Seven pieces original composed for performance and dance, newly unearthed, revisited, reworked, remixed and collected into an album.
Filtered on "whitney johnson"
99 Julys
Music album
An algorithmic and improvised composition that translates Chicago weather, water, and population data from the last 99 Julys into an ambient underscore with brief melodies representing 2017-1918.
Night Songs for the Birds of North America
Joshua Dumas
Music album, installation
A four-channel audio composition, by Joshua Dumas, exploring translation, memory, and avian mass extinction in the Anthropocene, installed in the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room, curated by Experimental Sound Studio.
belladonna luna sonata
Elissa Shortridge
Music for theatre
A melanchomedy about music, lost love, memory, and literally world-shattering art. Written by Robert Stewart. Directed by Greg Peters. Music by Joshua Dumas.
Chicago Avenue Moon
Mike Piontek
Music app
Chicago Avenue Moon is a responsive, generative music app that uses a set of variables including date, time, phase of the moon, and GPS location, to determine how its music unfolds, in real-time.
Light Waves & Their Uses
Lindsay Verstegen
Music for theatre
Light Waves & Their Uses is a new semi-opera based on the life of Albert Michelson. The original production was created and directed by David Amaral, created and composed by Joshua Dumas.