Wikipedia: "The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) is a double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the first of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made, and is sometimes subtitled Music for Dance volume 1."
On The Technology of Tears, Fred Frith continues his exploration of world dance music he began on Gravity [1980] and Speechless* [1981], this time supplementing traditional instrumentation with digital technology to generate patterns, pulses and noise. Samples are used throughout, accompanied by horns, sporadic percussion and wordless vocals. The album is a mix of musique concrète, folk music and improvisation."
"On the first part of the Technology of Tears suite, Frith experiments with Henry Kaiser's newly acquired synclavier, at the time the state-of-the-art sampling and processing technology. On parts two and three of the suite Frith plays mostly 'low-grade' instruments with added samples by turntablist Christian Marclay. Jigsaw is a collection of dozens of musical cells, 'each recorded separately in increments of between 3 and 12 measures; all at the same tempo, and in the same key.' The intention was that the modules could be assembled in any order to create the final piece."
Zorn is on this as well
*-"Speechless has been described as a mixture of folk music, free improvisation, avant-rock and noise. AllMusic said that it is often regarded as one of Frith's best solo albums."
see also Cheap at Half the Price (1983)