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The Fourth
Duration = ci. 45 minutes
 		Book of Rugged Dances by Dan Senn
An Audiobook of 15 improvisations by Dan on handmade instruments*.

The Fourth Book of Rugged Dances (2026) by Dan Senn is a collection of 15 long and short works from 1988-2000 primarily improvised at Shy Anne Studio in Tacoma, WA. The works are listed and briefly described below and then presented in the middle column.

01 Late Takes for Scrapercussion and audience-thrown coins, 1988, Muncie, Indiana.
02 Four Bells Turning recorded in Tacoma, WA, using Dan's Lyde Instruments.
03 Es Ist So Einfach Zu Sterben named from Carl Schurz's last word before passing. This was improvised on a Shmoos Harp by Dan.
04 Thoroughfare was improvised on a
Shmoos Harp by Dan.
05 Waiting for improvised Fayfer Harp.
06 Reasoning for improvised Shmoos Harp.
07 Hovering for improvised Shmoos Harp.
08 The Approach improvised Shmoos Harp.
09 Close Call for improvised Shmoos Harp.
10 Whistling Through Shmoos Harp improv.
11 Big Brown Lyde for single 8" lyde.
12 Hissy Fit one Lyde Instruments
13 Bipolar Bird Cage for a simple installation at the Cornish College of the Arts Seattle.
14 Ms Schlei improvised on a Fayfer Harp.
15 m(E) for prepared bass fiddle with
4 strings tuned to E-natural. *Pretend bass was handmade especially with the preparations used to make this work.

These recordings are high rez mp3 files and adequate for live perforances over a large sound system with the Google Chrome browser delivering the best controls. Files in wav format are available at rakutoo (at) me dot com.

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, Prague. (more).


 
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The banner photo above is a look out of Dan's
Studio FMEra in Watertown, WI, on
January 12, 2024.


       		
      
      



  
 
 

      
Shy Anne Studio, Tacoma, WA (below)