Shuffling 2024 Read "RKM Interviews Dan Senn"	for Kiev (see video) Use headphones to hear more of the work. 4K Video and Stereo Sound by Dan Senn Duration 6:15
Shuffling for Kiev” (2024) was made from two found objects: 1) the video track is from a green lidded glass jar filled with coins, keys, paper clips, airplane toothpaste, etc. and 2) the sound track msfr from an empty Czech beer can pulled from the recycle bin. Both were treated as instruments for improvisation—the videocamera like a percussion mallet rhythmically mapping and "tapping" the rotating jar contents; the aluminum can manipulated with my bare hands. Each performance was edited independently to create "standalone" works (Hear the solo sound track "Plechovka Piva") of about the same duration, this by chance, and then knittd together within a video editor. Also, by chance, the jar’s contents, taken as is, included two packs of stickies banded together that reminded me of the Ukrainian flag—thus the titling.	The can still contained dribblings of stale beer wetting the recording table, this having a pleasant and unexpected effect. The two objects, one internally complex and ever shifting, the other externally complex with an internal varient, were compatible serendipitously. There is no directed meaning in this work. The relationship between the jar with its cracked lid, it’s contents and the leaky beer can, are incidental even if they may arouse meaning in patrons. I like that. And yet I would not combine these unless they seem to worked well together. The two recordings were merged in the way I’ve described in my feax writing "RKM Interviews Dan Senn".  DS 083024.	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). Click above banner to enlarge.