Dan Johnson is a percussionist working in improvised sound and expanded composition. Undermining conventional notions of drumming, their experimental work manifests across a wide range of projects; from eight-hour solo improvisations responding to instructions provided by the audience, to invite-only performances in rail tunnels, lifts and public toilets, to non-hierarchical group improvisation project Ecstatic Drum Beats. Running through this multifaceted output are consistent concerns with balancing chance and control, exposing performer-audience relationships, and the demands of discipline and physical endurance, drawing on a wealth of approaches from Fluxus instructional scores to the work performance artists like Tehching Hsieh, and most of all Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening practice.

Dan is a certified Deep Listening Facilitator with the Centre for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from the University of Sussex, and has been involved with research & development programmes at Stanford University and the Marina Abramovic Institute.
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