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) 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
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and compositional
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s.
He is currently the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition in The Herb Alpert School of Music at
California Institute of the Arts
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, where he served as he dean from 1990 to 2020. He has also 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 pre-CalArts students include
Jin Hi Kim
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and
Gino Robair
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.
As a student, he studied composition, performance, and electronic music at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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with
Salvatore Martirano
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,
Lejaren Hiller
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,
Kenneth Gaburo
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Life
Gaburo was born in Somerville, New Jersey. He served as a professor of music at the University of Illinois, the University of California, San Diego, and the Un ...
Paul Rolland
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, Jack McKenzie,
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, John Garvey, and others. He played the viola on the on the 1968 premier release of Terry Riley’s In C. Working with
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, he was one of the first composers to use a digital synthesizer.Brown, Chris "David Rosenboom’s Future Travel" Liner notes to ''David Rosenboom: ''Future Travel'.
New World Records
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.
Rosenboom was married to performance artist and vocalist
Jacqueline Humbert Jacqueline Humbert is an American recording, performance and visual artist, as well as a designer for film, television and live performing arts. Under the name J. Jasmine, she recorded a song cycle, ''J Jasmine: My New Music'' (with collaborators Da ...
, and they were divorced in 2012. He married Nicola Voss on December 19, 2014.. He has three children, including Daniel, Dorothea, and Lindsay.
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
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'' (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 (
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, 2012)
*Naked Curvature (Tzadik, 2015)
* Jacqueline Humbert And David Rosenboom: ''J.Jasmine: My New Music'' (Unseen Worlds, 2018)
As sideman
*With
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*''
Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986
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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
New World Records is a record label that was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres. *''The Mike Douglas Show.'' "Brain Music for John and Yoko: John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Chuck Berry with David Rosenboom." 1972
Further reading
* 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,
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, Jim Burton,
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,
Philip Corner
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,
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,
Joan La Barbara
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,
Garrett List
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, Alvin Lucier, John McGuire, Charles Morrow, J.B. Floyd (on
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),
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,
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),
Steve Reich
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, David Rosenboom,
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Richard Teitelbaum
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James Tenney
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CalArts
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