David Rosenboom (born 1947 inFairfield, Iowa)^[1] 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 ofneurofeedback and compositionalalgorithms.

An active teacher, he was Faculty at The Herb Alpert School of Music atCalifornia Institute of the Arts 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 includeJin Hi Kim andGino Robair.

As a young student, he studied (never finishing an undergraduate degree) composition, performance, and electronic music at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign withSalvatore Martirano,Lejaren Hiller,Kenneth Gaburo,Gordon Binkerd, Bernard Goodman,Paul Rolland, Jack McKenzie,Soulima Stravinsky,John Garvey, and others. Working withDon Buchla, he was one of the first composers to use a digital synthesizer.^[2] He has performed at CalArts withTrichy Sankaran.

Rosenboom was married to performance artist and vocalistJacqueline Humbert until 2012.^[3] He has three children from the union — Daniel, Dorothea, and Lindsay.

• 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)[1]
• Life Field (Tzadik, 2012)
• Naked Curvature (Tzadik, 2015)
• Jacqueline Humbert And David Rosenboom:J.Jasmine: My New Music (Unseen Worlds, 2018)

• WithAnthony Braxton
• Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint, 1986)

• Encephalophone

• Zorn, John, ed. (2000).Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary Books/Hips Road.ISBN 1-887123-27-X.
• Liner notes, David Rosenboom'sHow Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims.New World Records[2]
• The Mike Douglas Show. "Brain Music for John and Yoko: John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Chuck Berry with David Rosenboom." 1972.[3]

• 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 withLarry Austin,Robert Ashley, Jim Burton,John Cage,Philip Corner,Morton Feldman,Philip Glass,Joan La Barbara,Garrett List,Alvin Lucier, John McGuire, Charles Morrow, J.B. Floyd (onConlon Nancarrow),Pauline Oliveros,Charlemagne Palestine,Ben Johnston (onHarry Partch),Steve Reich, David Rosenboom,Frederic Rzewski,Richard Teitelbaum,James Tenney,Christian Wolff, andLa Monte Young.

• Official website
• David Rosenboom atCalArts School of Music

• 1947 births
• Living people
• People from Fairfield, Iowa
• 20th-century American classical composers
• American male classical composers
• 21st-century American classical composers
• Musicians from Iowa
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign School of Music alumni
• California Institute of the Arts faculty
• Mills College faculty
• Experimental Music Studios alumni
• 20th-century American male musicians
• 21st-century American male musicians
• Centaur Records artists
• Tzadik Records artists

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