David Rosenboom
David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Rosenboom has explored various forms of music, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, multi-disciplinary composition and performance, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media, new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. He is a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback and compositional algorithms.
David Rosenboom
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- 1947 · Fairfield.
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- United States
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- conductor · pianist · composer · pedagogue · musicologist · violinist · percussionist · musician
- Education
- University of Illinois System · Experimental Music Studios
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David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Rosenboom has explored various forms of music, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, multi-disciplinary composition and performance, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media, new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. He is a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback and compositional algorithms.
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David Rosenboom (born 1947) is a composer, conductor and musician, among other activities, of American nationality. The composer was born in Fairfield.
David Rosenboom was educated at Experimental Music Studios and University of Illinois System. The composer worked for California Institute of the Arts.
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• With Anthony Braxton • Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint, 1986)
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David Rosenboom was born on 9 September 1947.
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An active teacher, he was Faculty at The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts from 1990 to 2023, and before that taught at other institutions such as Mills College, York University, and the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York in Buffalo. His students include Jin Hi Kim and Gino Robair. Working with Don Buchla, he was one of the first composers to use a digital synthesizer. He has performed at CalArts with Trichy Sankaran. Rosenboom was married to performance artist and vocalist Jacqueline Humbert until 2012. He has three children from the union — Daniel, Dorothea, and Lindsay.
• Suitable For Framing/ Is Art Is/ Patterns for London (A.R.C., 1975) • Collaboration In Performance (1750 Arch, 1978) • A Live Electro-acoustic Retrospective (Slowscan, 1987) • Systems of Judgement (CRC, 1991) • Two Lines (Lovely, 1996) with Anthony Braxton • Brainwave Music (A.R.C., 1976 - EM, 2007) • Future Travel (Street 002, 1981 - New World, 2007) • How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims (New World, 2009) • Life Field (Tzadik, 2012) • Naked Curvature (Tzadik, 2015) • Jacqueline Humbert And David Rosenboom: J.Jasmine: My New Music (Unseen Worlds, 2018)
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- 1.David Rosenboom biography. adagio.calarts.edu.
- 2.Brown, Chris. "David Rosenboom’s Future Travel". Liner notes to David Rosenboom: Future Travel. New World Records.
- 3.ROSENBOOM, DAVID VS HUMBERT-ROSENBOOM, JACQUELINE. UniCourt.
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- Zorn, John, ed. (2000). Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary Books/Hips Road. .
- Liner notes, David Rosenboom's How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims. New World Records http://www.dramonline.org/albums/david-rosenboom-how-much-better-if-plymouth-rock-had-landed-on-the-pilgrims/notes
- The Mike Douglas Show. "Brain Music for John and Yoko: John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Chuck Berry with David Rosenboom." 1972. http://davidrosenboom.com/media/brain-music-john-and-yoko
- Zimmerman, Walter, Desert Plants – Conversations with 23 American Musicians, Berlin: Beginner Press in cooperation with Mode Records, 2020 (originally published in 1976 by A.R.C., Vancouver). The 2020 edition includes a cd featuring the original interview recordings with Larry Austin, Robert Ashley, Jim Burton, John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Joan La Barbara, Garrett List, Alvin Lucier, John McGuire, Charles Morrow, J.B. Floyd (on Conlon Nancarrow), Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine, Ben Johnston (on Harry Partch), Steve Reich, David Rosenboom, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young.
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