a r t i s t : David Rosenboom
t i t l e : Brainwave Music
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : EM (EM1054CD)
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2006
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 76,9 MB
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DAVID ROSENBOOM (b. 1947) has been widely acclaimed as a
pioneer in American experimental music since the 1960's. He is
a composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist,
author, educator, has explored ideas in his work about the
spontaneous evolution of forms, languages for improvisation,
new techniques and notation for ensembles, cross-cultural
collaborations, performance art, computer music systems,
interactive multi-media, compositional algorithms, and the
structure of the brain and nervous system. He has composed
extensively for both instrumental and technological media and
plays piano, violin, viola, percussion, trumpet, and live,
electronic systems.
Prior to assuming his current positions in 1990 as Dean of the
School of Music, Co-director of the Center for Experiments in
Art, Information and Technology and Conductor of the New
Century Players at the California Institute of the Arts,
Rosenboom was the Darius Milhaud Professor of Music at Mills
College, where he was also Head of the Music Department and
Director of the Center for Contemporary Music during the
1980's. He taught interdisciplinary subjects at the San
Francisco Art Institute and the California College of Arts and
Crafts and has been a guest faculty member at many
institutions, including the University of Illinois, where he
was appointed George A. Miller Professor in 1995, the Banff
Centre for the Arts, and Simon Fraser University. In the
1970's he was a Professor and founder of the Department of
Music and Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Programme at York
University in Toronto. He taught music and fine arts courses
there, directed performing groups, was Coordinator of
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and
founder and Director of the Electronic Media Studios and
Laboratory of Experimental Aesthetics. In the 1960's he was a
Creative Associate in the Center for Creative and Performing
Arts at the State University of NY in Buffalo, Artistic
Coordinator of New York's Electric Circus, Co-founder of a
research and development company in the electronic arts
(Neurona Co.), worked in commercial broadcast media, and was
an active, independent performer, composer and producer. Prior
to that, he studied at the University of Illinois with such
composers and musicians as Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren
Hiller, Kenneth Gaburo, Gordon Binkerd, Bernard Goodman, Paul
Roland, Jack McKenzie, Soulima Stravinsky, and John Garvey,
and engaged in special studies in physics, computer science,
experimental psychology and multi-media there, at New York
University and independently.
He has a particular interest in interdisciplinary work,
combining the arts. sciences and humanities. He has served as
an advisor, board member and professional affiliate with
national arts organizations in the U.S. and Canada, has
consulted to industry, operated several independent music and
arts publishing and recording organizations and worked in
television, film and video.
He has organized numerous performing groups, including the
performance art group, Maple Sugar, in Toronto (with Manupelli
and Humbert) and the open instrumental ensemble, Challenge, in
Oakland (with Braxton and Winant), and has collaborated with
many leading composers and musicians of our time. His own work
has been presented extensively in Europe, North and South
America and in Japan. He is a conductor emphasizing 20th
century literature and has collaborated extensively with non-
Western musicians. He has developed computer software for
music, was co-designer of a computerized keyboard instrument
with Donald Buchla, the Touche', and is co-author (with L.
Polansky and P. Burk) of HMSL (Hierarchical Music
Specification Language), a music programming language widely
used by educational institutions and individuals. around the
world.
Rosenboom has conducted extensive research into information
processing modes of the brain as they relate to aesthetic
experience and has published two books on the subject,
Biofeedback and the Arts (1976), and Extended Musical
Interface with the Human Nervous System (1990). Two of his
well-known recordings, Brainwave Music (1976) and On Being
Invisible (1977), feature the musical results of this work.
His work is regularly disseminated through publications in
books and professional journals, such as Perspectives in New
Music, Leonardo, Musicworks, Computer Music Journal,
Performing Arts Journal and others. He has received awards and
commissions and has carried out research and creative projects
with support from agencies like the National Endowment for the
Arts, National Science Foundation, Canada Council, the Mellon
and Irvine Foundations, York University, Mills College, the
AT&T Foundation, the Norton Family Foundation, Yamaha
Corporation of America, the Inter-University Consortium for
Educational Computing and others.
http://www.lovely.com/bios/rosenboom.html
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01-Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones [18:43]
(Music from Brains in Fours)
02-Chilean Drought [08:05]
03-Piano Etude I (Alpha) [13:49]
04-Four Lines (Two High) [17:17]
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