Education: D.M.A.
and M.M. Music Composition (ceramics minor); University of
Illinois at Urbana '85, '76; B.S. Music Education, University of
Wisconsin at LaCrosse '74.
History: Director, Echofluxx Media Arts Festivals '11-,
independent artist, Watertown/Prague 2012-,
Director, Newsense Intermedium, Tacoma, WA
'93-'00; Associate Professor of Music, Ball State University '87-92;
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Composition, University of
Illinois, Urbana '86; Lecturer in Electronic Music, Canberra School of
Music, Australian National University '80-84.
Selected Presentations/Events: Echofluxx 24, director-producer, Roulette Gala Committee Honoring Jim Staley's 45th Year, Co-Chair, NYC June 6, '24, Near the Garage", video with stereo sound at Ji.hlava New Visions Market Videotheque '23, Experimental Films, '23, SKOP Presentation, Frankfurt '24
Premiere Rus Wall for video and stereo sound, at SeenSound November '23, Melbourne, Australia, Interview (in Czech), Český rozhlas (Czech Radio) by Ladislav Železný with David Danel, September '23, Premiere V Češtině at Music of Other Minds, KALW Broadcast 745, San Francisco '23, Echofluxx 23, director-producer, Premiere Free Range at SeenSound March 23, Melbourne, Australia, Echofluxx 23, Prague '23, Opening of Gasworks Studio, Holešovice, Prague '23
SeenSound, Melbourne, Australia, Performance of video and stereo sound '22, SKOP Festival, Computer Music 4, University of Frankfurt, September 9, '22, Echofluxx 22, director-producer, Prague, CZ, Tin Pan Salvo, live electronic improvisation '22, Heavy Glass On Granite, Light for piano and fix media, '22, The Great Migration for video, text and live electronic improvisation '22
Echofluxx 21, director-producer, Prague, CZ, Dan
Senn's Lyde Instruments, article by Jason Baker, RHYTHM! SCENE,
vol.6 no.6, '19, Space Band presentation by
Petra and Mario at Instruments Make Play, The
Netherlands '19, Setkávání Nové Hudby Plus,
Live performance and film, Brno, CZ, '19, The
Christo Effect, documentary film, The Polish International Film
Fesival, Warsaw, PL '19, Voices of Theresa,
documentary film, Indie Wisconsin Film Festival, Wisconsin '19, Its Mirror, for solo flute, Cascadia Founder's Concert, Portland, OR '19, Site
of Sound, Intermedia Performances by Dan Senn, Truckenbrod Gallery,
Oregon
State University, Corvallis, OR '19, Intermedia performance, Pacific
Lutheran University,
Tacoma, WA '19, SeenSound,
"Wasteland" and "Comic Pizza", experimental video, Melbourne, Australia
'19, The
Never Close, performance
by the Ensemble for These Times, San Francisco, Chelsea Hollow (soprano) and Taylor Chan (piano) '19, Michael Pratt, Exploring
the Modern Solo Snare Drum Tradition Through Analyzing Five Snare Drum
Solos, Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona 19
SeenSound,
"Sleight of Hand", experimental video, Melbourne, Australia '18,
University of Texas, lectures, concert, San Antonio '18, Four Psalms
Modal, Jonathon Babcock conductor, Texas State
University, San Marcos
'18, Wakushoppu,
audio-film performance, Prague '18, Hudebni 3,
Experimental Films and Music, Prague '18, The
Christo Project, Three Czech Sound Artists, documentaries,
Prague/New
York City '18, Voices of Theresa,
documentary, World Premier, Theresa, WI '18
CDBaby Releases, Lyconbinates I, Approaching Ališka, Four Psalms Modal,
'17, The Nobal Snare, Peeping
Tom
(1988) for snare drum and voice, 2nd Edition Concert, performance
by Alexandros Fragiskatos (ASU), University of Akron '17, Approaching
Ališka, for video and fix media, Echofluxx '17, Seven
for Piano, performances by Caroline Senn (world premieres), Watertown and Beloit, WI
'17, Bay
Psalm 23 and Bay
Psalm 121, performance by Kühnův smíšený sbor, National Museum-Czech
Museum of Music, Lenka Navrátilová,
conductor, Prague '17, Skidmarks,
for trombone and fixed media, performance by Simone
de Haan, Sydney, Australia '17
Four
Psalms Modal, recording, Kühnův smíšený sbor, Lenka Navrátilová,
conductor, Prague '16, Kinetic Cowboy:
Rin-Tin-Tinnabulations, (news
release),
exhibition of video and kinetic sound sculpture, DADS Galerie,
Liberec, The Czech Republic '16, SeenSound
Screening: Best of 2015, Men
and Boats with the
Nunique
Quartet '16, SPEaster Reflex (Easter
Reflections) for trio and fixed media, Red Door
Theatre Group, Watertown and Beloit, Wisconsin '16
Audio
Art Festival, Kraków, Poland '15, Musique
Concrete, Klub Rybanaruby, Prague, experimental film and live
improvisation '15, LaCrosse New Music Festival,
UW-LaCrosse, Craig Hultgren
performing, "Into
the World," for 'cello and fix media, world premier '15, SeenSound
Visual/Music Series, "Just After, Looking
Back," Melbourne, Australia '15, SKELETON
PIANO PIECES "Just After, Looking
Back," BODYVOX, Portland, OR '15, Art Walk Sound Art Workshop,
Watertown '15, Artistic/Technical Director, Sound Recording for vs.
Interpretation, Agosto
Foundation '15, Sound Art Workshops & Performance, Studio 84,
Watertown '15, SPEaster
Reflex for 3 percussionists and fixed media, Red Door
Theatre Group, Watertown '15, Body Sung
Electric, Agnieszka Laska Dancers, Portland State University,
Oregon '15, Sound Art Workshops, Prairie Music School, Sun Prairie
'15, Sound Art Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Intermedia
Classes '15, Composition Lecture, Maranatha Baptist University '15,
Euterpe Music Club, lecture-presentation, Watertown '15, "Close,
Then Far" for two flutes
played by Elizabeth Robinson & Tammy Evans-Yonce, Kansas State University & South Dakota State University
'15, Between a Rock
and a Hard Place, McCormick
Percussion Group, CD release of "Rivus,"
Ravello Records '15
NACUSA National Conference, read
paper, Georgia State University, Atlanta '14, Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
performance by Dan and Caroline Senn '14, MEX,
Dortmund, Germany performance by Dan and Caroline Senn '14, Birke
Symposium "Art in the Information Age," Marshall University, sound
art/video installations and 3 concerts of Dan Senn's Works '14, WDR 3 (Radio):
Studio Elektronische Musik: "The Catacombs of Yucatan" '14,
University of Wisconsin Whitewater New Music Festival 2014,
performance, "Skidmarks"(1982)
for trombone and fixed media, played by J. Michael Allsen '14, Seensound: Visual Music Series, Back Room,
performance, video and live electronics, Melbourne, Australia '14,
Echofluxx 14, performance, "Its Mirror"
for flute, Prague '14
PNEM
Sound Art Festival, Space Band w/Petra
Dubach & Mario van Horrik, workshop, performance, Uden, The
Netherlands '13, Flipside Gallery, Space
Band w/Petra
Dubach & Mario van Horrik, performance, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands '13, Visual/Music, Back Room, performance, A Chattering Field, video and live
electronics, Melbourne, Australia '13, Intermedia
Arts and Experimental Music, residency, Metropolitan State University,
performance with Caroline Senn,
Minneapolis '13, Dan Senn's International Space Band w/Petra
Dubach & Mario van Horrik,
Inkijkmuseum, Eindhoven, Holland '13, Echofluxx Ensemble, Echofluxx 13,
Prague, "A Crackling Field" for video and 5 performers '13, IN/OUT
FESTIVAL: Laznia
Contemporary Museum of Art, Gdansk, Poland, performance with Caroline
Senn
'13.
Art
Centre Signe, (h)ear
festival #2, "The Art of Sound," workshop, Dan Senn's
International Space Band, presented by Mario van Horrik and Petra
Dubach, Heerland, The Netherlands '12, Gallery AT, Poznan, Poland, "Breaking Apart," sound-video
exhibition with Caroline Senn '12, van Abbemuseum,
International Space Band w/Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands '12, Doe-de-Dommel,
International Space Band w/Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik,
Dommel, The Netherlands '12, Arts Powered Summer Institute, College of
Idaho, sound workshops, Caldwell, Idaho '12,
Echofluxx 12, Dam Patch, Dog Barking,
performance, Prague, '12, Spring Concert, Micro-Dramatic Songs from Prague II,
performance, Portland, OR '12, de Overslag, Dan Senn's International Space Band,
performances & workshops, Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands '12, Visual/Music, Back Room, performance, Short Rail, Dog Barking,
performance, Melbourne, Australia '12.
EchoFluxx11, International Space Band, Prague '11,
Unitaria, Prague, performances '11, From
Different Points, Mumma's Incredible
Sinking Violin, and Knocking
Heads with Kafka, world premiers, Školska Galerie, Prague '11,
Galerie ve Sklepě, kinetic sound installation, Prague '11, In Just
Spring: Cascadia Spring Concert, world premiere of Cycling China for Gamelyde 2,
Portland ''11, Winter Light, world premiere of On a Long Thin Table, music for the
Angnieszka Laska Dancers, Portland '11, PNCA,
lecture, Portland '11, Cherry Blossom Musical Arts, world premiere of Micro-Dramatic Songs
from Prague II, Eugene, Oregon '11.
Les
Petits Chanteurs, world premiere of "Lillian" for SATB boys choir, Port
au Prince, Haiti '10, Cascadia Composers, world premiere of "Close,
Then Far" for 2 flutes, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon
'10, "Cycling China," kinetic sound installation, residency,
Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University '10, Birke Fine Arts
Symposium: Giving Voice: Social Justice in the Arts, video, Marshall
University, West Virginia '10, Princeton University, Composition
Colloquium, lecture '10, Musical Instrument Museum, Civil War band
video, Phoenix '10, NACUSA National Festival, Portland, world premiere
of "Prague
Songs," Portland '10.
10th Anniversary New Music
Festival, performance, exhibition, UW-La Crosse '09, Floating Points
Festival, Issue Project Room, performance, New York City '09, Princeton
University Composition Colloquium, lecture '09, Academy of Performing
Arts (HAMU), lecture, Prague '09, Prague Academy of Arts, residency,
Atelier Kurt Gebauer, Hradec nad Moravici '09, Atelier Libusin,
residency, Libusin, Czech Republic '09, Fear No Music, premiere of Cartwheels, Old Church, Portland, Oregon '09,
Alexander Gallery, exhibition, lecture, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City '09, New
York Virtuoso Singers, world premiere of S(H)e
Visits Me, St. Ignatious Episcopal, New York '09.
UMBC New Music Ensemble, Peeping
Tom, Baltimore '08, House of Art, Dvanáct bláznivych ptákü, Bludny
Kámen Opava, exhibition, Czech Republic '08,
Zahrada mrtvych zón, Prague, video installation/documentation '08, Fine Arts
Academy, workshop, Münster, Germany '08, Atelier Libusin, residency,
Libusin, Czech Republic '08, Montserrat Gallery, installation, Beverly,
Massachusetts '08, Portland City Building, installation,
Portland '08, Auzten
Gallery, exhibition, Portland State
University, Oregon '08
Caged (1980) for Fairlight CMI (12:10), 25th Anniversary Celebration,
Electro-Acoustic Music Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee '07,
Miller Fine Art Center Gallery, installation, Linfield College, Oregon
'07, Walters
Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro,
Oregon, installations, lecture, film presentation '07, 4th
International Biennale: Vestiges of Industry, panelist, workshop, Prague '07,
Creatures in The City of Jeroen Bosch, s'Hertogenbosch, Holland, Space
Band Project '07, Důl
Mayrau, installation, Kladno, Czech Republic '07,
Space Band Project, C.U.B.A.-Culture, Muenster, Germany '07, Asian
Pacific Art Center, Tacoma, installation 07, Christine Donnell School
of the Arts, Boise, Sound Art Workshops '07, "A
House On Jungmannova," Wisconsin Film Festival,
Madison, premiere '07, Portland Art Center, installation '07
International Space Band Project, workshops, performance, Walters
Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon '06, Idaho Art Commission
Workshops, Boise '06, 4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival, installation,
Prague '06, Lublin Theatre, performance '06, Gallery AT, exhibition and
lectures, Poznan, Poland '06, Roulette Intermedium, Location One, New
York City, performance '05, NoD, video and lyde performance,
Prague, Czech Republic '05,
International
Space Band Project, Portland, Prague, Kladno '05, Jump Start,
residency, Oregon State University, Corvallis '05, Los Angeles County
Museum of Arts, EAR Unit '05
New York City Public Library, Met Opera
Percussionist performance '04, world premiere of M & M in E,
Marshall University, West Virginia 04, Jail Installation, Basin Jazz
and Art Festival, Montana Artist Refuge '04, Percussion Workshop,
Portland State University '04, Composer Profile, Hubert Steins
(producer), Berlin Radio '04
Oregon State University, residency '03,
University of York, England, lecture '03, Center for Contemporary Art,
Prague, Czech Republic, performance, workshops '03, Kunstakademie,
Muenster, Germany, lecture, performance, '03, Bunkier Ztuki (City Art
Gallery), Krakow, Poland, performance '03, Music Academy (CEM), Krakow,
Poland, lecture '03, Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium, performance,
lecture '03, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Germany, Installation
'03, Quiet Music Cultivation, Tacoma, performance '03,
da Vinci Film and Video Festival, film
screening, Winner of da Vinci Award, Corvallis '02, Cornish
College of the Arts, installations-workshops, Seattle '02, The Glass
Museum, workshops, Tacoma '02, Evergreen State College, lecture,
Olympia '02, "The Exquisite Risk of Civil War Brass," Milwaukee Public
Television '02, The Art of Documentary Film, University of
Washington-Tacoma '02, RTR-FM Melbourne, Australia, "Toons After Noon"
'02, Diapason Gallery, exhibition, New York City, 2001, University of
Minnesota at Moorehead, residency '01; Son et Lumiere: Volunteer Park
Archeologies, Seattle, exhibition '01; 2000-2001 Artist Lecture Series,
University of Minnesota, Duluth '01; Gallery 400, Chicago, installation
'01; Stewart Middle School, residency '01
Charles Wright Academy, installation '00;
Nature Consortium, Seattle, installation '00; Bellevue Art Museum Film
and Video Festival, Washington '00; 18th International Sculpture
Conference, Houston, panelist '00; Port Angeles Fine Art Center,
sculpture park installation '00; Jason Lee Middle School, residency
'00; Acoustic Animation, Arizona State University, installation '00.
University of Wisconsin, New Music Festival,
La Crosse, performance, lectures '99; Metropolitan State University,
St. Paul, performance '99; Roosevelt University, Chicago, lecture '99;
Northwestern University, Evanston, lecture '99; University of
Wisconsin, Whitewater, performance, lectures '99; Artspace, Seattle,
installation '99; On The Boards, Seattle, performance '99; Port Angeles
Fine Art Center, performance '99; Tacoma Art Museum, performance '99;
Canberra National Multicultural Festival, Australia, performance '99;
Commence Art Gallery, Tacoma, video installation '99; Webster School,
residency '99.
Experimental Intermedia, New York City,
performance '98; Metamedia Centre, Hermit Foundation, Plasy, Czech
Republic, performance '98; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, performance
'98; Oregon State University, Corvallis, performance, lectures '98;
Paper 7 Festival, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany, installation
'98; Kästrich Galerie, Mainz, Germany, exhibition '98; Commencement
Gallery, Tacoma, video installation '98; University of Washington,
artist-in-resident, Tacoma '98; Sonic Circuits V International
Festival, UW-Tacoma, installation '98.
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis and Chicago,
video '97; Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, exhibition '97-98;
Percussive Arts International Conference, Los Angeles, installation 97;
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, installation '97; Pete's Pool Sound and
Video Installation, Enumclaw, Washington, installation '97; Sonic
Circuits IV International Festival, Tacoma, performance '97; Point
Defiance Promenade, Tacoma, outdoor installation '97.
Audio Art Festival, Warsaw and Krakow,
Poland, performances '96; Washington State History Museum, Tacoma,
sound and video installation '96; Point Defiance Promenade, Sound
Garden, permanent installation '96; Whitman College Art Department,
Walla Walla, Washington, residency '96; First Night, Tacoma, sound and
video installation '96; Falkirk Cultural Art Center, San Francisco,
sound and video installation '96.
Red Eye Theatre, Minneapolis, performances
'95; Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, residency '95, McKnight
Foundation Fellowship, Spring Grove, Minnesota, sound and video
installation in rural cave '95; Spokane Contemporary Arts Alliance
(InterPlayers), performance '95; Philadelphia Nexus, installation '95;
Moltkerei Werkstadt, Cologne, performance '95; Alte Feuerwache,
Cologne, performance, '95; Feedback Studio, Cologne, performance '95;
Den Andern Opera, Copenhagen, performance '95; Het Apollohuis,
Eindhoven, Holland '95; C.U.B.A.-Culture, performance, Muenster,
Germany '95; MeX, Dortmund, Germany, performance '95; Cultereel de X,
Leiden, Holland, performance '95; Penny Loucas Gallery, Tacoma, sound
and video installation '95.
Roulette Intermedium, New York City,
performance '94; First Night, Tacoma, sound and video installation '94;
Open Space, Victoria, B.C., performance '94; Center On Contemporary
Arts, Seattle, installation '94; Penny Loucas Gallery, Tacoma,
installation '94; International Soundwatch Festival, Auckland, New
Zealand, performance '94; Waikato Museum of Art, New Zealand,
performance '94; Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, performance
'94; Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, performance '94;
Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, exhibition '94; Elam School of Fine Arts,
Auckland, New Zealand, lecture '94.
Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, performance
'93; First Night Tacoma, installation '93; Wall of Sound, Seattle,
exhibition '93; University of Illinois, Krannert Center '92; New Music
Across America, Cleveland, performance '92; Sylvia Smith Collection
Opening, University of Akron, installation '92.
Selected Awards and Grants: Installation Grant, Portland Building, RACC '08, Honarary
Mention, New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Competition '08, Professional
Development Grant, RACC '07, Special Projects Grant, RACC '05, da Vinci
Film Festival, The Spirit of da Vinci Award for The Exqusite Risk
of Civil War Brass '02, King County Arts grant for Son et Lumiere:
Volunteer Park Archeologies '01; Washington State Arts grant for art
documentary at Stewart Middle School, Tacoma '01; Seattle Art
Commission development grant '00; Sound Transit development grant '00;
Washington State Arts Commission grant for residency at Jason Lee
Middle School, Tacoma '00; Greater Tacoma Community Foundation grant
for 6X3 Festival '99; First Prize, Papier 7: Electric Paper, Leopold
Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany '98; Tacoma Cultural Resources grant for
6X3 Festival '98; Washington State Arts Commission sculpture
commission, University of Washington-Tacoma '98; The Greater Tacoma
Community Foundation grant for 6X2 Festival '97; Artist Trust 10th
Anniversary President's Award, Seattle '97; MetroParks Design Team
Award for Sound Garden Installation '97; Tacoma Cultural Resources,
Cultural Tourism Award '97; King County Public Arts Commission grant
for Pete's Pool Sound and Video Installation '96; King County Radio
Arts Festival commission for radio piece, KUOW, Seattle '96; Artist
Resource Bank, Washington State Arts Commission '96-97; Special
Projects Grant, Tacoma Arts Commission '96; On the Boards (NEA)
commission for Waterdriven Canopy Lyre, Seattle '97; Tacoma Parks
District grant for Sound Garden Installation (permanent) '96; Pierce
County Arts curatorial grant for First Night installation '95, McKnight
Foundation Fellowship for rural residency, Minnesota '95; Tacoma Arts
Commission grant for International Connection workshop '95; Tacoma
Cultural Resources grant for 6X Festival '95.
Published Scores: Cartwheels, piccolo and
orchestra bells, Smith Publications '04, Ah ONE, vibraphones
and bass violin, AM Percussion Publications, '93, Peeping Tom, voice
and percussion, Sonic Arts Edition, Baltimore '88; Rivus, For Any Three
Treble Instruments in the Same Key, Smith Publications, Baltimore, '85.
Published Articles: Dan
Senn's Lyde Instruments, article by Jason Baker, RHYTHM! SCENE,
vol.6 no.6, '19, Pendulum-based Instruments, Percussive Video, Sound Art, and
the Permanence of Ephemeral Public Art, Organized Sound, England,
Summer '98; The Catacombs of Yucatan Sound and Video Installation,
Minnesota Composers Forum Newsletter, Vol.23, No.1 '96 (reprinted in
the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, January '96); Sound Art and the
International Connection, Cultural Resource Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4
'95; Systems for Non-Linear Instruments and Notation, Journal of New
Music Research, September, Amsterdam, Holland '94; Non-Linear
Instruments, Experimental Music Instruments, California, two parts '93;
The Raku Composition Program, Interface, September, Amsterdam, Holland
'91; Music Up Close, Puchong Gallery Notes, Winter '90; Standard
Performance Practice, Soundsculpture and Scrapercussion, Percussive
Notes, Research Edition, Autumn '83; The Application of Microcomputers
to Music Composition as a Compositional and Clerical Tool, ICMC
Proceedings '81, North Texas State University, Denton '81.
Recent Articles/Dissertations about Dan Senn: Interview
by Michael Karman of Assymetry Music Magazine,
March 2017, “Analysis of Dan Senn's
'Peeping Tom" by Jason Baker,
Percussive
Notes, January '12, The snare
drum as a solo concert instrument: An in depth study of works by Milton
Babbitt, John Cage, Dan Senn, and Stuart Saunders Smith, together with
... Stockhausen, and others, dissertation by Jason Colby Baker
'05, Senn and the Art of Acoustic Sculpture, MyRoad, March 5, '01,
Outside the music 'museum,' by Jen Graves, The News Tribune, Tacoma,
April 22, '01; Zones of Magnified Power: Site Specific Sound Art, by
David Means, PublicArtReview, Vol 11, #2, Spr-Sum '00.
Selected Audio Recordings: CDBaby Releases, Lyconbinates I, Approaching Aliska, Four Psalms Modal,
'17, Between a Rock
and a Hard Place, McCormick
Percussion Group, CD release of "Rivus,"
Ravello Records '15, The Sound We Are
Now, Aphasia Recordings, Ireland '07, The Noble Snare, "Peeping Tom"
performed by Jason Baker, 11 West Records '05; Black Kids, White Man
and Static, Gallery 400 release '01; The Catacombs of Yucatan, Periplum
Records '98; Experimental Musical Instruments, Vol. VIII and IX, EMI
'93, '94; Music and Texts, private '91; Scrapercussion Improvisations,
private '89; Australian Computer Music, NMA Records, Melbourne,
Australia '83.
Selected Collections: Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle (sound sculpture),
Metro Parks-Tacoma (sound sculpture), University of Washington-Tacoma,
sound sculpture; Sylvia Smith Archives, University of Akron, Ohio
(scores, videos and instruments) '92-, University of
Wisconsin-LaCrosse, ceramic sculpture collection; Gallery Schüppenhauer
Collection, Cologne.
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