With Bruce Ackley, Henry Kaiser and Aram Shelton
With Noël Akchoté
Réel (1996, 10" LP, Rectangle, France)
With Núria Andorrà
Dancing Like Dust (2023, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Lotte Anker
Edge of the Light (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With ARTE Quartett
With Derek Bailey and Antoine Berthiaume
With Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock , John Zorn , Bill Laswell and Charles K. Noyes
Improvised Music 1981 (1992, CD, MuWorks, US)
With Anne Bourne and John Oswald
Dearness (2002, CD, Spool , Canada)
With Anthony Braxton
With Chris Brown
Cutter Heads (2007, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With John Butcher
With John Butcher and Theresa Wong
Quintillions Green (2016, FLAC, Otoroku, UK)
With Lindsay Cooper , Lars Hollmer and Gianni Gebbia
With Lol Coxhill
With Chris Cutler
Live in Prague and Washington (1983, LP, Recommended, UK) – 1990 CD release retitled Live in Moscow, Prague & Washington
Live in Trondheim, Berlin & Limoges, Vol. 2 (1994, CD, Recommended, UK)
2 Gentlemen in Verona (2000, CD, Recommended, UK)
The Stone: Issue Two (2007, CD, Tzadik, US)
With Chris Cutler and Tom Cora
Live in Tel Aviv and Aubervilliers (2021, CD, Fred, UK)[ b]
With Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio
Golden State (2010, LP, Recommended, UK)[ c]
With Lesli Dalaba, Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt
With Totsuzen Danball
Live at Loft Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 23.July'81 (1982, CT, Floor, Japan)
With Jean Derome , Pierre Tanguay and Myles Boisen
All is Bright, But it is Not Day (2002, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
With Michel Doneda
Fred Frith Michel Doneda (2014, CD, Vand'OEuvre, France)
With Mark Dresser and Ikue Mori
Later... (2000, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet
En Public aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (1997, CD, Transes Europeennes, France)
With Jean-Pierre Drouet and Louis Sclavis
I Dream of You Jumping (2001, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
Contretemps etc... (2011, CD, In Situ, France)
With Ensemble Modern
With Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
Something About This Landscape for Ensemble (2023, LP, Sub Rosa , Belgium)
With Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Clara Weil
There or Here and That (2020, CD, Eux Sæm, France)
With Janet Feder
With Hardy Fox
A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven and Earth (2018, CD, Klanggalerie, Austria)
With Evelyn Glennie
With Barry Guy
Backscatter Bright Blue (2014, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Tim Hodgkinson
Cut Up the Border by Fred Frith, Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto
With Percy Howard, Charles Hayward and Bill Laswell
Meridiem (1998, CD, Materiali Sonori, Italy)
With Nicolas Humbert and Marc Parisotto
With Darren Johnston
Everybody's Somebody's Nobody (2016, CD, Clean Feed, Portugal)
With Darren Johnston Devin Hoff , Larry Ochs and Ches Smith
Reasons for Moving (2007, CD, Not Two, US)
With Henry Kaiser
With Friends Like These (1979, LP, Metalanguage , US)
Who Needs Enemies? (1983, LP, Metalanguage, US)
With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? (1987, CD, SST , US)
Friends & Enemies (1999, 2xCD, Cuneiform , US)
With Carla Kihlstedt and Stevie Wishart
With Hans Koch
You are Here (2017, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Joëlle Léandre and Jonathan Segel
Tempted to Smile (2003, CD, Spool, Canada)
With Annie Lewandowski
Long as in Short, Walk as in Run (2011, CD, Ninth World)
With René Lussier
With Amanda Miller
Inimitable – Debates for Ganden (2021, CD, Fred, UK)[ b]
With Helen Mirra
Kwangsi Quail (2015, LP, Shhpuma, Portugal)
With Macio Moretti
Works for Me Should Be the Title (2023, LP, Don't Sit On My Vinyl! / Muzyka z Mózgu, Poland)
With Ikue Mori
A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall (2021, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Mózg Injectors
Sylvan Trail (2019, 12" LP and CD, Mózg, Poland)
With Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton
With Bob Ostertag and John Zorn
With Evan Parker
Hello, I Must Be Going (2015, CD, Les Disques Victo, Canada)
With Francois-Michel Pesenti
With Marc Ribot
Subsonic 1. Sounds of a Distant Episode (1994, CD, Sub Rosa/Subsonic, Belgium)
With Ferdinand Richard (as Fred & Ferd)
Dropera (1991, LP, RecRec, Switzerland)
With Danielle Roger
Pas de Deux (2008, CD, Ambiances Magnétiques, Canada)
Laying Demons to Rest by Fred Frith and Susana Santos Silva
With Rusconi
Live In Europe (2016, CD, Qilin, Germany)
With Susana Santos Silva
With Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Lucas N. Niggli, Hans Koch and Peter Kowald
Nil (1995, CD, Unit Records, Switzerland)
With Sonargemeinschaft (Sonar Community)
Drift (2008, CD, Poise, Germany)
With Studio Dan
Rocket Science #1 #5 #8 (2021, CD, ROS, Germany)
With Sudhu Tewari and Cenk Ergün
Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down (2020, Digital, Carrier Records, US)
With Sudhu Tewari (as Normal)
Moving Parts (2023, CD, Fo'c'sle Records, US)
With Toychestra
With Benjamin Vergara
Fanfarrisimo (2019, LP, Tour De Bras, Canada)
With Katharina Weber and Fredy Studer
It Rolls (2015, CD, Intakt, Switzerland)
With Michel Wintsch , Franziska Baumann and Bernard Trontin
Whisperings (2002, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
With John Zorn
The Art of Memory (1994, CD, Incus , UK)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 (2004, CD, Tzadik, US)
The Art of Memory II (2008, CD, Fred, UK)
Late Works (2010, CD, Tzadik, US)
With John Zorn, Onnyk and Toyozumi Yoshisaburo
Ars Longa Dens Brevis (2000, CD, Allelopathy, Japan)