Cortney Groves
February 2005 to present
Pop music group.
Anika Balaconis — horn, keys, vocals
Joshua Dumas — vocals, guitar
Jason Eckerson — bass, vocals
Robbie Hamilton — drums, vocals
Whitney Johnson — viola, keys, vocals
Music composed collaboratively, words by Joshua Dumas
On (real long) hiatus!
Have produced three recordings, Uh-Oh (2006), and To the Other Side (2009) are available for free download at Rock Proper. Grace Notes (2009) is available on our site.
the Captions (4.3MB MP3)
Shawn Reddy
October 2009 to present
Lovely folk music.
Eiren Caffall - lap steel, vox, songs, words
Ari Bolles - upright, vox
Lawrence Peters - drums, vox
Joshua Dumas- guitar, vox
Marla Abrahamik
January 2009 to present
Fuzzy rock of half-heard stories couched in the cacophony of city-din; songs that jump and buzz like missed connections.
Casey Meehan - guitar & vox
Dan Duffy - bass & vox
Jim Duffy - drums
Joshua Dumas - synth
June 2010 to present
Pop!
Paul Nixon - guitar & vox
Crystal Hartford - organ & vox
Joshua Dumas - drums & vox
November 2008 to present
Rock Proper is an online music distributor providing high quality, album-length downloads with the legal consent of their creators. Please download this music, burn it, share it and stay tuned for future releases. Conceived by Casey Meehan, created and maintained by Casey Meehan, Joshua Dumas, Matt DeWine, and Bob Kuo.
Carl Sweets
April 2010 to May 2010
an experimental semi-opera by New Beast Theatre Works
at The Building Stage
Drawing from the spare prose of Raymond Carver’s “Gazebo,” New Beast presents an original opera that spans memory and imagination via prose, song, and dramatic performance.
Devised and Directed by David Amaral
Devised and Composed by Joshua Dumas
Developed and performed by Eddie Bennett, Ruth Bistrow, Pamela Maurer, James Whittington
Please listen to the score at Lamplit Ensemble.
Oh, and check out this really thoughtful review in the Reader! Yow, we were also picked as “Best New Theatrical Form 2010,” again in the Reader.
March 2010 to April 2010
by Madeleine Olnek
Directed by Meghan Beals McCarthy
Produced by Caffeine Theatre
A quirky queer comedy about Emily Dickinson’s secret life.
Director - Meghan Beals Mccarthy
Associate Director/Dramaturg/Choreographer - Jennifer Shook
Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Courtney Miller
Costume Designers - Alarie Hammock & Samantha Umstead
Scenic Designer - Stephen Carmody
Lighting Designer - Casey Diers
Assistant Lighting Designer - Chase Corman
Composer - Joshua Dumas
Cast:
Jessica Bennett, Dana Black, Carey Lee Burton, Annie Calhoun, Amanda Hartley, Ian Novak, Ian Randall, Lauren Vitz
January 2009 to January 2010
Monthly improvised music series featuring members of May or May Not, Notes & Scratches, A Company, Demons, Where the Moon Came From, Black Apple and more.
at the Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee Ave.
Rob Brenner
March 2007 to July 2008
A thirty member choir that covers punk and rock classics completely a’cappella. Founded by Whitney Johnson, Dee Clements and Joshua Dumas. Though its founders have left, the group continues to have terrific success performing through-out Chicago at venues like the Lakeshore Theater, the Hideout Block Party, the Abbey Pub, the Vic, and Millennium Park.
Spanish Bombs (2.6MB MP3) (originally by the Clash)
Joshua Dumas
September 2002 to March 2007
Muted Tones was an online sound and music series curated by Joshua Dumas. Each month, musicians and sound artists were encouraged to produce new, original, ten minute recordings and document their process, progress, and thoughts. Remarkable individuals created absolutely remarkable things, from drone-scapes to found sound collages to folk songs to avant-garde improvisations to chamber music.
May 2002 to September 2006
Casey Meehan — vocals, piano, guitar
Scott Cedro — baritone saxophone
Joshua Dumas — bass
Ben Gray — drums
Mark Benson — drums
Allison Stanley — clarinet
Sarah Renée Bertsch — vocals
Andy Wagner — guitar
All songs composed by Casey Meehan.
Produced one recording Violet, available soon at Rock Proper.
January 2005 to January 2005
A marathon session in which which six songs were written and recorded over two 24 hour periods.
Joshua Dumas — vocals, most instruments, engineering
Anika Balaconis — trumpet, vocals
Domenico Ferri — bass
VJ Hyde — guitar, percussion, vocals
Casey Meehan — vocals
Steve Quantock — violin, vocals
Words and music by Joshua Dumas
This experiment lead to the creation of the current Notes & Scratches group.
Shadow Cast (4.8MB MP3)