2020
Rock Album vol. 1 | Randy Lee Cutler
2020: Mineral Collection at the Biennale of Sydney 2020, NIRIN
Sound Design, effects and tone by Joshua Stevenson
https://randyleecutler.bandcamp.com/album/rock-album-vol-1
https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/randy-lee-cutler/
“Rock Album vol. 1 was a commissioned artwork for the Biennale of Sydney NIRIN 2020. It is a series of sound works that explore deep time, extractivism and mineral medicine among other rock related themes. Set to an ambient soundtrack each of these spoken word pieces collapses scientific, industrial, philosophical, spiritual and informal knowledge practices into new mineralogical arrangements.
The album explores the presence of minerals in our daily environments and their profound but often unacknowledged effect on our experiences. The project maps the physical structures, geographies and biological effects of minerals, showing how they work as the invisible building blocks of our bodies and technologies. Rock Album (Overburden) represents a geological dig across a physical-metaphorical spectrum connecting and rupturing familiar meanings and assumptions. This approach encourages a non-linear encounter with crystal formations from the past, present and future to better contemplate our human interactions with these earthly deposits.”
2019
Wax Cylinder Audio Recording Restoration | Franz Boas
1930, Kwag’uł village of Tsaxis (Fort Rupert), British Columbia
Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art
University of Washington, Seattle
Audio transfers from Project IRENE, Using optical scanning to digitize ethnographic field recordings on wax cylinders.
Sound restoration and mastering by Joshua Stevenson
“The films and audio recordings are a significant treasure of the project to have that glimpse into 1930 in Fort Rupert. …They’re a part of our collective history and belong to all of us as Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw and we need to bring them back to life.” – Tommy Child
On his last trip to the Northwest coast in 1930, noted anthropologist Franz Boas and George Hunt created audio and film recordings of crafts, games, and dancing in 1930 in the Kwag’uł village of Tsaxis (Fort Rupert), British Columbia. Boas was deeply interested in the expressive forms of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw culture, and even late in his career was still collecting material for a never-finished study of rhythm and gesture.
Boas brought with him a 16 mm camera and wax cylinders for sound recording to Fort Rupert, where he worked with Hunt and other members of the extended Hunt, Knox, and Wilson families. Boas and his Kwag’uł collaborators made 51 minutes of short films showing technology, games, and speech-making, and a variety of hereditary dance privileges—most of which are still danced today, while others have passed out of use.
2019
Spill Radio | Curated by Tatiana Mellema
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
University of British Columbia
Sound production and editing by Joshua Stevenson
https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/spill-radio/
“Spill: Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast that anticipates, extends and enriches the themes of the Spill exhibition.
This project engages radio as a site for the relational study of ecosystems and their processes that register the hyper-financialization of the biosphere’s resources. Destabilizing vision as the privileged mode of understanding, Spill: Radio seeks to practice ways of listening to the intangible, the submerged and the sensuous in order to imagine and think with our world more complexly. By attending to sites of extraction with artists, writers and community organizers, Spill: Radio considers ways that the transformation and contamination of the environment are connected to universalizing settler-colonial logics, and the emergent possibilities of collectively listening.”
2019
Deanna Bowen | A Harlem Nocturne
Multichannel sound design and mixing by Joshua Stevenson
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
“A Harlem Nocturne” presents still and moving images extrapolated and translated from archival sources, featuring a newly commissioned video project drawn from Deanna Bowen’s research into histories of Black community within Vancouver.
https://cagvancouver.org/exhibition/deanna-bowen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvThtdp4620
2019
Hydro Techno | Kevin Schmidt | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound design by Joshua Stevenson
“In search of your synthetic wilderness, artist Kevin Schmidt puts a spin on planned obsolescence for an audience of none.”
https://www.facebook.com/nfb.ca/videos/333361547281682/
2018
Feminist Land Art Retreat: Free Rein
Audain Gallery – Simon Fraser University
Multichannel post-production sound and installation by Joshua Stevenson
https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/audain-gallery/past1/FLAR-Free-Rein.html
2018
The End of the Road
Documentary film
Directed by Tai Uhlmann and Theo Angell
Sound mix by Joshua Stevenson
The End of the Road: documentary explores history of Lund, B.C. | CBC News
2018
Shin-chi’s Canoe
Film
Sound design and mix by Joshua Stevenson
https://movingimages.ca/products/shin-chi-s-canoe
2018
Hunting Self | Prophecy Sun
Arts Commons presents the +15 Soundscape
15 channel surround sound mix by Joshua Stevenson
Hunting Self is a 15-channel sound piece that was recorded live and in one take using smartphone technology. The sound quality reflects the desired immediacy of the performance as well as evoking a dream like aesthetic through it’s lo fi properties.
https://artscommons.ca/whats-on/2018/hunting-self/
2017
In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art
Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks,
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Sound recording, sound design and multichannel installation by Joshua Stevenson
https://moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/in-a-different-light-reflecting-on-northwest-coast-art/
2017
c’əsnaʔəm, the city before the city
Documentary Film
Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Sound design, mix and score by Joshua Stevenson
A feature film on the 9,000 history of land which is now known as Vancouver. Made in partnership with Musqueam First Nation, the film was part of a larger exhibition put on in partnership with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the Museum of Vancouver and the Musqueam Cultural Centre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U_psONZVWM
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7690166/
2017
Slam By Me
Film by Alana Paterson
Unbound series by Vice and Vans
Sound mix by Joshua Stevenson
https://video.vice.com/en_ca/video/slam-by-me/5952b7755a82e1315977772b
2017
Hungry Month of March | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Music soundtrack by Joshua Stevenson
http://hungry.nfb.ca/
2017
George Hunter – Legacies 150 Stories | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound editing by Joshua Stevenson
http://legacies150.nfb.ca/george/
2017
It Might Break Your Heart – Legacies 150 Stories | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound editing by Joshua Stevenson
http://legacies150.nfb.ca/heart/
2017
Inside Insite | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
360° video soundtrack by Joshua Stevenson
https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/inside_insite/
2016
Abandoned
10 episode television series for Viceland Channel
VICE Media
Sound design & re-recording mixer for whole series
2015
c’əsnaʔəm, the city before the city
Exhibit
Museum of Anthropology
University of British Columbia,
Sound designer, location sound and multichannel sound installation by Joshua Stevenson
The Museum of Anthropology, the Musqueam First Nation, and the Museum of Vancouver partner on a groundbreaking exploration of an ancient landscape and living culture in a series of exhibitions entitled “c’əsnaʔəm, the city before the city.”
https://moa.ubc.ca/exhibition/c̓əsnaʔəm-the-city-before-the-city/
2014
Seances | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Pre-production sound design for the Guy Maddin and NFB project.
http://seances.nfb.ca/
2014
Seven Digital Deadly Sins | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound design by Joshua Stevenson
Joint NFB and The Guardian UK project.
http://sins.nfb.ca/
2014
Shunt | Khan Lee
Multichannel location sound recording and surround mix by Joshua Stevenson
Kamloops Art Gallery and Instant Coffee Artist Collective
https://vimeo.com/114198398
https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/shunt?rq=shunt
2014
Withering Heights
Sound design for the short film.
2014
Roar
Sound design for the short film.
2014
From Ritual
Music score for the short film.
2013
Kabul Portraits | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound design by Joshua Stevenson
“Kabul Portraits offers an alternative perspective, by challenging the concept of portraiture to investigate a few Kabul residents that have focused their lives around the notion of storytelling.”
http://kabulportraits.nfb.ca/
2013
Radio Free Stein
Sound design and dialogue recording by Joshua Stevenson
For Dr. Adam Frank’s audio production of Gertrude Stein works
University of British Columbia
http://www.radiofreestein.com/plays/for-the-country-entirely/
2013
Take Me Home
Knowledge Network
Music composition for the Ryan Cochrane” & “Michael Green” shorts films by Joshua Stevenson
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/take-me-home
2012
Bear 71 | NFB
National Film Board of Canada
Sound design by Joshua Stevenson
“Bear 71 is a 2012 award winning interactive National Film Board of Canada web documentary by Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes about a grizzly bear in Banff National Park who was collared at the age of three and was watched her whole life via trail cameras in the park.”
http://bear71.nfb.ca/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_71
2010
Beyond The Black Rainbow
Film
Music mix by Joshua Stevenson
“Beyond the Black Rainbow is a 2010 Canadian science fiction film written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, his feature film debut. The film stars Michael Rogers as Dr. Barry Nyle. It was produced and filmed in Vancouver, and premiered at the 2010 Whistler Film Festival. It also showed at several film festivals throughout 2011, including Tribeca in New York City and Fantasia in Montreal.”
https://www.netflixmovies.com/beyond-the-black-rainbow
2008
Some Mad Scientists
Musical audio drama
Sound Design, dialogue recording and mix by Joshua Stevenson
Some Mad Scientists is a ninety-minute radio play, or musical audio drama, written and produced by Adam Frank, with music by Sam Shalabi. “The script is adapted from an ancient Greek text that depicts the laughter of mad science for what may be the first time. Its guiding question is: what would a science look like that included the full emotional range of the scientist in what counts as knowledge?”
http://www.somemadscientists.com/
Full IMDB Film Credits
http://www.imdb.com/name/JoshuaStevenson