| Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Fred Frith |
| Cover: | FredFrith AlbumCover StoneBrick.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1992–1995 |
| Venue: | Belgium, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany |
| Label: | I Dischi di Angelica (Italy) |
| Producer: | Fred Frith Massimo Simonini |
| Prev Title: | Friends & Enemies |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | Traffic Continues |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (Graphic Scores 1986–96) is a double live album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises a series of graphic scores Frith composed in 1992 "for any number of players".[1] It was performed live by Frith, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins and the International Occasional Ensemble at five concerts in Canada (October 1992), Italy (May 1992), Belgium (May 1994), Netherlands (October 1994) and Germany (October 1995). Frith also conducted and directed the performances.
The graphic scores used for the performances were a set of photographs taken by Frith of a variety of inanimate objects, including stone pavings, brick walls, windows, stacks of logs and high-tension wires. Each photograph had instructions explaining to the musicians how to interpret the patterns in the image. For example, "Skylight IV" was a photograph of skylights in a large building and was annotated as follows:[2]