August 2015 to August 2015
36.5 is Sarah Cameron Sunde’s durational performance with the sea. Sunde stands for a full tidal cycle as water engulfs her up to her neck and then recedes again. Past iterations in Bass Harbor, Maine, Akumal, Mexico, San Francisco, California, and Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.
Composer Joshua Dumas has scored excerpts of the last two performances and created a full 12 hour score to accompany documentation of the Netherlands performance.
August 2014 to February 2015
Based on Margaret Atwood's novella, “The Penelopiad.”
Directed by Erica Barnes
Assistant Director Lexi Saunders
Original Music by Joshua Dumas
Environment and Object Design by Sarah Coleman
Costume Design by Carla Hamilton
Dramaturgy by Sarah Sapperstein
With Mary Jo Bolduc, Jackie Davies, Avery Glassman, Sheena Laird, Genevieve Lally-Knuth, Lynnette Li, Jabu Mickle-Molefe, Nelia Miller, Meredith Montgomery, Katya Schexnaydre, Lisa Siciliano, Carolyn Sinon, Danielle Trudeau, Tamara White
Listen to selections from the score.
November 2013 to December 2014
Drone folk.
Ben Clarke — vocals, guitar
Jim Duffy — drums
Johnny Caluya — guitar
Jordan Martins — bass, steel guitar
Joshua Dumas — keys
Matt DeWine — sonics
Joshua Dumas
October 2014 to November 2014
Expanded and new material based on music composed while in residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center for Lydian Junction's “Born for Nothing,” Oct 2014.
Born for Nothing
directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde
with Dages Juvelier Keates, Oliver Burns, Christopher Berg, Karla Carballar, Tegan Ritz McDuffie, Natalia Roumelioti / ntilit, Joshua Dumas, Anna Kiraly, Laura Mrozkowski.
Composed, performed and recorded (mostly live) by Joshua Dumas, in the Watermill Center's Rehearsal Hall. The Rehearsal Hall, pictured above, has roughly 6 seconds of natural reverb.
Shawn Reddy
October 2009 to November 2014
Eiren’s music comes from her childhood in the wooded hills of Western Mass, where her bohemian parents took her to art galleries, hash parties and Shaker barns. These influences have resulted in her unusual lyricism, strong songcraft and the shy quiet in her longing voice.
Eiren Caffall - vocals, songs, words
Ari Bolles - upright, vocals
Zach Parker - guitar, vocals
Lawrence Peters - drums, vocals
Joshua Dumas- guitar
Slipping the Holdfast now available on vinyl and mp3.
Karla Carballar
November 2014 to November 2014
While in residence at The Watermill Center, Lydian Junction will develop their current work, Born For Nothing, responding to the collection and grounds. On November 1, they will open their rehearsal process to the public and show a draft of the work.
directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde with dance artist Dages Juvelier Keates, composer Christopher Berg, actor Oliver Burns, video artist Karla Carballar, assistant director Tegan Ritz MacDuffie, composer Joshua Dumas, costumer Natalia Roumelioti, and set Anna Kiraly.
August 2011 to August 2014
Noisy droning art rock. Kate Drown (synth), Richard Hwang (bass), Rob Kowalczyk (guitar), Nathaniel Parks (guitar), Joshua Dumas (drums, vibraphone). One release, a triple split cassette on Paramita Tapes with Shapers and Verma.
Reviews — Tiny Mix Tapes, Weed Temple, Foxy Digitalis, Spicer.
March 2014 to July 2014
Using analog, digital, and software synthesizers, Joshua Dumas makes jams for rad space videos about outer space that didn’t used to have any sound or music or anything. They were just silent. Like space is. But now they have synths backing them up.
January 2014
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 by Anne Wells, Chloe McLaren and Doug McLaren, accompanied by the words of Mairead Case and Ed Crouse, and the sounds of Joshua Dumas.
Performances:
Nightingale July 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago March 2014
July 2013
Director: Jerzy Rose
Screenwriters: Halle Butler, Jerzy Rose
Cinematography: Robert Cauble
Music: Joshua Dumas
A sweet and trusting young woman is repeatedly injured in bizarre accidents, but her overconfident boyfriend is far from sympathetic - he's busy playing power games at the university where he works.
Cast: Mike Lopez, Lyra Hill, Ted Tremper, Adam Paul, Buki Bodunrin, Tommy Heffron, Joshua Dumas
Screened at Siskel Center, Slamdance, Atlanta Underground Film Fest
Joshua Dumas
April 2013 to June 2013
A sound and video series.
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. From April 26 - June 14, I recorded a new piece each Friday accompanied by a video experiment.
Now available on cassette from Horror/Fiction Tapes!
Jeremy Bessoff
April 2013
Written, directed: Jeremy Bessoff
Music: Keith Kusterer, Joshua Dumas
Stop-motion animated short explores the stalled domestic relationship of a dysfunctional couple. The characters' descent into the watery abyss becomes a metaphor for examining their relationship darkened by deep emotional turmoil.
Screenings:
London Underground Film Festival, Siskel Center, Nightingale
David Amaral
March 2013 to March 2013
Crime and Punishment adapted as play with music by Kira Obolensky
directed by David Amaral
original music by Joshua Dumas
Performed by Caitlin Costello, Matthew Dealy, Amanda Jane Dunne, David Fink, Hannah Gomez, Mark Plonsky, Eunice Woods, Joe Zarrow, Joshua Dumas, Max Wirt
Performances on March 15, 16, 22 & 23 at 8:00 PM
At Berger Coach House
Kaitlyn Busbee
November 2012 to February 2013
A dancefilm by Fannie Hungerford and Joshua Dumas
Starring Amy Barr, Monica Basile, Elizabeth Bergman, Daisy McKinlay, Nicole Morford, Jennifer Weber, Alicia Weidner.
Cinematography by Kaitlyn Busbee, Chelsea Harrison, Alex Richard
Choreography by Fannie Hungerford, music by Joshua Dumas
Watch the trailer!
Coming Spring 2013.
Kaitlyn Busbee
October 2012 to October 2012
A multichannel sound-and-video installation that explores the history of flooding in Iowa City. First exhibited at Public Space One, October 2012.
February 2012 to May 2012
A dancefilm by Fannie Hungerford and Joshua Dumas
Inspired by the photography of Francesca Woodman
Starring Nicole Morford, with Elizabeth Bergman, Sarah Carusona, Emily Hinkler, Mareva Minerbi, Jennifer Pray, Samuel Summer, Alicia Weidner.
Cinematography: Kaitlyn Busbee, Alex Richard, Joshua Dumas
Production assistance: Katie Hargrave
Choreography: Fannie Hungerford, music: Joshua Dumas