About
Composer, performer, producer, Joshua Camp received a Bachelor’s of Music Composition from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. While there he studied classical piano performance with Landon Bilyeu and music composition with Alan Blank and Dika Newlin. During his third year, he studied electro-acoustic composition with Walter Fabeck at Middlesex University in London. His interest in free reed and other little-known instruments began and developed while working at the Hohner company as an accordion and harmonica technician. He moved to New York City in 2ooo and from 2001 to 2003 was the music director for the Lehman College (CUNY) dance department in the Bronx. He has played in projects of various genres over the years, including: country, folk, Irish, klezmer, meringue, and experimental groups as well as composing music for film, dance, theater, commercials, and multi-media installations
As a founder of the group One Ring Zero, Joshua has released six CDs and collaborated with such authors as Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon. The band has received grants from The Virginia Commission for the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. They have appeared on ABC national news, CBC in Canada, and A&E channel’s ‘Breakfast With The Arts’. One Ring Zero’s music has been featured on This American Life (radio and television), Fresh Air, Morning Edition, and The Next Big Thing.
As a commercial composer, Joshua was commissioned by the Indelible advertising agency to write Aczone: The Musical starring Michael Welch (of Twilight fame). In addition to writing the nine songs, he arranged and helped produce the project as well as sang lead on two of the numbers. Indelible has also commissioned Joshua to write six songs for their upcoming campaign for ‘Tinactin: Big Chill’; also arranging, writing lyrics, and singing on one of the tunes.
In 2008, Joshua received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to compose ’8 Prospects’ a contemporary chamber piece inspired by Charles Ives’ Central Park In The Dark.
As an accordionist, Joshua has recorded and performed with the Josh Roseman Unit and Hazmat Modine. He has played with the Foundation of Universal Sacred Music ensemble at Merkin Hall, in the 2005 Broadway production of Fiddler on The Roof, 2006 Broadway production of Threepenny Opera, on the soundtrack to Lincoln Center’s production of Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard, as well as Columbia University’s production of Beggar’s Opera, translated by Vaclav Havel.
You are one talented dude. Found your Hang the Lights last year and have been listening to it since. Never gets boring. A small sign of brilliance in my book.
Please put me on your e-mailing list for upcoming stuff.
Thanks
Dan
Thanks! That’s great to hear. I will definitely put you on my mailing list.
cheers
~Joshua
Hey Josh – shut down my old email years ago but never bothered to save my contacts. Hope you are well. I was late to the Chicha Libre party, but I am now addicted. Wanted to reach out! Cheers -tobias, erstwhile Ringworms drummer