{"id":7395,"title":"Joshua Fried","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/joshua-fried","version":"3ad7cb0a527acb35f886875b1a3764673fb489059ae4b4f668639f58269e3db4","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:53+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Joshua","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Fried","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Joshua Fried.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/joshua-fried.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7395.ris"},"links":[{"label":"http://composer.home.acedsl.com/","url":"http://composer.home.acedsl.com/","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":2462},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":595}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Joshua Fried emerged from New York\u0027s downtown experimental music and East Village performance art scenes of the 1980s. His full-length HEADFONE FOLLIES completed its 12-week run at HERE Arts Center in 2001 with a rotating cast of sixty-four headphone-driven performers. His collaboration with choreographer Douglas Dunn, Spell for Opening the Mouth of N (featuring eight headphone-driven singer/actors and a dance company of ten), premiered in a sold-out run at The Kitchen, New York, and was one of the highlights of the 1997 Lincoln Center-Out-of-Doors Festival. Fried\u0027s 30-minute Welcome to the Ice-Box, commissioned by Danish Radio and recorded at Danish Broadcasting Corp. studios, recently premiered on Danish Radio and at Sound/Gallery--25 loudspeakers permanently installed in Copenhagen\u0027s main town square. Fried is known for turning technology on its head, challenging its assumptions, while using machines to accentuate the raw human qualities of live events that are unique to the moment. His work partakes equally of minimalism and the rhythmic experimentation of Nancarrow and his followers, as well as contemporary performance art, dance rhythm and sound processing techniques. Fried is also known for his invention The Musical Shoes, four ordinary shoes mounted upside-down on stands and plugged into electronics which are activated by striking the shoes. Fried\u0027s 1986 recording \u0022Jimmy Because,\u0022 with guest guitarist Fred Frith, was released by Atlantic Records. He is re-mix producer on dance records by They Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan and Ofra Haza. Fried is a recipient of numerous awards including a 1994 NEA Composer\u0027s Fellowship, two NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowships, a 1996 Artist Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation\u0027s Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy, and MacDowell, Yaddo and Djerassi Colony Fellowships. His work has been presented at the Bang On A Can Festival, Music Now Prague, New Music America, Lincoln Center, The Israel Festival (Jerusalem), ICC (Tokyo), John Schaefer\u0027s \u0022New Sounds Live\u0022 (syndicated on NPR), ISCM\u0027s World Music Days Warsaw, Caf\u00E9 de la Danse (Paris), Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Podewil (Berlin) and the Dutch Royal Palace, plus New York City venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, the Knitting Factory, The Kitchen, DTW, The Bottom Line, Limelight, Irving Plaza, Danceteria, Here, P.S. 122, Dixon Place and La MaMa Experimental Theater. http://composer.home.acedsl.com/.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":2462,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}