Music With A View - Flea Theatre

Joshua Fried performs on a steering wheel and a set of old shoes using radio waves

Category:

Music

Tags:

• experimental
• music
• avant-pop
• avant-garde
• midi
• digital
• radio

[lovedarlingjulie2435]

soooo cool!!!!!!! i love "Music With A View" at The Flea!!!

[yopark5]

I think I'm witnessing a genius of our time!

[YEAHfalconpunch]

this is really great!

are you programming the step sequencers yourself in max or using third party patches/objects?

i recently got into the program, and have found great third party support for these types of things, but haven't gotten enough of a handle on things to build my own from the ground up.

[radiowonderland]

how's this for a delayed response? The shoes have pickups (piezo) which send audio to an old alesis drum unit which does the MIDI conversion. MIDI is then sent to the laptop. In my shows, ALL the sounds originates in the LIVE radio. ALL the processing is in the laptop, by my MaxMSP code. ALL the controllers are MIDI.

[roxyluver]

HAHA THAT'S SO COOL. XD

[kristoffer1989]

Amazing. I have been thinking about using strange stuff as midikontrollers to. And the radio thing. Briliant. How do you get the shoes to send midi signals? Do you have like switches in them and some program that convertes those signals to midi or do you have like drum trigges inside them?

[Xure]

I just KNOW for sure that he can park cars amazingly XD Really terrific!

[astarte59]

Now *that* was fun. Josh and I went to the same high school; it's totally appropriate he's doing this stuff that's weird and funny and cool with a great beat. Awesome! We also went to school w/ Jack Abramhoff. Somehow I think Josh is having a far better career. :-)

[jtnichol]

awesome.....

I wish I could do that....

[radiowonderland]

Thanks! That's ME. All the sounds comes from the radio. All the processing is in the laptop. All the programming is by me. All the controllers are MIDI: shoes, wheel, the MotorMix with faders, knobs and buttons, and two pedals.