Two
2023
by Dan Senn
Chooks
Duo for Alto Recorders
Duration = 5:06

Two Chooks (2023) was composed in Prague in 2010 for two flutes and largely rewritten in Watertown, Wisconsin in early March of 2023. The present iteration was composed for the Vox Venti duo comprised of recorderists Cindy Cameron and Caroline Senn. A chook is a chicken in Australia.

 

To assist learning this diffiult work, a score video with sound is presented below along with  two audio only versions, one with a click and the other without. Stream or download these for playback over an iPhone or iPad-like device. Here is a PDF
of the score.

Score video without click
Audio only with click
Audio without click


Dan Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an intermedia/fluxus 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).