All About RADIO WONDERLAND

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 22, 2022, 5 p.m. (50 minutes).

RADIO WONDERLAND will be performing live at A New Hope. This talk will expose the how and why. As to what, RADIO WONDERLAND pulverizes mass media into little bits that dance; live commercial radio becomes recombinant funk, controlled by old shoes Joshua hits with sticks (he's a drummer) and a vintage Buick steering wheel (he's also a... wheel player). All the processing is live, though his custom Max code. This talk will look at some of that code - which is nicely graphical - and will discuss the place of high-level programming environments such as Cycling 74's Max which often comes with their own low-level escape hatches. But that's just coding - nothing particularly 'hackery' about it. It's what RADIO WONDERLAND does with mass media, live performance, and ordinary objects that seems to tickle hackers and the HOPE community. That will also be discussed here.


Presenters:

  • Joshua Fried
    **Joshua Fried (@radiowonderland)** is known by many for RADIO WONDERLAND’s steering wheel and shoes, others for putting headphones on some of downtown New York City’s most mercurial stars of the 1990s and 2000s, and still others for his collaborations with pop stars They Might Be Giants. In the 1980s, he signed to Atlantic Records as a dance music artist. In the 1990s, he became the youngest composer discussed in Schirmer Books’ *American Music in the 20th Century*. His production credits include Chaka Khan, Ofra Haza, and avant drone-master David First. His recordings have been released by free103point9, Trace Label, clang, Tellus, and Atlantic Records.

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