David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom (born September 9, 1947 in Fairfield , Iowa ) is an American musician (piano, violin) and composer who is one of the pioneers of computer music and musical biofeedback .

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Rosenboom studied music at the University of Illinois with u. a. Salvatore Martirano . Early on he dealt with the neurological foundations of musical perception and composition algorithms. He taught from 1979 to 1990 at Mills College , where he was most recently head of the music department, and was then appointed to the California Institute of the Arts . There he served as dean of the School of Music and co-director of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology. He has also taught at the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at SUNY Buffalo , York University in Toronto and the Banff Center for the Arts.

In 1976 his album Brainwave Music was released , on which he used the electroencephalophone to create music from brain waves. As a synthesizer player he worked with Jon Hassell . With Don Buchla he published Collaboration In Performance in 1978 , which u. a. Excerpts from his composition How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims . He accompanied Anthony Braxton as a jazz pianist on his recordings of the Five Compositions (Quartet) in 1986 ; he also played the interactive album Two Lines (1995) with him . His works have been released on albums with New World Records , Mutable Music, EM Records, Centaur Records, Tzadik , Black Saint , Elektra Nonesuch , Frog Peak Music, Nine Winds Records and other labels.

Rosenboom is known as the author of books such as Biofeedback and the Arts and Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System . Together with Phil Burk and Larry Polansky, he wrote the music software HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language). His son is the jazz trumpeter Daniel Rosenboom .

Compositions (selection)

Orchestral works

• 1963 Contrasts , for violin and symphony orchestra
• 1965 Prelude and Dance Fantastique , for symphonic wind orchestra
• 1966 Caliban Upon Setebos (after Robert Browning ) , for chamber orchestra
• 1968 mississippippississm , setting of poems by Emmett Williams for 32 players, recorded noises and conductor
• 1980 In the Beginning V (The Story) , for chamber orchestra
• 1998–1999 Seeing the Small in the Large, (Six Movements for Orchestra)
• 1998–1999 Mood – When the Ground Screams from Seeing the Small in the Large , for chamber orchestra
• 2001 Continental Divide

Opera

• 1994-1995 On Being Invisible II (Hypatia Speaks to Jefferson in a Dream) ; Chamber opera

Web links

• Web presence
• David Rosenboom at Allmusic (English)
• David Rosenboom at Discogs (English)