JOSHUA DUMAS

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

A series of 75 second glitch video portraits of movement artists created during the covid lockdowns.

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.

An NFT gallery of glitch work exploring place through databending, data moshing, pixel sorting and artificial refraction.

Seven pieces original composed for performance and dance, newly unearthed, revisited, reworked, remixed and collected into an album.

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.

A weekly 30 minute livestream broadcast by Joshua Dumas featuring art, poetry, awe, activism, jokes, and ambient music. Produced from July-October 2020.

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.

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.

HAM’s Free Your Flocking Clown 3: USA, with Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Rain Saukas and Alexis Steeves. Sound by Joshua Dumas

HAM’s Free Your Flocking Clown: SEX, curated by Doug Post, with Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Rain Saukas, Alexis Steeves, Claire Astruc. Sound Design: Joshua Dumas

A multidisciplinary collaborative dancefilm exploring ritual, repetition, shape, and space.