ART ACTIVISM + TECHNOLOGY IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE GLOBALISM
presented by FREE.THE.MEDIA!

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ESTABLISHING DEMOCRACY IN CYBERSPACE AND RECLAIMING PUBLIC SPACE ON THE NET

Netcast LIVE on Saturday March 9, 2002 (7pm-2am EST)
From: Name.Space Lab,
11 East 4th St. 2Fl, New York City

Joshua Fried performs:
RADIO WONDERLAND

RADIO WONDERLAND--ALL of the material will be taken from commercial FM radio broadcasts grabbed LIVE--on the spot--off the cuff--with all due unpredictability--and transformed into musical, funky, patterns right in front of the audience. Featuring Joshua Fried's famous MUSICAL SHOES--four upturned electrified shoes mounted on stands! A sneak preview of his solo project for 2003. Joshua Fried has worked with Fred Frith, They Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan and Ofra Haza, he's performed everywhere from Lincoln Center to Tokyo Japan, and he is the youngest composer to make it into Schirmer's AMERICN MUSIC IN THE 20TH CENTURY by Kyle Gann.

"I focus on the unique, un-repeatable MOMENT. Machines help me exalt the here-and-now of a performance--one that is in some cases live, in other cases recorded. John Cage asked us to open our musical ears wide, so wide that all sound is included. I might be doing the opposite: I'll take any sound and funnel it down to the width that our ears are right now, today. This is why I treat the chance material with the simplest of transformations: framing, repetition, transposition, basic patterning. New Project: use computer, old shoes and giant wheel to transform found bits of live commercial FM radio, into funky, well-built musical structures-- LIVE. Powerbook subverts pop."

--Joshua Fried

JOSHUA FRIED's web page

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