continued touring as a seven- or eight-piece unit with Stacey as
6426-505: The band's music was "more Fripp's than theirs" and that it would be better if they were the ones to leave. During the recording of the band's second album In the Wake of Poseidon , Greg Lake departed to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer with Keith Emerson of the Nice and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster . King Crimson issued two more albums, Lizard and Islands , with Fripp and Sinfield
6528-416: The challenges brought to him by long-term musical partners (such as Bernhard Wöstheinrich ) as being a particular inspiration. Markus Reuter began training as a musician in 1975 at the age of three. Initially he studied as a pianist (tutored by Ulrich Pollmann) and later took up classical guitar and mandolin . During his childhood and early teens (up until the age of 16), he performed in concert both as
6630-490: The company Touch Guitars in 2007, intending to apply his knowledge of touch-style playing techniques to the task of producing musical instruments entirely based in the tradition of guitar-building. The first of these instruments, the U8 Deluxe Touch Guitar, was built by American luthier Ed Reynolds (who also acted as consultant for the project and built ten of the subsequent production models). The prototype
6732-469: The course of a two-decade career, he has been a member of multiple bands, ensembles and projects (including centrozoon , Stick Men , Tuner , The Crimson ProjeKct and Europa String Choir ) as well as a solo artist. Since 2011 Reuter has begun to establish himself as a contemporary classical composer, starting with the performance and recording of his large-scale orchestral piece Todmorden 513 . A specialist in touch guitar playing , Reuter became known as
6834-558: The duo played a brief English tour in 2009 (repeating the collaboration with the Follow album in 2012). Also in 2009, Fripp played a concert with the band the Humans (which consists of his wife Toyah Willcox , Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong), appeared on Judy Dyble 's Talking With Strangers (along with Pat Mastelotto and others) and played on two tracks on Jakko Jakszyk 's album The Bruised Romantic Glee Club . In 2010, Fripp contributed
6936-434: The east coast of the U.S., opening for Porcupine Tree. In the same year, Fripp contributed to two songs from Porcupine Tree 's Fear of a Blank Planet (" Way Out of Here " and " Nil Recurring "). Fripp also sporadically performed as an opening act for Porcupine Tree on various tours from 2006 through 2009. In 2008, Fripp collaborated with Theo Travis on an album of guitar and flute-or-saxophone duets called 'Thread', and
7038-447: The eastern United States in 2008, reassessing the 1981-2003 back catalogue and introducing lengthy duets between the two drummers. No new original material was recorded, and in 2010, Fripp announced that King Crimson were on another indefinite hiatus. In 2004, Fripp toured with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai as part of their G3 series. He also worked at Microsoft 's studios to record the startup sound for Windows Vista . Fripp designed
7140-484: The fifteen-year-old Fripp joined his first band, the Ravens, which also included Gordon Haskell on bass. After they split in the following year, Fripp concentrated on his O-level studies and joined his father's firm as a junior negotiator. At this point, he intended to study estate management and, eventually, take over his father's business. However, at seventeen, Fripp decided to become a professional musician. He became
7242-419: The group until 2000, when it released its single album String Unit , under the name of Dagobert Böhm/ Zoltan Lantos /Markus Reuter. Reuter resumed jazz work when he joined the spontaneous electro-acoustic improvisation band Syntony in 2009 (in which he worked with saxophonist Florian Bramböck, trumpeter Luca Calabrese, drummer Georg Tausch and bass guitarist/electronics player Yoshi Hampl). The band released
7344-527: The guitarist in the jazz outfit The Douglas Ward Trio, playing in the Chewton Glen hotel in New Milton , followed by a stint in the rock and roll band The League of Gentlemen, which included two former Ravens members. In 1965, Fripp left the group to attend Bournemouth College , where he studied economics, economic history, and political history for his A-levels. In February 1965, Fripp went to see
7446-619: The guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson . He has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborator, notably with David Bowie , Blondie , Brian Eno , Peter Gabriel , Daryl Hall , the Roches , Talking Heads , and David Sylvian . He also composed the startup sound of Windows Vista , in collaboration with Tucker Martine and Steve Ball. His discography includes contributions to more than 700 official releases. His compositions often feature unusual asymmetric rhythms , influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations include
7548-413: The label, preferring to describe his role as "quality control" or "a kind of glue"). From this point onwards, Fripp would be the only constant member of the band, which in turn would be defined primarily by his compositional and conceptual ideas. With avant-garde percussionist Jamie Muir , violinist David Cross , former Family bassist and singer John Wetton and former Yes drummer Bill Bruford now in
7650-595: The last moments of the Beatles ' " A Day in the Life ". "Galvanized" by the experience, he went on to listen to the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Béla Bartók 's string quartets , Antonín Dvořák 's New World Symphony , Jimi Hendrix 's Are You Experienced and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers . Many years later, Fripp would recall that "although all the dialects are different,
7752-852: The latter's partner, John Oates), as well as Peter Hammill , Jerry Marotta , Phil Collins , Tony Levin and Terre Roche . This material eventually became his first solo album, Exposure , released in 1979, followed by the Frippertronics tour in the same year. While living in New York, Fripp contributed to albums and live performances by Blondie ( Parallel Lines ) and Talking Heads ( Fear of Music ), and produced The Roches ' first and third albums, which featured several of Fripp's characteristic guitar solos. A second set of sessions with Bowie produced Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) , and he collaborated with Gabriel again on his third solo album . With Blondie, Fripp appeared live on stage at
7854-537: The main contributing musicians. In 2006, Reuter set up three interrelated businesses with his centrozoon partner Bernhard Wöstheinrich. One of these was the media company Iapetus Media, the second was the artist-owned production company Unsung Productions, and the third was the affiliated record label Unsung Records (which would release much of Reuter's subsequent work). Collaborators in Unsung/Iapetus work include Fabio Trentini and Lee Fletcher (Adrian Benavides
7956-443: The middle pick-up). In the band's 1980s era, he favoured Roland GR-303 & GR-808 guitars for both straight guitar and synth control. In subsequent years, Fripp has used customized Les Paul-style guitars by Tokai , 48th St Custom, and Fernandes . A signature model named for the guitarist (Crimson Guitars Robert Fripp Signature) features Fernandes Sustainer and MIDI pickups with a Les Paul-style body. A significant difference from
8058-434: The more ambitious compositions being written by McDonald, and the band broke up in 1968. Almost immediately, Fripp, McDonald and Michael Giles formed the first lineup of King Crimson in mid-1968, recruiting Fripp's old Bournemouth College friend Greg Lake as lead singer and bassist and McDonald's writing partner Peter Sinfield as lyricist, light show designer and general creative consultant. King Crimson's debut album, In
8160-642: The name ProjeKct X to differentiate themselves from the regular King Crimson, thus freeing up their talents to stray beyond the usual repertoire. The ProjeKcts were then dormant until 2006, when Fripp on guitar and Belew on drums played live under the name ProjeKct Six. There has been no ProjeKct Five, but in 2006, Fripp mentioned plans for a ProjeKct Five distinct from the then current King Crimson line-up (Fripp, Belew, Levin, Mastelotto). Porcupine Tree invited ProjeKct Six to play as their support band. A project including Jakko Jakszyk along with Crimson alumni Fripp and Mel Collins (returning after 40 years), this
8262-636: The only constants in a regularly changing lineup variously including Gordon Haskell, woodwind player Mel Collins , drummers Andy McCulloch and Ian Wallace and future Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell , in addition to a palette of guest players. Fripp was listed as the sole composer of the band's music during this time, which built on the first album's blueprint but progressed further into jazz-rock and free jazz while also taking form from Sinfield's esoteric lyrical and mythological concepts. In 1971, Fripp ousted Sinfield and took over de facto leadership of King Crimson (although he has always formally rejected
8364-472: The planet's least popular music forms will also be the planet's most sounded in 2008. This has to be some kind of a record. Fripp's online diary at dgmlive.com In late 2005 and early 2006, Fripp joined R.E.M. / Nine Inch Nails drummer Bill Rieflin 's improvisational Slow Music project, along with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck , bassist Fred Chalenor , session drummer Matt Chamberlain and Hector Zazou on electronics. This collective of musicians toured
8466-501: The ranks, King Crimson produced three more albums of innovative and increasingly experimental rock , shedding members as they progressed: beginning with Larks' Tongues in Aspic , progressing with Starless and Bible Black after Muir's departure and culminating in Red after Cross was fired. Fripp formally disbanded the group in 1974, in what eventually turned out to be merely the first in
8568-516: The reunited King Crimson in 2014: the title track and "The Light Of Day" In August 2011, Levin, Mastelotto and Belew organised the "3 of a Perfect Pair Camp", a music seminar that included daily group performances of King Crimson repertoire by the trio, partway through being joined by Markus Reuter (touch guitar) from Stick Men, plus Julie Slick (bass) and Tobias Ralph (drums) from the Adrian Belew Power Trio. This performance
8670-466: The soundscape and composed the melody, while Tucker Martine created the rhythm and Microsoft's Steve Ball added the harmonies and created the final arrangement. this interesting factoid: in addition to 200 million Vista users with the 4 note splash, an extract from the Soundscapes' Vista sessions is estimated to strike up 91% of 32 trillion times on the new MS Mail programme this year. So, one of
8772-441: The trio relocated to London and became Giles, Giles and Fripp . Their only studio album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp , was released in 1968. Despite the recruitment of two further members – singer Judy Dyble (formerly with Fairport Convention and later of Trader Horne ) and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald – Fripp felt that he was outgrowing the eccentric pop approach favoured by Peter Giles, preferring
8874-405: The voice was the same... I knew I couldn't say no". As a band leader, Fripp pointed out that Miles Davis and Duke Ellington inspired him to seek "constant change". In 1967, Fripp responded to an advertisement placed by Bournemouth-born brothers Peter and Michael Giles , who wanted to work with a singing organist. Though Fripp was not what they sought, his audition with them was a success and
8976-630: The west coast of America in May 2006. In 2006 Fripp contributed his composition "At The End Of Time" to the Artists for Charity album Guitarists 4 the Kids , produced by Slang Productions, to assist World Vision Canada in helping underprivileged children. Throughout 2006, Fripp performed many solo concerts of soundscapes in intimate settings in churches around England and Estonia. In October 2006, ProjeKct Six (Fripp and Adrian Belew) played at select venues on
9078-835: The work was expanded to a full orchestral arrangement in collaboration with American conductor and composer Thomas A. Blomster. This version (performed by the Colorado Chamber Orchestra) was premiered in Denver, Colorado in April 2013 and has been released on record twice – first as a studio recording in 2014, then as a live recording in 2016. Reviewing the studio recording in Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review , Grego Applegate Edwards hailed Todmorden 513 as "sound (ing) like what Morton Feldman might have written had he advanced to
9180-874: The years; on deeper-bodied guitars, the Frippian arm position is impossible without uncomfortable contortions", according to Tamm. While the 1867 Legend is no longer manufactured, it influenced the design of the Guitar ;Craft Pro Model of Guitar Craft Guitars, which has been endorsed by Fripp. Markus Reuter Markus Reuter (born Lippstadt , Germany , 1972 ) is a German multi-instrumentalist, composer , record producer and instrument designer. Reuter's work as recording artist, solo performer and collaborator spans (and frequently fuses) electrophonic loop music , contemporary classical music , progressive and art rock , industrial music , world jazz , jazz fusion , pop songs and pure improvisation. Over
9282-403: Was Fripp Fripp, and they toured as such in 1988. They renamed to SAOTW, and toured again as SAOTW, in 1989. In July 1993, Sylvian and Fripp released the collaborative effort The First Day . Other contributors were soon-to-be King Crimson member Trey Gunn on Chapman Stick and Jerry Marotta (who, like Sylvian, almost became a member of King Crimson) on drums. When the group toured to promote
9384-521: Was a preview of the "Two of a Perfect Trio" tour of the US and Canada in September–October 2011 which comprised sets by Stick Men (Tony Levin on Chapman Stick and vocals; Pat Mastelotto on drums, percussion, vocals; and Markus Reuter on touch-style guitars), The Adrian Belew Power Trio (Belew on guitar, vocal and pre-recorded samples, Slick on bass and either Tobias Ralph or Danny Carey on drums) and then
9486-597: Was also involved until 2012). Benjamin Schäfer has been the engineer for Unsung Productions since 2014, co-producing with Reuter. Reuter began his work as a teacher in 1998, conducting touch guitar seminars in Spain, Belgium, and the USA. From this work he developed a set of systematic playing techniques and exercises called "The Family", inspired by Guitar Craft and by George Gurdjieff 's work on physical movement (in particular,
9588-606: Was begun in 1985, an offshoot of which was a performance group, "the League of Crafty Guitarists", which has released several albums. In 1986, he released the first of two collaborations with his wife, Toyah Willcox . The members of the California Guitar Trio are former members of The League of Crafty Guitarists and have also toured with King Crimson. Fripp is the patron of the Guitar Circle of Europe , which
9690-722: Was completed in June 2008 and soon became Reuter's own instrument of choice. Touch Guitars currently manufacture three instruments – the U8 and U8 Deluxe Touch Guitar (both 8-string instruments) and the U10 Touch Guitar(a 10-string instrument with a split sound output). The AU8 (a semi-acoustic hollow-body version, aimed at reproducing the sound of a tapped acoustic guitar) followed in 2015. Several of Reuter's students, including Alexander Dowerk and Erik Emil Eskildsen also play Touch Guitars and have released recordings of music made with
9792-533: Was fifteen), Reuter's formal work as a classical composer began with Todmorden 513 . For this work, he applied his ambient process music approach to chamber music in what he intends to be an increasing number of large-scale contemporary classical works for orchestras and chamber ensembles. In 2011 Reuter released a recording of the small-ensemble version of the piece (featuring his own processed and overdubbed touch guitar plus string quartet, recorder, electric organ, synthesizer, glockenspiel and electronics. In 2013,
9894-644: Was founded in 2007, and of the Seattle Circle Guitar ;School , which was founded in 2010. In February 2009, Fripp recommended that Guitar Craft cease to exist on its 25th anniversary in 2010. On 1 September 2022 Fripp published The Guitar Circle , a book of writings concerning Guitar Craft. Fripp returned to recording solo in 1994, using an updated version of the Frippertronics technique that creates loops employing digital technology instead of analogue tapes. Fripp has released
9996-431: Was intended as a permanent sabbatical from his musical career in 1975, during which he studied at J. G. Bennett 's International Academy for Continuous Education, becoming interested in the mystical and philosophical ideas of Bennett's teacher George Gurdjieff . He returned to musical work the following year as a session guitarist on Peter Gabriel 's debut solo album , released in 1977. Fripp toured with Gabriel to support
10098-576: Was not a group as such, but an alter ego to the Fripp/Belew/Mastelotto/Gunn King Crimson lineup that produced a CD based on material recorded during the construKction of light sessions and remixed and re-assembled by the band, particularly Mastelotto and Gunn. The resulting album, Heaven and Earth , was released in 2000 alongside the construKction of light . Additionally, when the 2000-2003 group performed improvised pieces during their live shows, they would use
10200-526: Was replaced by Asaf Sirkis for the fifth album, 2023's Kosmonautik Pilgrimage . Since 2002, Markus Reuter has developed his work as a record producer for other artists, including Chrysta Bell , Yoshi Hampl, UMA, Tovah, The Season Standard, Skin Diary, Lake Cisco and The Redundant Rocker. He also served as producer for the Toyah Willcox -related project This Fragile Moment , for which he was also one of
10302-409: Was ultimately dubbed "A King Crimson ProjeKct," and has been referred to by Fripp as "ProjeKct 7". The album A Scarcity of Miracles features this line-up, along with other Crimson alumni Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison . Everyone who performed on the album later joined King Crimson full-time in 2013. This is the only ProjeKct not to play live ever, however 2 songs from the album were later performed by
10404-841: Was unplanned, but when the group gathered at Belew's home studio to record, he had recently taken possession of the V-drums and Fripp was keen to experiment with their use. The group enjoyed the results enough that it was decided to keep this configuration for the whole course of the project. They released the studio album Space Groove in 1998. Additionally, they performed thirty-five concerts between February and July 1998. All thirty-five shows have been made available for download through DGMLive. ProjeKct Three (P3) performed five shows from 21 March through 25 March 1999 in Texas. In May 2014 all five shows were made available for download from DGMLive. On 3 March 2003, P3 performed instead of King Crimson at
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