David Rosenboom Music and Papers

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Title: David Rosenboom Music and Papers, 1967-2023Add to your cart.

ID: 26/20/255

Primary Creator: David Rosenboom (1947-)

Extent: 0.5 cubic feet

Arrangement: Unarranged.

Date Acquired: 07/11/2022

Subjects: Alumni, Computer Music, Electronic Music, Music Composition

Formats/Genres: Experimental Music

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of research articles, concert programs and flyers, correspondence, and films created by David Rosenboom, documenting his career as a composer.

Biographical Note

David Rosenboom (1947- ) was born on September 9, 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa. At the age of seventeen, Rosenboom attended Interlochen, studying music compostion. This experience inspired him to pursue a an undergraduate degree in composition at the University of Illinois, where he studied with Salvatore Martirano, Kenneth Gaburo, LeJaren Hiller, and Gordon Binkerd. During his time at Illinois, Rosenboom also played violin in the University Symphony Orchestra and the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, studying with Homer Schmidt and Paul Rolland. Rosenboom also studied piano with Soulima Stravinsky, percussion with Jack McKenzie, and conducting with Bernard Hermann. In 1968, Rosenboom transfered to New York University, where he studied experimental psychology with Lloyd Kaufman, George Sperling, Edgar E. Coons, and Les Fehmi. In 1969, Rosenboom left NYU without completing his degree in order to serve on faculty at Intermedia Institute Inc, in New York City, to form the Neurona Music Company with William Rouner, and to perform with LaMonte Young's minimalist ensemble Theater of Eternal Music. 

In 1970, Rosenboom composed his first bio-feedback musical work, Ecology of the Skin. In that year, he was also hired as one of the first music faculty members at York University in Toronto, where he co-founded the music and interdisciplinary studies program. Throughout the early 1970s, Rosenboom explored brainwave-generative music, which resulted in his first book Biofeedback and the Arts, published in 1975. In 1979, he joined the faculty of Mills College, serving as the Darius Milhaud Chair and Director of the Center for Contemporary Music until 1990. In that year, he became a Professor of Experimental Sound Practices at the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts. Between 2020 and 2023, he served as the Roy E. Disney Family Chair of the Institute. Rosenboom was hired by the University of Illinois at four points in his career: in 1969 as a resident composer, in 1977 as a visiting lecturer, and in 1995 and 2022 as the George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Music.

Subject/Index Terms

Alumni
Computer Music
Electronic Music
Music Composition

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: David Rosenboom

Acquisition Method: Gift.


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Folder 1: Articles, Diagrams, 1967-2002Add to your cart.
Materials included: "The Electronic Ear: Electronic Music & Mixed-Media at the Electric Circus," a collection of articles and programs about electronic music, 1967-1968. "HMSL: Hierarchal Music Specification Language," description and order form for publications about HMSL, n.d. Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 12, 2002, David Rosenboom, " Pleasure Has an Opposite, or Somewhere over Whose Rainbow?" Leonardo [Music Journal], Vol. 20, 1986: "Seminar in Formal Methods Series." Model OM1100101 Analog Systems Voltage Controlled Harmonic Generator-Wave Shaper Operating Instructions," n.d. "New Music Across America, ed. Iris Brooks, 1992; articles about New Music include David Rosenboom, ""Interactive Music with Intelligent Instruments - A New, Propositional Music?" Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones II: an electronic brain wave music instrument, design diagrams, 1975. Statement to the readers of "Source," David Rosenboom, 1971."A Tragedy: 'The Triumph of 01674830Iljab'."
Folder 2: Concert Programs, 1966-2022Add to your cart.
Includes some concerts with David Rosenboom as composer, performer or conductor.
Folder 3: Correspondence with University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., 1993-1995Add to your cart.
Consists of letters, emails and concert agreements with the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts related to Rosenboom's visiting residency.
Folder 4: Posters, Flyers, Post Cards and LP Jacket Covers, 1966-2022Add to your cart.
Undated postcards, posters, announcements: (H)Ear Art, Notation in New Music; Brainwave Music; new LP announcement; Laser Paintings announcement; Three Nights of Electronic Music poster; "Making Inroads...," two world premiers for percussion, electronics and keyboard poster; poster announcing Black musical; poster announcing The Music of David Rosenboom; poster announcing "David Rosenboom: On Being Invisible"; record jacket for "Rosenboom & Buchla: Collaboration in Performance."  Dated posters and announcements: poster for "Quincy Summer Symphony" concert, conducted by David Rosenboom and James Hatch, July 20, 1966; LP record jacket (copy) "David Rosenboom & J.B. Floyd with Trichy Sankaran, "Suitable for Framing," 1975; postcard announcing concert "A Living Room at the Bottom of a Lake," March 5, 1977; announcement of David Rosenboom composition publications, 1978; poster for concerts "Contemporary Music at Mills 81/82; poster announcing performances for 82/83 events at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College Music Department, 1981-1982; poster for "Zones of Influence: Percussion and Computer Aided Electronic Instruments," lecture, January 15, 1985; poster for performance "David Rosenboom, Salvatore Martirano plus Five One One," March 23, 1995; postcard announcing program by "Champ Vital (Life Field)," October 22, 2010; announcement of "Propositional Music: David Rosenboom Portrait Concert," October 11-12, 2019. Poster: "Neuromusic: Propositions from Art-Science Convergence," October 3, 2022; poster: "David Rosenboom at UIUC: An Event Series Converging Arts & Sciences," October, 2022.
Item 1: David Rosenboom, Film for Oboe Piece, n.d.Add to your cart.
8 mm film
Item 2: David Rosenboom, Film for Oboe Piece, n.d.Add to your cart.
8 mm film.

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