Fairfield, Iowa
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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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An active teacher, he was Faculty at The Herb Alpert School of Music at
California Institute of the Arts
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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.
As a young student, he studied (never finishing an undergraduate degree) composition, performance, and electronic music at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Kenneth Gaburo
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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 ...
New World Records
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Rosenboom was married to performance artist and vocalist Jacqueline Humbert until 2012. He has three children from the union — 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'' (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
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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
Anthony Braxton
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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, Robert Ashley, Jim Burton,
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Steve Reich
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Richard Teitelbaum
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James Tenney
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La Monte Young
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