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Joshua Nathaniel Reid Ollswang

clinician · researcher · creative builder

Creative Work

compositions · instruments · objects

Chamber Music

String Quartet No. 1

for two violins, viola, and cello

Hesitance, After Patience - Part 1

for cello trio

Hesitance, After Patience - Part 2

for cello trio

Lovers Fall in Love

for harp & two violins

Harp & Pitched Percussion (Soundtrack)

Full Orchestra (Ballet)

(a few favorite dancers from IG)

(read along with a rough—and not-yet-engraved—draft of the score here:)

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Instrument Building - Metalworking

Instrument Building & Piano Composition Variations & Improvisations

Full Orchestra (Soundtrack)

Multiplayer Chess Boards — Applied Geometry & Fabrication

Tessellating non-standard polygons into playable boards for 3+ players.
all boards are designed for full-sized triple weighted regulation Staunton pieces

Chess board design sketch Chess board design sketch
Three-player chess board Four-player chess board Four-player chess board in red Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up

Inspiration

"We are just getting started….[And this work] still needs soul and craft, the human taste in whatever you are building." — Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind
"...be more of an artist, look at things from a different direction, be able to build something unique..." — Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
"I think their rate of discovery could be increased by 10x or more if there were a lot more talented, creative researchers… I think the returns to intelligence are high for these discoveries, and that everything else in biology and medicine mostly follows from them." — Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
Machines of Loving Grace
"Artist-shaped people are going to be incredibly valuable..." — Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir