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Name
  
David Rosenboom

Role
  
Composer


Education
  
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Albums
  
Zones of Influence, Brainwave Music

Similar People
  
William Winant, Anthony Braxton, Michael Byron, Salvatore Martirano

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David Rosenboom (born September 9, 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback, cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms. Working with Don Buchla, he was one of the first composers to use a digital synthesizer.

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He studied composition, performance, and electronic music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller, Kenneth Gaburo, Gordon Binkerd, Bernard Goodman, Paul Rolland, Jack McKenzie, Soulima Stravinsky, John Garvey, and others. He is currently Professor of Music and Dean of the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts.

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He has performed with Trichy Sankaran. His pre-CalArts students include Jin Hi Kim.

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Quotes

"A true music school must return to being a healthy environment for the evolution of music as well as for the teaching of music. In this way, those who study will be most prepared to participate in what is sure to be the multi-dimensional musical environment of the coming decades."

Discography

  • 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)
  • 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) [1]
  • As sideman

  • With Anthony Braxton
  • Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint, 1986)
  • Songs

    Two Lines
    Section VII
    Central Section
    Study for 'Zones'
    Naked Curvature
    In the Beginning: Etude I
    Given the Senses the Real Pregeometry
    Closed Attracting Trajectories: Melody Set 1
    The Winding of a Spring: The Stochastic Part
    The Winding of a Spring: The Tripartite Structure
    Epigenesis - Ontogenesis - Phylogenesis - Parthenogenesis
    The Buckling of a Spring
    Enactment
    Corona Dance
    Station Oaxaca
    Transference
    In the Beginning: Etude III
    Transfiguration
    In the Beginning I:
    In the Beginning: Etude II
    In the Beginning IV:
    Time Arroyo
    Nazca Liftoff
    Desert Night Touch Down
    Nova Wind
    And Out Come the Night Ears
    Closed Attracting Trajectories: Melody Set 2
    Chilean Drought
    Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones
    Naked Curvature: Four Memories of the Daimon
    Trio II
    Hymn of Change

    References

    David Rosenboom Wikipedia