The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre) is a double album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith.

The album comprises three suites: Frith composed all the music and plays most of the instruments, with assistance from John Zorn, Tenko Ueno, Christian Marclay and Jim Staley.

[3] Reviewing the 2008 CD release of the album in the music journal, Notes, Rick Anderson described the three-part Technology of Tears suite as a "pulsing barrage of sounds", broken occasionally by Frith's East-European rhythms and "angular" melodies, and Zorn's "atonal squawks".

[5] Anderson called Jigsaw "a highly episodic collection of brief sound collages, each of them built on pulsing but sometimes quirky rhythms".

[1] She opined that the writing in the Technology of Tears suite "is unexpectedly weak",[6] but had praise for Frith's bass playing towards the end of Part 1, and the inclusion of guests Marclay, Tenko and Zorn.

Gagné felt much the same about the Jigsaw suit, adding that "Frith's weird playing and tape manipulations start sounding more arbitrary or just clever or even redundant."

"[6] Gagné called the 14 tracks in Propaganda "a persuasive suite", adding that "they all seem to reflect and support each other through Frith's shifting atmospheres: barren landscapes punctuated by an ominous thudding pulse".