JOSHUA DUMAS

Joshua Dumas is a composer, new media and sound artist in New York. He scores dance, theatre, and film, composes original music, makes glitch art and digital video, and creates installation and sound art.

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Bad at Goodbyes

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Podcast / Broadcast

Each episode spotlights species on the IUCN Critically Endangered Red List, providing facts and information, as well as original music, a soundscape to contemplate the our relationship to all beings.

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Links: Podcast Home, Subscribe

Location: Electromagnetic Radio, Brooklyn NY

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Mending

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Music group

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.

Collaborators: Kate Adams

Links: Mending, Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Celestial Bummers Forever, Brooklyn NY

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1461 Promises

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net art / sound art

A presidential term is 1461 days long. I have made a promise for every day. I intend to keep these promises throughout the current administration’s term. The project presents these promises randomly in sound and text.

Collaborators:

Links: Project Site

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

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Tired Circuits :: Crude

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research project and music album

Crude is a research and music project that compiles Hazardous Liquid Accident data focusing on eight onshore crude oil pipeline spills that affected rivers and lakes, drinking water, groundwater, and wildlife, in 2021-2022.

Collaborators:

Links: Research, Bandcamp

Location: Dark Swirl, Russell Street Recording, Brooklyn NY

When: Mar 2024

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Tired Circuits :: Bad Waters

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research project and music album

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.

Collaborators:

Links: Research, Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Curséd Pipes, Russell Street Recording, Brooklyn NY

When: Mar 2023

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Best Practices

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Glitch editing for dancefilm

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.

Collaborators: Rebecca Fitton

Links: Rebecca Fitton projects, Etudes

Location: Online, Austin TX, Brooklyn NY

When: Dec 2022

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The Carrion-Feeders [S.2095 115th]

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Glitch Art

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.

Collaborators:

Links: View on Foundation.app

Sample: Video

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

When: May 2022

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Passing Bells, Tall Trees

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Music album

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.

Collaborators: Robbie Hamilton, Matt Dewine

Links: Bandcamp, Instagram videos

Sample: Audio

Location: Evil Pipeworks, Brooklyn NY

When: Mar 2022

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The Carrion-Feeders [Pub.L. 107-40]

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Glitch Art

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).

Collaborators:

Links: Project Research Gallery, View on Foundation.app

Sample: Video

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

When: Oct 2021

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Some Other Maps

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Music Album

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.

Collaborators: David Amaral, Robbie Hamilton, Kate Parks, Kedgrick Pullums

Links: Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Ahriman’s Bath, Brooklyn NY

When: Sep 2021

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Descendings

Dancefilm

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

Collaborators: DZ Maciel, Rebecca Fitton, Fannie Hungerford, Veronica Jiao, Justine Lee, Debbie Mausner, Mor Mendel, Benjamin Roach, Zamora Simmons, Alexis Steeves, Erica Wray

Links: Video Gallery, Trailer

Sample: Video

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

When: Jul 2021

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Sound of Bee, Form of Ghost

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Dancefilm

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.

Collaborators: Fannie Hungerford

Links: Watch the Film

Sample: Video

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY, Iowa City IA

When: May 2021

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Refraction Series

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Glitch Art

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

Collaborators:

Links: View on Foundation.app

Sample: Still

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

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Dance Works Reworked 2016​-​2019

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Music album

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

Collaborators: Kaja Lin, Kate Adams, Dages Juvelier Keates, Alexis Steeves, Elena Hecht, Karla Carballar, Erin Cairns Cella, Natalia Roumelioti, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Whitney Johnson, Josh Bell, Kate Parks, Donna Miller

Links: Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Various, Brooklyn NY

When: Jan 2021

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Winterlight

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music 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.

Collaborators: Dages Juvelier Keates

Links: Dages Juvelier Keates projects, Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Bad Mojo Waterworks, Brooklyn NY

When: Dec 2020

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Some Soothings

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Video broadcast

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

Collaborators:

Links: Watch on Youtube, Info Doc

Location: Soothings HQ, Brooklyn NY

When: Oct 2020

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Blossomings at Cooper Park

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Music album

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.

Collaborators:

Links: Bandcamp

Sample: Audio

Location: Cleft Hoof Plumbing, Brooklyn NY

When: Jul 2020

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The Nothing

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Projections for dance

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.

Collaborators: Dages Juvelier Keates, Erin Cairns Cella, Jascha Narveson, David Glista

Links: Dages Juvelier Keates projects

Location: Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn NY

When: Dec 2019

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HAM's Free Your Flocking Clown 3: USA

Music for dance

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

Collaborators: Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Alexis Steeves, Rain Saukas

Links: Dages Juvelier Keates projects, Triskelion

Location: Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn NY

When: Nov 2016

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HAM's Free Your Flocking Clown: SEX

Music for dance

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

Collaborators: Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Alexis Steeves, Rain Saukas, Claire Astruc

Links: Dages Juvelier Keates

Location: Dixon Place, Brooklyn NY

When: Jun 2016

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Oo Oo

Dancefilm

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

Collaborators: Dages Juvelier Keates, Erin Cairns Cella, Karla Carballar, Natalia Roumelioti

Links: Watch the Film

Location: Undisclosed rooftop, Brooklyn NY

When: May 2016

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