You've reached Joshua Fried, composer, performer, and producer, at joshuafried.com.
If this page looks strange to you, it might be because there are no ads, no tracking and nothing fancy. Just a bunch of links. Like Linktree I guess. Only it's mine.
My old solo project, RADIO WONDERLAND which is still going strong.
The Joshua Fried-They Might Be Giants connection
The derelict site of Joshua Fried, composer
The furiously precise, sometimes funky, sometimes live, always hypnotic NEW PROJECT
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I threw tape-loops on the floor at legendary punk venue CBGB, and put headphones on some of Downtown NYC’s most mercurial stars of the 1990s and 2000s. As RADIO WONDERLAND I perform on a Buick steering wheel, four old shoes played with sticks, boombox, and computer. My work has been performed globally, both by myself and groups like the Bang on a Can All-Stars. I signed with Atlantic Records as a dance artist in the 1980s and became the youngest composer featured in Schirmer Books’ American Music in the 20th Century. I have performed solo at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, La MaMa, BAM, Danceteria, Mudd Club, Joe’s Pub, and le Poisson Rouge (all NYC), in LA, Miami, Tokyo, Berlin, Milan, Paris, and across Europe. As a producer, I worked with They Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan, Ofra Haza, and avant drone-master David First among others. Honors 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. American Composers Forum awarded me two major commissions: for Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and for New York’s League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR). My music appears on the free103point9, Trace, clang, Tellus and Atlantic Records recording labels.
But I’m reinventing myself now with a new label, new style of music, and an urgent need to make urgently hypnotic patterns.