Of One
2023

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Video and Sound by Dan Senn

duration 6:50

Of One Mind (2023) was filmed at Riverside Park, Watertown, Wisconsin, on July 24, 2023. It was edited, the sound track performed, at Studio FMEra in the same city. The video is of a bell house constructed in the early 1930s as part of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administraton (WPA). The ediface, still in good shape, was made of field stone, broken chunks of old concrete with mortar raised ornamentally to create highways for insects and platforms for flowers.

 


The title of the work is from a translation of the I Ching into sound using my Lyde instruments. Here Lyconbinate L4345 merges L43 and L45. Within the video, however, L4345 is condensed and integrated into the visual-rhythmic structure of the work.

As a child I played in this building as did my mother before becoming a soldier, along with my father, in the Second World War. The large black ant in the opening frame was checking my credentials. DS 072723
Dan Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. Dan is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more).