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 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.

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.

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.

Playwrights Horizons Theater School presents: The Witches. Written by: Agnes Borinsky. Directed by: Orion Johnstone. Music and Sound Design by: Joshua Dumas

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Essay film by Eiren Caffall and Scott Foley that connects Caffall’s chronic kidney disease with sea-level rise. Music by Joshua Dumas.

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.

A commissioned duet between Dages Juvelier Keates and Alexis Steeves as part of L’intrus, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens. Sound by Joshua Dumas.

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.

A collection of misplaced piano and synthesizer pieces from 2013-2018, by Joshua Dumas.

A bold new theatrical adaptation of Virgil’s epic Latin poem The Aeneid for the turbulent world in which we live by Oliver Kemeid. Directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Music by Joshua Dumas.

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.

Shakespeare’s The Tempest, set outdoors in nature in a promenade performance. Directed by Erica Wray. Music by Joshua Dumas.