Joshua Siegal - Multimedia and Interactive Arts, Music, Writing

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Water at the Top of the World

My debut children’s book – about inclusion and peace-seeking in a world of colliding mythology and science.

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Win For Losing

Win For Losing is a protest song EP recorded at Audio Bistro, with some guest performers from around the Chicago reggae scene.

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Confessions of an Aphrodite Bug

My short story, “Confessions of an Aphrodite Bug”, published in the Fall 2017 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

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CRA Newserator

Newserator is a custom RSS aggregator that I built to break the filter bubble effect in online news consumption.

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Essay: In Defense of Anti-Science

An essay published in Skeptic Magazine, challenging the scientific-edifice counter-revolution

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FF Draft Mocker

In the world of Fantasy Football, draft prep is everything. Here’s a little tool I built for a friend; it consumes draft position data and helps the user predict their team based on position and depth chart.

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The Red Spot Rhythm Section – Worry: Songs of Homan Freed

The debut album from The Red Spot Rhythm Section. Future psychedelic folk!

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Review: David Bowie Is

Review of the David Bowie Is show at the MCA Chicago, featured in Whitehot Magazine

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N^ The Game

N^ is an original board game, currently in play testing. It combines the worlds of geopolitics, cellular automata, and spatial strategy.

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the Morphtet

the Morphtet is a piano trio based around the concepts of acoustic interaction and melding barrlehouse with polyrhythms.

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The Opposition Party

The Opposition Party delivers vintage afrofunk sounds with energy and fidelity driven by 4 horns, multiple percussionists, and a tight, grooving rhythm section.

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Dancing At The Revolution

Overture and Curtain music from the EP Theatre production of Michael Bettencourt’s play. I also did sound design for the play, and produced the recorded music.

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Fluids – A Vector-Based Particle System

Designed to go along with live musical performance, this vector field particle simulator takes keyboard controls from an operator and can be used from a laptop-projector hookup in a performance space.

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Mt Greenwood Sound Sculpture

This original musical sculpture series was created by Jim Brenner and Jacob Worley-Hood for a new park in Mt Greenwood. I participated in the inaugural performance as a percussionist and co-produced the recording.

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Bride of Acacias

Sound and Video for the theatrical production at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago. The play was a cathartic biography of Iranian film pioneer Forough Farrokhzad, written by Iranian expat Ezzat Goushegir and directed by Dana Friedman.

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Review: Chipaumire & Mapfumo at the MCA

A review of the multimedia / dance / music collaboration between Nora Chipaumire and Thomas Mapfumo at the MCA in Chicago; published in Whitehot Magazine

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BiPolar Bear – Rainbarrel

Painted Rainbarrel for the Recycle the Raindrops artist project.

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BRCA Code Animation

Regenerating bit of code art animation created for the Arts of Courage Project 2013 Fundraiser.

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Fire In The Belly

Painting created for the Arts of Courage Project 2013 Fundraiser.

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Shorts

Mini fiction and poetry, RSS style

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Review: In Decay: Stitching America’s Ruins

Review of Eric Holubow’s photography exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center; published in WhiteHot Magazine.

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Music and Movement Series

Music and Dance Suite at Mayne Stage, part of the 2011 Chicago World Music Festival

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Transistor Radio Interview

Excerpt from my April 11 Transistor Radio Roundtable interview with Rani Woolpert.

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Flowering Open

A visual application to provide a meditative focus point for expecting mothers practicing breathing and visualizations.

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Window Gazing

A narrative interactive video installation that uses physical metaphors for the tactile experience of memory.

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Review: Temple Exercises

Review of a performance piece by Theaster Gates at the MCA Chicago; published in Whitehot Magazine

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Review: Chris Ware at Carl Hammer

Review of a show at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, featuring blue line works of Chris Ware in all their bare-pencil, emo splendor; published in Whitehot Magazine

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Stride Natty Stride

A stride version of one of my Marley favorites, rendered in solo piano.

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Educational Development: See-Saw

Part of the Educational Development interactive media installation, the See-Saw was a real life see-saw that took the viewer on a trip through some ups and downs of educational manipulation.

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Educational Development: Chalkboard

Part of the Educational Development interactive media installation, this piece featured a lesson in the history of compulsory education, drawn on the chalkboard by an “invisible hand”.

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Lament Of The Water Bug

Poor water bug – his life is tough and he knows it…and he wants you to know it, too. This character held forth in the Inns of Virginia showing, taking up residence in his usual habitat – the commode.

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PixelScythe

Palette generator that works by computing hex values. HTML / PHP based, including some random functionality. Click away and soothe your eyes.

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Jesus Saves Burger King

An acoustic-electric mashup of signage collected from throughout the city, created in a structured improvisational format.

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in progress

N^ The Game

N^ is an original board game, currently in play testing. It combines the worlds of geopolitics, cellular automata, and spatial strategy.

The Morphtet

The Morphtet is a trio focused on transmutating new standards and classics into a barrelhouse-funk-reggae hybrid.