RADIO WONDERLAND

An evening by students and faculty of the Music Technology Program @ NYU

8.30pm Sunday 6 May 2007
Judson Church
55 Washington Sq. South (betw/ Thompson & Sullivan)
donation (Free for NYU students)

DUET with Dafna Naphtali, voice and processing — no radio! I’ll be
slicing and dicing Dafna……..’s voice.

We are both NYU adjuncts. Dafna is a prodigious processor, audio maven
and virtuoso soprano. She performed my solo headphone-driven piece
*Travelogue* years ago! http://www.dafna.info/

The great monthly electronic, processed sound, and DJ centric party. The only event I know where you start with a workshop on audio software and you end up dancing ’til your face falls off. Late last year, they booked a wobbly newborn Radio Wonderland as their “featured performer”, and it felt so good I’m back for more, as a faithful Warper commune denizen.

Tuesday, April 3rd
8 pm – 2am
Radio Wonderland at 10.30pm
FREE
THE DELANCEY
168 Delancey (betw. Clinton and Attorney)
212-254-9920

Radio Wonderland took its baby steps at this great and artsy Williamsburg club. So it seems auspicious to return now with the fully developed (and yet, ever developing) show.

On the last Wednesday of each month, Zach Layton sprinkles modernist fairy dust over the glittering front room at Galapagos. Zach and his fellow musical wizard Nick Hallett will spin the likes of Stockhausen and Cage (and Giorgio Morodor)–sometimes all at once–to set the mood. They call their monthly event Darmstadt-Classics of the Avant-Garde.

Also that night:
The super-sharp audio-visual-conceptual artist Luke DuBois is also an important coder and one of the authors of Jitter. “Luke DuBois uses original software to deconstruct the greatest hits of modern culture, Oscar-winning films and Bilboard Number One hits, into mind bending a/v abstractions.” Sounds simpatico with Radio Wonderland, no?

And Radio Wonderland will rock the house.

Directions to Galapagos

Let Them Talk with Paul DeRienzo and Miss Joan Marie Moossy was broadcast live on Tuesday March 27, 2007 from 8-8:30pm in Manhattan on MNN’s channel 56 and on the internet at MNN.org.

This is a radical, informal talk show that only non-commercial media could provide.

You guessed it–special guest is Mr Radio Wonderland, Joshua Fried.

Joshua Fried on Let ‘Em Talk with Paul DeRienzo+Miss Joan Marie Moossy

Well, plane trip actually.

Radio Wonderland hits Atlanta’s premiere, or maybe only, non-profit experimental multi-arts venue, Eyedrum on Sunday, March 25th at 8pm.

I’ll stay in town to give a lecture and oversee my HEADSET SEXTET, performed by the cool resident cyber-ensemble of Georgia Tech, Sonic Generator.

Links to both events:

Radio Wonderland

Headset Sextet

Only four months out of the box and RW is ready to rock BAMcafé! This should be a spectacular, multivarious night, and it’s free.

Saturday 24 February 2007, 10pm
Galapagos Art Space presents:
ART JAM at BAMcafé
No cover. No minimum.

The BAMcafé is upstairs from the great BAM opera house and BAM Rose Cinemas, at
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
Directions and more are here.

It’s part of BAM’s Brooklyn Next festival, and this night is produced by BAM and the very cool Galapagos venue in Williamsburg.

ART JAM is a music and performance series curated by downtown impresario Earl Dax/scenedowntown. This special Brooklyn Next edition of Dax’s salon will light up BAMcafé with co-host the juggling, fire breathing, and light bulb-eating Jennifer Miller (Circus Amok), and features Joshua Fried’s RADIO WONDERLAND, “crackpot genius” (Village Voice) Dynasty Handbag, the trip-hop classical Bora Yoon, music producer and DJ Bill Coleman with his dance troupes The Daisy Spurs and The Fukerettes, music by DJ Designer Imposter, and visuals by Bec Stupak.

BAMcafé Live:
Every Friday and Saturday night, BAMcafé Live showcases renowned and emerging artists, featuring some of the best jazz, R&B, world beat, pop, and experimental music from Brooklyn and beyond. Now featuring a lounge with furniture provided by West Elm! 8pm opening for bar food and drinks on BAMcafé performance nights. Paninis, salads, snacks, and drinks available at the bar. No table service during BAMcafé Live performances.

THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2007 – 10PM

Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota
Nightlife event at Nomad World Pub
501 Cedar Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN
612.338.6424
FREE!

also at the Spark festival: Morton Subotnik, Richard Devine, Zeitgeist, Zanana, Kristin Norderval, Monique Buzzarté, Pauline Oliveros, Gregory Taylor, R. Luke DuBois, Brad Garton, Richard Dudas, others, plus conference-type things like papers, installations and talks

SPARK festival of Electronic Music and Art

Radio Wonderland in a gallery space usually means you can get as close as you want, I can be as weird as I want, and people don’t dance. But you still can dance if you want to.

This event is sponsored by the intrepid transmission arts organization free103point9, dedicated to all things art in wireless, or wireless in art. My performance will rock the sound system, but be ready to don radio headphones for their trademark radio 4×4, with a sound system you wear and control. It all takes place in a cool Williamsburg gallery, and includes a CD release event for The Dust Dive Flash.

free103point9 performances 2 p.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 4
Black & White Gallery
483 Driggs Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Map

free103point9’s info link

January 7th’s kid-friendly matinee performance has been posted to the web for all ages and sizes to view:

Part 1

Part 2

I wanted to book performances. And now look: a return to LEMURplex, a midwest jaunt, and the inimitable BAM cafe, a place I thought I’d hit in maybe a year. See listings to the right. More in the works, too. I guess it’s true that if you work really hard, there do come….results. Thanks to all, and stay tuned also for Radio Wonderland videos and recordings.

Due to a last-minute cancellation, I have been asked to perform at the beloved HERE Art Center for their annual Culturemart festival (what was supposed to be the grand debut of RADIO WONDERLAND in 2005 before I realized it required another year and a half of work!). The dates are Saturday January 6th with the incredible puppets and dreamy imagination of Kevin Augustine, and Tuesday January 9th with the multi-culti, multi-funny Ex.Pgirl. Both nights at 8:30pm, and tickets and directions are here.

Saturday 6 January and Tuesday 9 January, 8:30pm
HERE Arts Center
45 6th Avenue
(between Spring and Broome)
New York, NY 10013-1548
Entrance on Dominick Street

Come see RW with great lights, great sightlines, great sound, and great staff, who will probably let you dance in the aisles. I’m very pleased to come back HERE.

This is Radio Wonderland’s first-ever musical duet! David First is a virtuoso guitarist, but as a brilliant experimental composer he is more interested in making music than hitting us over the head with prowess. He is famous for his advanced investigations of subtly-tuned drones and the intricate, brutally kinetic rock of his band Notekillers, but I can personally vouch for his ability to funk up the house with rhythm.

We will improvise.

CCi’s Serial Underground
at the Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, NYC
box office: 212-663-1967

Monday January 8
8:30 pm

RW with David First, guitar
also featuring:

*SPIN 17 with Ed Chang and Motoko Shimizu
*a new string trio by Judd Greenstein of Free Speech Zone Productions
*Jed Distler meditates with the Masters

Note that Cornelia Street Cafe UPSTAIRS is really a full restaurant and rather good.

Directions

music charge at the door
$15 music charge PLUS one drink minimum

Special Offer for CCi e-list
if purchased by SUNDAY Jan 7
$10 music charge PLUS one drink minimum

box office: 212-663-1967
All major credit cards accepted

A special kid-friendly show, with 2 fascinating other acts, a moderator, and some kind of play time with the gear. Curated by one of the forces of good in new music, pianist Kathleen Supové.

FREE!
Sunday, January 7 @ 3pm
Music with a View at the Flea presents Family Sunday!

Moderator: Preston Stahly
Nick Didkovsky
Joshua Fried
Ritsu Katsumata

the flea theater
41 white st.
new york, ny 10013
the flea theater is located in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, at 41 White St., between Broadway and Church St., three blocks south of Canal St.

Details

Directions

Due to a last-minute cancellation, I have been asked to perform at the beloved HERE Art Center for their annual Culturemart festival (what was supposed to be the grand debut of RADIO WONDERLAND in 2005 before I realized it required another year and a half of work!). The dates are Saturday January 6th with the incredible puppets and dreamy imagination of Kevin Augustine, and Tuesday January 9th with the multi-culti, multi-funny Ex.Pgirl. Both nights at 8:30pm, and tickets are available here.

Come see RW with great lights, great sightlines, great sound, and great staff, who will probably let you dance in the aisles. I’m very pleased to come back HERE.

RADIO WONDERLAND live in NYC!
at

UNISEX SALON
3 floors of live performance, visual art,
video, installation, and music

Thursday 28 December 2006
at The Delancey
168 Delancey Street
(just East of Clinton Street)
New York City

Showtime: LATE (doors open at 10pm)

FREE with RSVP to Scene Downtown

Suggested dress: Détourné New Year’s cliches vs. classic Noir.

Also appearing: DJ JOHNNY DYNELL, NEAL MEDLYN, and a command performance by Diva AMBER RAY DOMINATION at midnight, along with opening DJ Tikka Masala. Plus a holiday party for the Motherboards, and reigning Miss LEZ Glenn Marla as “NYC’s Hottest Fat Go-Go.”

And….the great PENNY ARCADE (can you recall when Penny performed in Joshua Fried’s Headfone Follies?) will be auditioning performers for THE PUBLIC THEATER’S 365 PROJECT from 10 PM on. Details and audition information at scenedowntown.com.

Admission is free but you MUST RSVP TO UNISEX SALON website
(email registration NOT required).

Thursday nights get a makeover at UNISEX SALON, a weekly performance + art party thrown by James Coppola and Earl Dax. With help from Lia Gangitano of Participant, Inc. – a gallery on Rivington Street – each week at UNISEX SALON features an eclectic array of performance, art and music that echoes legendary NYC clubs and parties like Squeezebox, The MUDD Club, Jackie 60, etc.

This Thursday, 28 December 2006 will mark RADIO WONDERLAND‘s deepest foray yet into the world of nightclubs where people actually dance and talking during the performance is permitted.

RADIO WONDERLAND is intended to go everywhere , but the idea of an artsy party club with a diverse crowd, who might focus on the stage and listen hard, whilst dancing simultaneously, is of special significance. It is essential to the implicit, never-reached RADIO WONDERLAND ideal, which is a performance of course, not a recording, in which the unpredictable radio challenges our credulity that it’s truly the live broadcast (and it IS; ask people who know RW), the performance meets the challenge with instant intuition and 2nd nature skill, and the whole room comes together.

RADIO WONDERLAND live in NYC!
Sunday 10 December 2006, 8pm

-SPLICE- NYC’s eclectic electronic Sundays
at Solas
232 E. 9th Street, betw/ 2 & 3rd Aves.
Admission FREE
SPLICE NYC

The plan was to start gigging anywhere, everywhere and maybe the ball would start to roll by itself. And that seems to be happening. The legend is that Dylan made the rounds of tiny folk clubs, coffee houses, informal gatherings. If I squint and throw in the prefix ‘electro’ here and there, I can fancy myself in similar shoes.