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.

A dance film conceived by and starring Elizabeth June Bergman. Directed, filmed, and edited by Kaitlyn Busbee. Directorial assistance from Mark Stastny. Music by Joshua Dumas.

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.

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

Dages Juvelier Keates creates a performance work on Elizabeth Tubergen’s sculpture Invert in a sound environment by Helene Kazan with a score 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.

Joshua Dumas, in collaboration with Sarah Cameron Sunde, creates a sound bath for Bloch: a 200 year old tree trunk that Swiss arts duo Com&Com have been touring the globe with since 2011.

Independent feature film directed by Scott Foley, written by Foley and Josh Rosenberg, starring Maya Boudreau with music by Joshua Dumas.

A melanchomedy about music, lost love, memory, and literally world-shattering art. Written by Robert Stewart. Directed by Greg Peters. Music by Joshua Dumas.

Based on the novella by Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad tells the story of Penelope, the dutiful wife of wily Odysseus, as she reflects on her life and the events of The Odyssey from beyond the grave.

Eiren Caffall’s music draws on her childhood in the wooded hills of Western Massachusetts, resulting in her unusual lyricism, strong songcraft and the shy quiet in her longing voice.

Expanded and new material based on music composed while in residence at the Watermill Center for Lydian Junction’s “Born for Nothing.”

Hamlet. Reimagined for a prohibition-era Chicago. Directed by Lavina Jadhwani. Music by Joshua Dumas.

Remixed Workshop of Caryl Churchill’s Hotel. Directed by Erica Wray. Music by Joshua Dumas

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.

A guided meditation and expanded cinema event. Amateur and industrial films from Chicago Film Archives, edited by Christy LeMaster, come alive through a three projector performance with words by Mairead Case and Ed Crouse, and music by Joshua Dumas.

2014 independent feature film directed by Jerzy Rose, written by Rose and Halle Butler, staring Mike Lopez, Lyra Hill, and Ted Tremper with music by Joshua Dumas.

Some mornings, when I am very lucky, I get to start my day at the piano. I’d been writing these small rough sketches that sort of feel like nocturnes, but since I work early, I’m calling them matinals.

Stop-motion animated short explores the stalled domestic relationship of a dysfunctional couple. Written, directed by Jeremy Bessoff. Music by Keith Kusterer, Joshua Dumas.

Crime and Punishment adapted by Kira Obolensky, directed by David Amaral, music by Joshua Dumas

A multichannel sound-and-video installation that explores the history of flooding in Iowa City.

With a ghostly narrator, an orchestral score, three clowns (one of whom sings arias) and a variety of storytelling conceits, New Beast looks back on 20th century America in their third semi-opera.