Radio Wonderland
07-12, 23:30–00:30 (US/Eastern), Little Theatre

HOPE regular Joshua Fried aka RADIO WONDERLAND gives a taste of his new musical project combining furiously precise phase patterns with performance art, talks about his long disdain for gesture controllers, and explains why he is now using them anyway. Along the way he'll surely touch on Max For Live (Cycling '74/Ableton).


It's become a HOPE ritual to dance to the live cut-up radio grooves and spinning Buick steering wheel of Joshua Fried's signature solo act, RADIO WONDERLAND. Fried has remixed They Might Be Giants and partnered with John Flansburgh in the '90s duo Hello The Band. His music has been performed on many continents, by himself and by the likes of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. In the 80s he signed to Atlantic Records as a dance music artist. In the 90s he became the youngest composer discussed in Schirmer Books' American Music in the 20th Century. Fried has performed solo at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, La MaMa, BAM, Danceteria, Mudd Club, CBGB, Joe's Pub, and le Poisson Rouge (all NYC), in LA, Miami, Tokyo, Berlin, Milan, Paris, and across Europe. Fried's awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo and Bellagio. Fried earned two large commissions from American Composers Forum: to create live music for Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and to compose for the robotic instruments of New York's League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR). Other production credits include Chaka Khan, Ofra Haza, and avant drone-master David First. Fried's recordings have been released by free103point9, Trace Label, clang, Tellus and Atlantic Records.