How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims

Left: Some members of the ...Plymouth Rock... ensemble in performance at REDCAT in Los Angeles, November 3, 2008; from left, Aashish Khan (sarode), Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla), (far right) I Nyoman Wenten (pemade) & (foreground) Vinny Golia (winds). Not shown are Daniel Rosenboom (trumpet) & David Rosenoom (piano, violin & computer). (Photo by Steve Gunther.) Right: David Rosenboom with ARP 2500 Synthesizer and tabla in Newton, MA, early summer 1970, in front of a van provided by Tonus Inc. for a tour with Gerald Shapiro, called It Takes A Year One Earth To Go Around The Sun, in which How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims was featured. (Image is from the book, Electronic Music, A Listener's Guide, by Elliott Schwartz, Praeger Publishers, NY, 1973, photographer unknown.)

The first ever complete document containing all sections of this work will be released by New World Records in spring 2009. *** Click here to see some images from performances that took place at the Electric Circus in New York on May 19, 1969; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT on April 7 & 8, 1970, and at REDCAT in Los Angeles on November 3, 2008. ***

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Counterpoint of Tolerance, Workshop I

A Counterpoint of Tolerance is a special project of the Transatlantic Arts Consortium (TAC) to bring together a group of young composer-performers from around the world to work with David Rosenboom in creating a new, concert-length work exploring the potential of creative music making to enhance how we understand human conditions in the new era of Globalization. The group is realizing a version of an opera generator or template for many possible operas created by poet Martine Bellen and composer David Rosenboom called AH! in which language, music, illusion, and the nature of perception are investigated for how they can both divide and join human beings. [Click here for snapshots taken by Jana Morlan of Workshop I, hosted by Idyllwild Arts, California, July, 2008.] [Use browser BACK button to return.]

Bell Solaris

Images from performances at REDCAT, Los Angeles, April, 2005, music by David Rosenboom, theatrical expansion conceived and directed by Travis Preston

****** Click here for more images of Bell Solaris at REDCAT taken by photographer, Steve Gunther. ***

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Suitable for Framing

David Rosenboom (left) and J. B. Floyd (right) performing with two Yamaha Disklaviers and interacitive software written by Rosenboom in HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) on The Reunion, a concert at the University of Miami opening the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Ocbober 31, 2004, and celebrating the re-release on a Mutable Music CD of the landmark album Suitable Framing, with previously unreleased material.

J. B. Floyd (left) and David Rosenboom (right)

Transplant Quartet

(Clockwise) David Rosenboom (piano/violin/computer), Jöelle Léandre (double bass), William Winant (percussion), and David Wessel (computer/Thunder), Transplant Quartet, performances in Los Angeles (REDCAT) and Portland (Time Based Arts), September, 2004, part of Transplant France; A Multimedia Celebration of French New Music

SalMar Construction (Restored)

David Rosenboom playing Salvatore Martirano's legendary electronic music system at the University fo Illinois, April, 2004

Rosenboom with SalMar Construction as restored by engineer Greg Danner, University of Illinois, April, 2004.