Entries by Joshua Fried

Thanks to popular demand, Alison Corbett, Craig Squires, and the Sound Symposium crew, RADIO WONDERLAND will perform in an actual club with actual room to dance, in a semi-official Sound Symposium gig Wednesday night in St. John's.

A number of folks said they wanted to dance, but it took Alison and her effective combined skills of knowing everyone and laughing infectiously to make it happen.

So as of today the Newfoundland RADIO WONDERLAND schedule looks like this (not counting opening night, which triggered the extra gig, but which is already past):

10:30 pm Wednesday 7 July 2010
CBTG's
38A Water Street, St. John's, NL
Enter on George St. at Holdsworth Court.
709-722-2284 - nominal cover charge
With the weekly Klezmer party!

10:30 am Thursday 8 July 2010
RADIO WONDERLAND workshop and rant
CHORAL ROOM, MUN School of Music, St. John's NL - free

7:30 pm Friday 9 July 2010
Cook Recital Hall, MUN School of Music
Mark Fewer & Aiyun Huang (violin & percussion)
Kurai Mubaiwa & Curtis Andrews (African Percussion)
RADIO WONDERLAND

RADIO WONDERLAND's participation in Sound Symposium made possible in part by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, that's for sure!
Like typical Americans, we're just loving St. John's and want to move here.

Thanks for the nice review!

The Scope on RADIO WONDERLAND on Festival Day 1

Five Questions For Joshua Fried

1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now?

I grew up in LA but NYC controlled me like Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance”. I always knew someday I’d live in an apartment, hang with artists and go on adventures worth telling stories about. I went to college upstate and moved down soon after graduation, to spend as much time as possible in clubs and lofts. Not all of those adventures are worth telling stories about.

2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the biggest influence on you and why?

Probably a tie between Another Green World, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both share an impersonal sheen, flat affect, consummate technique and formal rigor, while evoking an intense individual experience. And that experience can be transpersonal as much as emotional.

3. What skill, talent or attribute do you most wish you had and why?

The ability to channel obsessive energy, meter it, and charge by the kilowatt. Seriously though obsession takes me places but it’s a wild horse.

4. What do you do to make a living? Describe a normal day.

I listen to recorded conversations for the NSA, wrap them up in canvas bags and insert them manually into non-volatile RAM. That’s on Mondays. Then on Tuesdays I extrude the best parts, sneak them out the trash chute, and run them over to Santos Party House where the DJs pay me in Twitter Dollars up front. The rest of the time I gig with RADIO WONDERLAND or else I kick back, but I do shave my head every other day.

5. Have you ever had to make a choice between work and art? What did you choose, why, and what was the outcome?

Yes, starting from about age 20, but I didn’t know it at the time. I realized much later that the choice was always arf, I mean art. The outcome was pre-ordained by the Rent Stabilization Board.

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ICMC “RED LIGHT” CLUB EVENT
11pm Tuesday, 1 June 2010
@ City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 608-0555
Corner of Vandam & Varick: 3 blocks below Houston, 1 block west of 6th Avenue
1 train to Houston, C/E train to Spring
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Robert Ratcliffe/Sarah Watts [UK] Bass clarinet hits the dance floor
David Casal [UK/USA] AI-enhanced dubstep on homemade instruments
Prisoner of Vampires [USA] Harmonious strata of synthesized tones for public consumption
RADIO WONDERLAND [USA] Turning bits & bytes of mass culture into the backbeat for our dance of independence

Thank you Milan, Venice, and specifically Massimo, Vittoria, Michele, Guiseppe, Camilla, ALTAVOZ and ElitaMilano. And for that volcanically-induced forced vacation, Tullio & Co. and B & B's inimitable B&B.

I felt like a rock star. Love it when people dance to RW.