Radio Wonderland RADIO WONDERLAND turns live radio into recombinant funk. All sounds originate from an old boombox, playing radio LIVE. All processing is live in MaxMSP. My controllers are a vintage steering wheel, old shoes on stands, and some gizmos. You'll hear me build grooves, step by step, out of recognizable radio, and even UN-wind my grooves back to the original source. I want to show that we ALL can interrupt and interrogate the endless flow. So my transformations are clear and simple--mostly framing, repeating and changing pitch. My controllers are simple: the wheel just a knob to twirl, the shoes just pads to hit. Using these ordinary objects underscores the absurd disconnect between digital controller and sound, as well as the congenial nature of the aural transformations themselves. So, too, my riffs must be vernacular and not elite. (We need the funk.)

BIO

The youngest composer to appear in Schirmer Books' *American Music in the 20th Century*, Joshua Fried has worked in experimental music, electronic dance music, performance art, rock and pop. He has performed solo at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, CBGB, a Stuttgart disco, a former East Village bathhouse, a Tokyo museum, and the Royal Palace of Holland; art rock guitar giant Fred Frith soloed on Fried's first disk, and Fried has produced or co-produced records by They Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan and avant-drone master David First. He is a recipient of numerous awards including two New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowships, a National Endowment for The Arts (NEA) Composer's Fellowship and artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, Djerassi and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. Fried won 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). Fried's solo project *Radio Wonderland* uses a steering wheel, old shoes and laptop to turn live radio into
recombinant funk. http://radiowonderland.org