Documentaries

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Three Czech Sound Artists

Best Documentary at the Polish
International Film Festival 2019

This film from 2018 is
comprised of interviews with three prominent young Czech sound artists, Jakub Rataj, Lucie Vitková, and Jiří Suchanek, (click names for stand alone documentary versions for each artist.) with work that is experimental, engaging and often provocative.

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Voices of Theresa

Screened at the Wisconsin
Independent Film Festival 2019

Voices of Theresa (2018) consists
of interviews with community members about village history and personalstories. Theresa, Wisconsin, was established inthe late 1840s by the great Solomon Juneau who also founded the city of Milwaukee serving as its first mayor. The project is sponsored by the Theresa Historical Society.

All those interviewed forthis project have strong links toTheresa and tell unique storiesof an extraordinary American village, 170 years old, which has lived much larger than its numbers. It has long been a religiously tolerant community blessed by artists, inventors, risk-takers and optimists set in a land of windmills, drumlins, and the spirits of the Native Americansthey once lived with in harmony.

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Below are links to the video segments of those interviewed, reprocessed media files from the Historical Society Archives, and other documents. A composite video derived from these materials, "Voices of Theresa," is available from the Theresa Historical Society. 

Works of Individual Subjects

Paul Koll
Jim Widmer, part 1, part 2
Warren Feilbach
Micki Polster
Lloyd Musack
Jeanine Streblow
Lester Beck (1995 update)
Evangeline Koll
Bill Musack
Delmar Rahjes
Gerald Beck
Paul Koll (audio)
Jim Polster
Walter Mirk, part 1, part 2,
part 3, part 4

Cassette Recordings
Mrs Beck's Diary '33-40 pt1, pt2
Mrs Beck's Diary '40-46 pt 1, pt2
Cornelius Weber, brewery, '77 pt1, pt2
Cornelius Weber, car tour '77 pt1, pt2

Documents
Friedrich G. E. Ziemer Diary
G. Weber Brewery History
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The Exquisite Risk of
Civil War Brass

This documentary won at the
Divinci Film Festival and was broadcast on Milwaukee Public Television. The
piece documents the First Brigade
Band of Wisconsin from an
unique perspective.

Video Segments
Arrested Development
On a Precipice
Not Terribly Complex
A Well-defined Structure
A Lot of Mean Strength and Awkwardness
Filled with Errors
Tree Shaking
A More Deadly Note
Independence Day
Trim, Trim, Trim
The Blend
By Her Brother's Side
The Paradox
Like An Oatmeal Box
Hearing the Other Way
Pushing Back
In Focus
Touching the Moment
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A House On Jungmannova

This is a Czech language video
narrated in English which documents analytically a portion of an alternative festival held in a large abandoned struction within the city center of
Prague, The Czech Republic.
 
Video Segments
Introduction
The House
White Box Galleries
Do Nothing
Subtle Extension
Ironic Amplification
Imposed Amplification
Onsite Recontextualization
Offsite Recontextualization
Extreme Intervention
Amplified Dissimilarity
Self Referencing
Social Relativity
Radio Jungmann
End
Credits

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Documentation

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  SoundCulture 96

Updated documentation from SoundCulture 96 based in and around San Francisco in 1996. 

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International Space Band
Workshops

Students of all ages are gathered, musicians and non-musicians alike,
for 2 to 3 workshops to learn the amazing lyde instruments. The idea
is to perform these beautiful
instruments in resonant sonic enivironments—malls, churches,
narrow streets, industrial buildings,
stadiums, museums, etc. The
International Space Band in Holland
uses a set of 13 lydes, called a gamelyde, from the original
collection.
Click here to view the ISB at the Van Abbe Museum in Holland.

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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, producer 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 on the aesthetic joust at hand. He is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more)

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