NEW & RECENT CD RELEASES

New Double CD Released

A new, first ever, complete documentation of all sections of this historic piece from 1969, How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims, was released in May 2009 by New World Records on a double CD set. An amazing group of artists has contributed to this recording, including Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla), Vinny Golia (winds), Aashish Khan (sarode), Daniel Rosenboom (trumpets & co-production), David Rosenboom (piano, electronics & co-production), I Nyoman Wenten (Balinese instruments), William "Willie" Winant (marimba & Balinese instruments), Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick (cellos), two progressive rock/new music/metal bands from Los Angeles, Plotz! & DR. MiNT, master recording engineer, John Baffa, piano technician, Alan Eder, and others. A 28-page booklet is included with informative and stimulating essays by Chris Brown and Sande Cohen.

Long out of print in its original, 1981 LP version from Street Records, Future Travel, has now been released again, re-mastered for digital media, by New World Records (80668-2). All the music composed and performed by Rosenboom from this historic album is included, along with a new version of And Out Come the Night Ears, which was first introduced on an LP from 1750 Arch Records in 1978. One of the first albums composed almost entirely with a digital synthesizer, Future Travel, features the Touché, a pioneering, digital keyboard instrument from Buchla and Associates. Rosenboom's performances on piano, violin, percussion, spoken texts, and the Buchla 300 Series Electric Music Box are also featured. The CD booklet includes an informative article by composer, Chris Brown, about the history of this music and its instrumentation.

Brainwave Music (2006 Edition), this historic album originally released on A.R.C. Records in 1976 has now been re-released in Japan by EM Records, 1054CD. This new edition contains the original tracks, Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones (Music from Brains in Fours) (1972), Chilean Drought (1974) and Piano Etude I (Alpha) (1971) along with a brand new track, Four Lines (Two High) (2001). An extensive booklet is included with the CD containing program notes and photos documenting these pieces and Rosenboom's related experimental music activity, particularly emphasizing the 1970s.

Bloodier, Mean Son, the debut album of the young trumpet virtuoso, Daniel Rosenboom, is now out on Ninewinds Records, NWCD 0238. This extremely dynamic CD contains a remarkably diverse collection of great new trumpet works, all world premiere recordings, by composers Daniel Rosenboom, Vinny Golia, David Rosenboom, Derrick Spiva, Jr., Michael Pisaro and Nick Didkovsky.

WIRE magazine CD of the year!

Suitable for Framing, on April 19th, 1975, at Northern Illinois University, three musicians, David Rosenboom and J.B. Floyd, pianos, and Trichy Sankaran, South Indian percussion, met in a milestone event from which emerged a unique, improvising trio with two pianos and South Indian percussion. Fortunately, it was recorded and excerpts released on a long out of print LP. This CD recaptures the essential essence of the entire evening of musical discovery with previously unreleased music recovered from digitally reprocessed tapes recently discovered in diverse states of preservation; compositions include 19IV75 (Rosenboom and Floyd), Patterns for London (Rosenboom), Mrdangam Solo (Sankaran), Is Art Is (Rosenboom), and Suitable Bonus (various), Mutable Music, 17517-2, New York, 2004.

New Recording Projects Underway

Watch for news about other CD releases featuring the compositions, Naked Curvature (Four Memories of the Daimon) , Zones of Influence, the In the Beginning series of works, an extensive retrospective project, and more.

Please visit the RECORDINGS section of this web site for lots more information!

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NEW MUSIC PUBLISHED

Kicking Little Shadows

Rosenboom's "zen R&B" piano piece, Kicking Little Shadows has been published by Boosey & Hawks (London) in a collection titled, Elena Riu's R&B Collection, 17 Contemporary Piano Pieces Inspired by R&B. Click on the link for publishing and purchasing information.

Tango Secretum

Tango Secretum (2006) for solo piano with improvisational components, which may also be arranged or orchestrated, refers to the poem, Secretum, by Martine Bellen, which in turn refers to Secretum by Francesco Petrarca. The score is now available through Frog Peak Music.

Twilight Language Published

Twilight Language (2004) for solo piano, written for new music virtuoso, Vicki Ray, is now available through Frog Peak Music. The score presents four musical configuration spaces, a Twilight Language (Theme), and symbols for surrounding sound space images to be developed and ordered by the performer; titles of the four configuration spaces give seed foci for musical meditations: I—Devotion and Restless Heart Indistinguishable, II—Simultaneous Absence of Silence and Sound, III—Leaping from Eye of Wildest Imagination, and IV—Imperishable Jewel of Adamantine Mind; refers to double meanings in Sandhyabhasa(Sanskrit), symbolic idiom of the mystical Siddhas of Tibet, the Tenth Century, Ch’an (Zen), Chinese painter, Shih K’o, a drawing by Lindsay Claire Rosenboom, and the canonical proportions of Tibetan Buddha figures.

Zones of Coherence Published

Rosenboom's major work, Zones of Coherence, for solo or multiple trumpets, written for trumpet virtuoso, Daniel Rosenboom, is now available through Frog Peak Music. The work is an important example Rosenboom's technique of using configuration spaces in scoring. A recording on the CD, Bloodier, Mean Son, is also available from Ninewinds Records, (see above)

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RECENT WRITINGS

Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models. (2003). Santa Clarita, CA: David Rosenboom Publishing. This monograph explores a variety of models from the author's experimental music for how they can illuminate dimensions of interactive, co-creative communication, particularly as they might relate to forms of intelligence the nature of which can not be known in advance. [Monograph draft: 19.3 MB PDF of 1/31/04 revision available here. SEVERAL MINUTES REQUIRED FOR DOWNLOAD AT HIGH SPEEDS.]
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Please visit the WRITINGS section of this web site for lots more information!

David Rosenboom and I Nyoman Wenten (performers in How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims) visiting Wenten's home in Bali, 2007.

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David Rosenboom and J.B. Floyd in Miami, 2004, (see Suitable for Framing CD)

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Daniel Rosenboom performing Zones of Coherence in Glasgow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, 2005, (see Bloodier, Mean Son CD)

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Setup to perform Systems of Judgment at the Beijing Modern Music Festival, 2008

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David Rosenboom conducting at the opening of REDCAT in Los Angeles, 2003

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Daniel Rosenboom performing Zones of Coherence at La MaMa Theater on Sounds Like Now festival, New York, 2004, (see Bloodier, Mean Son CD)

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Painting by Shih K'o, (see Twilight Language)