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| Druha Kniha Duration = ci. 1 hour |
drsných tanců od Dana Senna An audiobook of 11 prepared contrabass improvisations, a score & video. |
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The Second Book of Rugged Dances (2024) was made using a rented contrabass performed ruggedly by Dan Senn on September 9, 2000 at Shy Anne Studio in north Tacoma, WA. This, by chance, is the most common birth date in the US. Each improvisation was realized on a prepared contrabass (see preparations in score in notation examples) using a cyclyical bowing technique with its strings tuned to E-natural. The score to the far right describes this method. A video, Gandydancer, is accompanied by the 6th improvisation here also includes the voice of a railroad worker, a telegrapher named Geroge Stephenson, interviewed for an installation and video in Tacoma. Depending on your browser, these recordings are high rez mp3 or ogg files. They are OK for live perforances over a large stereo sound system with the Google Chrome browser delivering the best sound. Files in .wav format are available from rakutoo (at) me dot com. The First Book of Rugged Dances is available here. The score, (m)E, was derived from a work composed in 2000 with video that now embarrasses me. This is a bare bones version without video, stripped crudely of references to the earlier version. The "pinch mic" referred to in the score is made from two a large piezo mics clamped to the bridge of the instrument. Output from the mic was preamped and sent through a device dividing the combined signal into two discreet channels, one delayed by .063 seconds at the same volume and behind the performer on either side. DS020824 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, with his partner-collaborator, Caroline Senn. 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). |
13 Improvisations |
See Full Score ----->(m)E |
