RADIO WONDERLAND

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nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:29:00 -0700

Live (excerpts) at Clocktower Gallery, Manhattan, for the WARPER blow out, January 2012

Live at Joe's Pub, NYC, full-length, hi-fi sound

Live at SPARK 2009 - Drive-by Media!

(le) Poisson Rouge (opening for TMBG) fan video part 1
(le) Poisson Rouge (opening for TMBG) fan video part 2
(le) Poisson Rouge (opening for TMBG) low-quality fan video (but high quality fan)

Five minutes at LEMURplex (on My Space)
Five minutes at LEMURplex (on Vimeo)

Live at Joe's Pub, Oct. 2008, PART 1 of 3
Live at Joe's Pub, Oct. 2008, PART 2 of 3
Live at Joe's Pub, Oct. 2008, PART 3 of 3

Live at Tranzducer, March 2007, Part 1 (on You Tube)
Live at Tranzducer, March 2007, Part 2 (on You Tube)

Live at The Flea, January 2007, Part 1 (on You Tube)
Live at The Flea, January 2007, Part 2 (on You Tube)

A trio!
With Hans Tammen, Endangered Guitar, and Tom Shad, bass.
Astral Freaks live at Warper

Interview
Mad-scientist interview with Patrick Grant for MMiX

American Realness

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:51:42 -0700

Hard to capture the pace, the breadth and downright complexity of tonights American PUSSY FAGGOT Realness.

The NYT piece on Earl Dax http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/theater/08dax.htm does get at some of the context and vibe of his events. I was there for 3.5 hours, running from room to room. And caught Corey Dargel, K-tel and the Dumpsta Players, Mykki Blanco, Joseph Kekkler, Holcombe Waller, our dear brilliant Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag), the couple lip-synching Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Jeremy Wade.

Perhaps Earl Dax most brilliant stroke has been to team up with national treasure Penny Arcade who MCs many of his events (and performed in my Headfone Follies moons ago). Insuring the whole adding up to more than the sum of its parts she historicizes harangues and confronts, and that includes YOU, performer, and YOU, audience. Erok (Eric Singer) once told me his mission was to keep art in NYC dangerous. I felt some of that danger tonight (I court a different kind of danger in my act perhaps). Some barriers fell apart, somehowI missed part of itduring Jeremy Wades participatory session, with all the house lights on (reminding me of when the Pyramid had to turn on the fluorescents and shoo people out the door until we were back to legal capacity). Penny intervened.

A word about the DJ-ing: Andrew Andrew were brilliant as usual, ingenious and technically slick, but needed sound quality to match and that wasnt the PA equipments fault. And Miss Lady Kier Kirby, whom I probably last spoke to while adjusting her mic at the Pyramid 26 years ago, took me back to a place I like to go with I Hear Music In The Streets by Unlimited Touch. Here too (front room) the audio wasnt up to the groove, and that was the PA equipments fault. Some folks listen with their eyes however, and Kier was in full flower; is glitter-icious a word?

Coreys compositionally denseoften heart-rending too for that mattersongs were all the more subtle for being accompanied by an orchestra of all violin (courtesy Cornelius Duffalo and his looping rig, a part sometimes played by my man Todd Reynolds and his looping rig, so I was told by the ever-encyclopedic Nick Hallett.), maybe too subtle for the crowd but a good solution to short set length. Loved the drag and lip-syncing from K-tel & co. and the Albee couple (after whom Penny properly invoked John Epperson/Lypsinka).

Mykki was enlightened, daring a-cappella hiphop (meaning rap that sounds like rap, and not the Bowery Poetry Club)does this guy have a producer (want one)? Joseph Kekkler was in total command of his self-reflexive operatic tale (or tales, I was trying to be in two rooms at once) and of us.

Penny, its easy to say Jibz! We should all say it often. Dynasty Handbag was so spot on, no intervention of any kind called for.

Thanks, Grand Rapids, it was a blast!

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:16:07 -0700

Odd Ball, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, by Stafford Smith. Thank you Stafford!

Odd Ball, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, by Paul Jendrasiak

The shoe pun strikes back!

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:31:03 -0700

Another collision with mainstream media. If they only knew.

For a legible version, there's good old Flickr.

By Izabela Rutkowski, photos by Linda Rosier/Daily News

See, I always said the Shoes & Wheel were simplistic!

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:48:52 -0700

Here, verbatim, are all the comments from the expert jury for NIME 2011 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression, where I rocked the house in 2007, NYC). This year: Oslo.

--------------------------- REVIEW 1 --------------------------
PAPER: 124
TITLE: RADIO WONDERLAND

OVERALL RATING: 0 (borderline paper)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 3 (high)
Originality of submission: 1 (not original)
Relevance to NIME: 2 (I don't know)
Submission category: 3 (appropriate)

Earlier performances seems entertaining, and the artist performs with authority and humor - meeting and communicating with the audience in a convincing way.
Musically the performance follows the same recipe in both web examples, leaving the development in the music quit static in contradiction to the use of real time sampling. The musical result therefore seems quit predictable even thou the basis material is different every time.
Music technological the techniques used are well known.
The use of steering wheel and shoes to control different parameters are original, focusing more on the artistic than the technical value.
The performance is suited for a club performance

---------------------------- REVIEW 2 --------------------------
PAPER: 124
TITLE: RADIO WONDERLAND

OVERALL RATING: 2 (accept)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 3 (high)
Originality of submission: 3 (original)
Relevance to NIME: 2 (I don't know)
Submission category: 3 (appropriate)

QUALITY: The performance is skilled, funny and a good reminder that many academic performance systems are somewhat pompous. I argue that the quality of presentation weights up for a somewhat simplistic performance interface.

ORIGINALITY: Work relates to both sound art using radio as source material and performance/media art as much as electric music. In a NIME context this might be considered original.

RELEVANCE:

CATEGORY: Club venue is good. Could also work in a concert hall situation as contrast to other program.

---------------------------- REVIEW 3 --------------------------
PAPER: 124
TITLE: RADIO WONDERLAND

OVERALL RATING: 3 (strong accept)
REVIEWER'S CONFIDENCE: 3 (high)
Originality of submission: 3 (original)
Relevance to NIME: 3 (relevant)
Submission category: 3 (appropriate)

The piece features an alternate controller consisting in four shoes and one steering wheel. This contrasts with the usual high tech nature of new controllers and brings an ironic touch to the piece. The well controlled rythmic approach makes it particularly suited for the club venue. The staging of the piece has been particularly worked out to bring a theatrical dimension.

As a suggestion, the piece could be potientially improved in its unity if the FaderMix controller could be replaced by the same Wheel and shoes. Ultimately, they provide the same kind of information as the faders and butons of the FaderMix. Assigning them different functions during the performance would make possible to avoid redundant controllers.

O Come Ye Destroy All-Christmas FM Radio

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:24:00 -0700

Just in time to take advantage of that cheesy non-stop Christmas radio, RADIO WONDERLAND hits the stage in Brooklyn for a two-night stand.

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2010-11 PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES
"PROMETHEUS EXPOSED" curated by Fernando Maneca

Friday & Saturday, December 17 & 18, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

Performances
Karen Bernard/Solo
Julie Fotheringham & Jarryd Lowder
Joshua Fried's RADIO WONDERLAND

Discussion
Led by curator Fernando Maneca, who says that all three acts manipulate technology visibly onstage, but are otherwise rather different. We'll be talking about visible vs. invisible tech in the performing arts through history. And I hear there will be cupcakes, to celebrate 20 years of BAX.

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 Fifth Avenue (@ 8th Street)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-832-0018 - info@bax.org

Tickets
In advance, @ Brownpaper Tickets: $12, $7 low income
Day of show, from 7:30 @ the box office: $15, $8 low income

P.S.
I don't mean to put down Christmas music. I like it. It's just the non-stop cheesy Christmas playlist that I think is ripe for deconstruction. No Christmas music will be harmed in the making of RADIO WONDERLAND's coming gigs.

Special added club date and Sound Symposium shows

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:41:00 -0700

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.

Thank you, The Scope.

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:38:01 -0700

Thanks for the nice review!

The Scope on RADIO WONDERLAND on Festival Day 1

Thank you, CulltureBot

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:13:57 -0700

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 Einsteins spooky action at a distance. I always knew someday Id 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 its 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. Thats 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 didnt 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.

*****

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

Back from Italy

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:55:04 -0700

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.

Thank you for the grant

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:43:42 -0700

Happy to have received a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's USArtists International Program, to play and participate in Sound Symposium way up in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

It's 2 July 2010 - 10 July 2010: Sound Symposium

This engagement is supported by through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Just can't stop it

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:27:00 -0700

I'm working on recordings for vinyl/high quality MP3/CD, based on many many hours of live RADIO WONDERLAND documents.

So I have been shying away from performances.

But when Bushwick calls, and when Warper calls, I listen. See below for March 7 and March 10th shows [er, this just in--NWEAMO has been trying to work out dates for RADIO WONDERLAND in Italy--now Milan and Venice are confirmed for April--what is going on?]

Live in Bushwick

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:47:00 -0700

Closing Party for Arts In Bushwick SITE Festival
SITE is a jam-packed two-day performance festival in the heart of a very hot arts scene (too many weekends like these will inevitably lead to the scene boiling over, gentrifying the neighborhood and ruining it for everybody.)

Sunday, 7 March 2010
7pm-11pm (RADIO WONDERLAND @ 10.30)

at
Page Not Found
76 Jefferson Street, bottom buzzer, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Enter through underground entrance.

JMZ to Myrtle/Broadway or L to Morgan Ave.
$5, Free with SITE Festival program

performances by
RADIO WONDERLAND
Super Duck- processed oboe and vocals
Exaltron- trumpet, guitar and live remix
Mary Madsen- dance and video.

Live ambience by Lily Maase, guitar, Garth Stevenson, bass, and Johnny Butler, sax
DJ Cosmo D
Live flipbook making
Live Screen Printing

produced by
Joe Che, Lily M + Addtract Consortium, and "the team that brought you Monduna: a Robot Masquerade"

burner-friendly

Check out the Facebook Event

All at Page Not Found, a new alternative art and event space in the form of a garden apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Live at Warper!

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:57:00 -0700

It's great to be back at Warper, where RADIO WONDERLAND learned to crawl. Come wish Warper a Happy Birthday.

Happy 4th Birthday Warper!

WARPER the monthly party
4 Year Anniversary Blowout, at the new, spacious, well-equipped Knitting Factory

Wednesday, 10 March 2010
8pm-1am (RADIO WONDERLAND @ 11.30)

at
The Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
L to Bedford Ave., G to Lorimer-Metropolitan
FREE / 21 and over

performances by
RADIO WONDERLAND
Exaltron
DJ Shakey
Jon Margulies
!INCLUDE
Elijah B Torn
BomberGirl and the Mechanic
and many more

electronic performers
Projected Images, Workshops, and Interactive Art

Warper Party on the World Wide Web

Thanks everybody

nospam@example.com (Joshua Fried) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:48:05 -0700

Thanks to all who came out and DANCED at recent shows. Three down in October (Providence, San Diego, NYC), and one more to go:

Next Friday, 23 October 2009, 8pm,
in that very classy annual
RADIO FESTIVAL NYC
presented by the Transmission Arts organization,
free103point9.
Ontological Theater
St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th St.
New York, NY 10003
Sliding scale $7-10

Also presenting work that night are the very intriguing murmer and rise set twilight. They might be called Transmission Artists, radio artists, sound artists--I don't know--and for myself, as a matter of principle, if it's made of sound, I call it music.

Call it what you like, this should be a stimulating evening. There won't be much of a dance floor, but there are always aisles, no?

Come early for Tony Martin's installation and instrument Light Pendulum. The three-day festival includes site-specific radio walks, a transmission arts workshop, and many performances.

Produced by free103point9