Dylan Bolles is a music composer and performer. He spent 6 life-changing years living in a tent in Northern California with his wife, four children and two dogs. He recently moved with his family to Vermont, escaping the fires and drought, and now resides on a rural, off-grid land cooperative where is he working with farmers, foresters, and interested locals on caring for 600 acres of conserved forestland. He received his Doctorate in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis where he studied inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration and a Taoist chi cultivation system.  He is also a founding member of Thingamajigs Performance Group, a long-running and long-playing composer's collective out of Oakland, California.
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Dylan makes sound and theater works for people and environments. His background in performance includes performance-based collaborations, time-based arts, and sound compositions. He is currently focused on developing energetic relationships with the more-than-human world, and unlocking resonances between tuning theory, the harmonic series, and the sounding body. In these works Dylan has conversations with non-human entities such as streams, caves and trees - sonic meditations on an expansive notion of voice and place. Often, he is unable to perform these works publicly in the locations where they are made, and needs to score them for a dislocated audience. They then become ghost stories about how present bodies can remain connected over seeming distant times and spaces. Sometimes these scores find their way into a graphic form, but mostly they are held in his body memory or crafted into songs.