Mending is a collaboration between songwriter/vocalist Kate Adams and sound artist/musician Joshua Dumas, creating drifting dreamy noisy songs, influenced by folk, lo-fi, ambient, contemporary classical and electronic dance music.
Tired Circuits :: Bad Waters
Bad Waters is a research project and music release which aggregates data from academia, watchdog groups, the EPA, the U.S. Treasury, and the finance sector to draw connections between top water polluting companies and taxpayer funds.
A Wandering Daydream
A sound art, broadcast experiment created by new media artist and musician Joshua Dumas. Each episode features a stereophonic field recording of a walk, interspersed with music, poetry, and chit chat.
Best Practices
A ten minute dance film by Rebecca Fitton. A satirical take on the presence of democracy’s performance in her work as a “dance maker.” Dance, diagram, audio description and sound layer in a machine-processed edit. Video/sound glitch code by Joshua Dumas.
36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea
In 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013-2022), Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for a full tidal cycle as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The 12 hour video documentation is scored by Joshua Dumas.
The Carrion-Feeders [S.2095 115th]
A series of data corrupted portraits of U.S. Senators detailing the career campaign dollars they’ve received from the gun lobby. Minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain.
The Witches
Playwrights Horizons Theater School presents: The Witches. Written by: Agnes Borinsky. Directed by: Orion Johnstone. Music and Sound Design by: Joshua Dumas
Passing Bells, Tall Trees
Nine song album of lo-fi beats. Each groove is a tribute, a celebration, a memorial for a North American tree species threatened by climate change, logging, habitat loss, and invasive insects or disease.
The Carrion-Feeders [Pub.L. 107-40]
A series of five 20 second digital videos with sound, built from extensive research that link the major weapons manufacturers with the largest Department of Defense contracts to over 28,000 civilian casualties during the Global War on Terror (2001-2021).
Some Other Maps
New music derived from the lost score to David Amaral and Joshua Dumas’ 2012 anti-war semi-opera about PTSD, dementia, ghosts, and love, called “Here are Lions.” Music by Joshua Dumas with Robbie Hamilton, Kate Parks, and Kedgrick Pullums.
AM Higgins
Annie Meredith Higgins is an American songwriter living in France. She writes dream-like songs that nudge you a bit closer to the cosmos when you hear them. AM Higgins: vocals, keyboards // Jason Toth: drums // Joshua Dumas: electronics
Leaf on Water
Commissioned performance inaugurating the opening of Little Island. Sarah Cameron Sunde collaborated with performers and community members to investigate the forces and structures that stand between or connect us to water. Music by Joshua Dumas.
Descendings
A series of 75 second glitch video portraits of movement artists created during the covid lockdowns.
Sound of Bee, Form of Ghost
A dance film by Fannie Hungerford & Joshua Dumas exploring elders, mothers, femme power, desire, death, and the mantra of the 64 Yoginis through dance, digital animation, and words.
Refraction Series
An NFT gallery of glitch work exploring place through databending, data moshing, pixel sorting and artificial refraction.
Dance Works Reworked 2016-2019
Seven pieces original composed for performance and dance, newly unearthed, revisited, reworked, remixed and collected into an album.
Winterlight
An eleven track album of music, poetry and practice for the winter solstice. Text and performance by Dages Juvelier Keates, music/mixing/mastering by Joshua Dumas.
Some Soothings
A weekly 30 minute livestream broadcast by Joshua Dumas featuring art, poetry, awe, activism, jokes, and ambient music. Produced from July-October 2020.
Blossomings at Cooper Park
Five song, pandemic lockdown-era, ambient grooves. A springtime of continuous sirens. For grief and release there were walks to the northeast, and headphones, piano, synths and mbira to shelter my nest.
Becoming Ocean
Essay film by Eiren Caffall and Scott Foley that connects Caffall’s chronic kidney disease with sea-level rise. Music by Joshua Dumas.
The Nothing
Washed up and in a post-solar-storm, Dages Juvelier Keates and Erin Cairns Cella as E/D dance a place turned into a repetition compulsion. Score: Jascha Narveson. Text: Dages Juvelier Keates. Lights: David Glista. Video projections: Joshua Dumas.
Peaks
Peaks is an ongoing, cumulative video work in which Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas reuse the detritus of the built environment to construct brief cinematic moments suggesting iconic mountainous vastness.
Contact/Crisis
A commissioned duet between Dages Juvelier Keates and Alexis Steeves as part of L’intrus, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens. Sound by Joshua Dumas.
36 Peaks at Baryshnikov Arts Center
A condensed and reworked version of Joshua Dumas’ score for a work-in-progress performance of Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas’ 36 PEAKS at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
Tender Etceteras
A collection of misplaced piano and synthesizer pieces from 2013-2018, by Joshua Dumas.