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LIST OF MEDIA WORKS (from 1968) (chronologically within categories)

Latest update: May 18, 2004

INTERACTIVE MEDIA WORKS

Personalized Musical Score Generation & Transmission Machine (1968) unrealized proposal for a gallery installation, an interactive sculpture which generates a personalized musical score algorithmically after receiving input data from a user

Foam Puzzle with Myogenic Transmission (1969) unrealized proposal for dancers, electromyogram monitors, electronic music, and computer generated video imagery, in which choreography is formed by fitting large, interlocking puzzle pieces together while electronic music and projected images are controlled by signals recorded from dancers muscle movements

Ecology of the Skin (1970) environmental participation, performance, and installation event created for Automation House, New York, NY involving brain signals of up to ten participants controlling electronic processing and mixing of music played by keyboard performers along with electronic phosphene stimulators creating group dynamic, bio–electronic encounter situations for performers and audience members, documented in video, a news conference for New York media, and the book: Rosenboom, D. (ed.). (1975). Biofeedback and the arts: results of early experiments. Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada. [Distributed by Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH.]

Ambient Noise Instrument (1971) two unrealized proposals for both large, monumental and small, personal sound sculptures that function as listening instruments consisting of very large and small, exponential cones, the resonances of which are activated only by existing environmental noise, injecting no new sound of their own into these environments; participants then create music by activating keys that change the nature of the resonances

Vancouver Piece (1973) environmental participation sculpture installation created for the show, Sound Sculpture, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, in which sound environments in a specially designed room with damped acoustics and visual isolation encourage learning to navigate through these sound spaces using only aural cues; pairs of participants may also have their brain signals control these sound environments; subtle light tracings embedded in the surrounding walls and optical superimposing and exchanging of the participants' faces on each other's bodies can also be triggered by alpha waves from their brains that are synchronized in phase while they face each other in meditative postures on opposite sides of a two–way mirror system; documented in the books: Grayson, J. (ed.). (1975). Sound sculpture. Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada; and in Rosenboom, D. (ed.). (1975). Biofeedback and the arts: results of early experiments. Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada. [Distributed by Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH.]

Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones II (1973) a portable, bioelectronically controlled, electronic sound instrument for museum installation commissioned by the Medtronic Archive, Museum of Electricity and Life, Minneapolis

It Is About To . . . Sound (1994–95) in collaboration with Mark Coniglio and Stephen L. Mosko, interactive computer media installation in the form of a kiosk providing information in visual and sonic displays about contemporary music; users are guided through an exploration of indeterminate compositional processes resulting in personalized musical assemblages for each participant; part of Rollywholyover A Circus, an exhibition around the life and work of John Cage and his contemporaries, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, with the Pasadena Art Alliance, shown at MOCA in Los Angeles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Menil Collection in Houston, Art Tower Mito in Japan, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

It Is About . . . Vexations (1994–95) interactive computer–controlled–piano installation in which the performance interpretations by several pianists of Erik Satie's Vexations are made to morph into and out of each other continuously or according to user selections; part of Rollywholyover A Circus, an exhibition around the life and work of John Cage and contemporaries, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, with the Pasadena Art Alliance, shown at MOCA in Los Angeles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Menil Collection in Houston, Art Tower Mito in Japan, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

On Being Invisible II (Hypatia Speaks to Jefferson in a Dream) (1994–95)
A Self–Organizing, Multi–Media Performance Work Utilizing Event–Related Potentials From Performers' Brains
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This relatively recent work received four major performances in 1995–97 at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at Merkin Concert Hall in New York and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater in Chicago as part of ISEA97 (International Symposium on Electronic Art). A full–scale production requires two brainwave performers who play the characters of Hypatia and Jefferson, two improvising musicians (one capable of producing sharp transient sounds and one capable of long sustained sounds) who are the musical "doubles" of Hypatia and Jefferson, a narrator and two performers for the computer media which include real–time digital signal synthesis and processing, brainwave data acquisition and analysis, MIDI devices, computer controlled video laser disc with projection, slide projectors with dissolves, stage lighting, interactive HMSL software, sound reinforcement and audio mixing. Auditory evoked responses are extracted from the brainwaves of the performers and are used to construct an electronic musical fabric, to create sequences of transforming visual icons and select and arrange text materials from sampled voices. The on–stage musicians provide spontaneous counterpoint to complete a kind of self–organizing opera.

FILM AND VIDEO

Involuntary?Control (1969) documentary on biofeedback with David Rosenboom, Dr. Neal Miller, and Dr. Les Fehmi, and Don Berry, produced Philip Mendlo, filmed by Jerry Murphy, New York University, New York, 16mm film, approx. 30 min.; video transfer made at California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and added to the archives of the American Psychological Association about Dr. Neal Miller

Press Conference for Ecology of the Skin (1970) on biofeedback and the arts, with David Rosenboom, Dr. Edgar E. "Ted" Coons, Dr. David Vandercar, and David Rothenberg, produced by Thais Lathem, video taped at Automation House, American Foundation on Automation and Employment, New York, 1970, video

The Sky From the Bottom of the Well (1973) film by Bernard Dichek and James Crowe, based on David Rosenboom's piece, Three Day Biofeedback Learning Experience for Brown University, includes performances and music, York University, Toronto, 16mm film, approx. 60 min.; Three Day Biofeedback Learning Experience for Brown University is documented in Rosenboom, D. (ed.). (1975). Biofeedback and the arts: results of early experiments. Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada. [Distributed by Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH.]

On Being Invisible (1977) documentation by Kate Craig of an early solo performance by Rosenboom of this work at the Western Front, Vancouver, Western Front Video, video, approx. 90 min.

Three Short Films (1977) by George Manupelli with performances of songs by Jacqueline Humbert, David Rosenboom, and George Manupelli, York University, Toronto, 16mm film, approx. 10 min.

J. Jasmine . . . My New Music (1978) documentation by Kate Craig of a performance at the Western Front, Vancouver, by the J. Jasmine persona with songs by Jacqueline Humbert, David Rosenboom, and George Manupelli, performed by Humbert, Rosenboom, and Sam Ashley, includes introduction with excerpts from Rosenboom's And Out Come the Night Ears for solo piano and electronics, Western Front Video, video, approx. 90 min.

Almost Crying (1979) feature length, dramatic–musical film in which a 400–year–old samurai meets a strong, modern, female couple living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire; a collaborative project written, directed and filmed by George Manupelli, staring Harvey Chao, Francis Leeming, and Jacqueline Humbert music by David Rosenboom and Jacqueline Humbert, sound track by David Rosenboom, produced by John Caldwell, St. Theodore Films and John B. Caldwell Productions, Bethlehem, NH, Toronto, and Los Angeles, 16mm film, approx. 60 min.

A Taste of Jasmine, songs of Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom (1979) portraits of the J. Jasmine persona and her songs, produced by the artists in Toronto, Chez Hum–Boom Publishing, Santa Clarita, CA, video

In The Beginning (The Story) (1980) by David Rosenboom with George Manupelli, staring Jacqueline Humbert and Jean Moncrieff, abstract characters perform symbolic acts about post–human transformations, created for use with the composition for chamber orchestra and synthetic speech, (score available from Frog Peak Music, Hanover, NH.), 16mm film, silent, approx. 25 min., also available in video transfer with subtle video processing

In The Beginning (The Story) (1980) version of the film by the same name, (by David Rosenboom with George Manupelli, staring Jacqueline Humbert and Jean Moncrieff), paired with the composition In The Beginning I (Electronic) as sound track, David Rosenboom Publishing, Santa Clarita, CA, video, approx. 25 min.

Xenakis Ensemble Room Discussions (1983) documentation of conversations in which Iannis Xenakis and David Rosenboom discuss a wide–range of topics involving music and music learning, recorded by Ed Tywoniak during Xenakis's residency at Mills College, Oakland, CA, video

Predictions, Confirmations, and Disconfirmations (1991) documentation of the first performance using HFG (Hierarchical Form Generator) interactive software for improvisation, recorded at the Western Front, Vancouver, using MIDI piano and computer, video.

TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS

To That Predestined Dancing Place (1968) performance documentary of musical work by David Rosenboom at the Center for Creative and Performing Arts, State University of New York, and Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, directed by David Rosenboom and Lukas Foss, filmed by Don A. Pennebaker, performed by The New Percussion Quartet and John Cage, produced for National Educational Television by Public Broadcast Laboratories

How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1970) performance documentary recorded at the 1970 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts for National Educational Television Imagery of the New Media (1970–71) program about new technological art media written by David Rosenboom, produced by Ontario Educational Communications Authority, Toronto

Mathematics and the Arts (1971) segments about mathematical ideas in the arts written by David Rosenboom, produced by Ontario Educational Communications Authority, Toronto

The Future of Music (1971) a segment on biofeedback and the arts written by David Rosenboom, produced by CTV Television for the Here Come the 70's series, Toronto

Mind Over Body (1972) a segment on biofeedback and music written by David Rosenboom, directed by Karl Sabbagh, produced by the BBC for the Horizons Series, London

Biofeedback Music, interview for the Mike Douglas Show produced by Westinghouse Group "W" and CBS networks with David Rosenboom, Hermione Gingold, Jack Haley, and Mike Douglas, Philadelphia, PA, 1970

Brain Music for John and Yoko (1972) performance, interview, and discussions with David Rosenboom, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Chuck Berry, and Mike Douglas, produced for the Mike Douglas Show by Westinghouse Group "W" and CBS networks, Philadelphia, PA; re–released in 1998 by Rhino Home Video, (VHS) #R3 2606, Los Angeles, CA

Biofeedback and Music: Piano Etude I (1971) produced by National Educational Television for the Free Time Series, includes discussion with David Rosenboom, Dr. Edgar E. "Ted" Coons, Dr. Neal Miller, and Eric Pepper with performance by Rosenboom, New York

Brainwave Music (1971) discussion and demonstration with David Rosenboom and David Frost, produced for the David Frost Show by Westinghouse Group "W", New York

David Rosenboom and J.B. Floyd: Music for Two Pianos (1973) performance produced by John Grayson and the Vancouver Art Gallery for the CBC, Music to See Series, Vancouver

Target the Impossible (1973) performance and demonstration with piano, brain signals, and group exercises, CTV network, Toronto

Weekday (1974) interview for the CBC network, Toronto

Night Music (1975) with Jacqueline Humbert, performance and demonstration on biofeedback and the arts, Ontario Educational Communications Authority, Toronto

Art and Technology (1983) interview and demonstration about electronic music, includes a performance of Nova Wind, produced by Video West for Disney Cable Television, San Francisco

Ripley's Believe It Or Not (1983) demonstration of brainwave music for the ABC series with David Rosenboom and Holly Palance, produced by Columbia Pictures Television, Los Angeles

Music and Neuroscience with Four Lines (2001) interview and demonstration of Four Lines performance excerpts produced for Italian educational television at Venice International University and Venice Conservatory of Music Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy

Interstellar Communication and Experimental Music (2002) interview for French television, Paris and Los Angeles, CA

RADIO PRODUCTIONS

Continental Divide (Rosenboom) and Chilean Drought (Rosenboom and Humbert) (1976) performed by NEXUS percussion group, CBC Recording, Toronto

Light (1975) improvisation group including David Rosenboom, J.B. Floyd, Bruce Pennycooke, Terry Clarke, Rick Homme, and Kathy Moses, CBC Recording, Toronto

In The Beginning: Etude II (keyboards) (1981) recording made with the Touché electronic keyboard instrument for a National Public Radio program on contemporary keyboard music with John Cage, Lou Harrison, David Rosenboom, and Conlon Nancarrow, produced by Eva Soltes Associates, Albany, CA

Music of J.B. Floyd and David Rosenboom (1983) includes interviews and recording of live performance, National Public Radio, Miami, FL

Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College (1987) radio feature documenting current activities at the CCM produced for US Ear, National Public Radio, Oaland, CA

Interstellar Communication and Experimental Music (2002) interview for British radio, recorded in Paris, France

First Impressions (2004) part of show about interstellar communications, BBC Radio 4, UK [broadcast 9/20/04]

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