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NEWS ITEMS

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Future Travel Released

Long out of print in its original, 1981 LP version from Street Records, Future Travel, has now been released again, remastered 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, sppoken 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.

Tango Secretum Published

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 Petraca. 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 trujmpet virtuoso, Daniel Rosenboom, is nowavailable through Frog Peak Music. A recording is also available from Ninewinds Records, (see below) . . .

New Monograph Available

Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models. (2003). Santa Clarita, CA: David Rosenboom Publishing. [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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Brainwave Music (2006 Edition) Released

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 with original tracks, Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones (Music from Brains in Fours) (1972), Chilean Drought (1974) and Piano Etude I (Alpha) (1971) and a brand new track, Four Lines (Two High) (2001); extensive booklet included containing program notes and photos documenting Rosenboom's related experimental music activity emphasizing the 1970s . . .

WIRE: "composers of the year"

WIRE magazine has selected Rosenboom and his collaborators, pianist, J.B. Floyd and South Indian mrdangam performer, Trichy Sankaran, to be included among "composers of the year" for recent CD releases in the "Modern Composition" category. This honor was for compositions on the CD, Suitable for Framing, Mutable Music, 17517-2, New York. The other composers designated in this category were: David Behrman, Harison Birtwistle, Candlesnuffer, Henry Cowell, Gérard Grisey, Alvin Curran, Morton Feldman, Tristan Murail, Terry Riley, Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, James Tenney and Iannis Xenakis.

MORE RECENT CD RELEASES

Bloodier, Mean Son, the debut album of the young trumpet virtuoso, Daniel Rosenboom, is now out on Ninewinds Records, NWCD 0238, an extremely dynamic, diverse collection of world premièrer recordings of works by 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 . . . Mutable Music, 17517-2, New York, 2004.

RECENT WRITINGS

NEWLY AVAILABLE! -> Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models. (2003). Santa Clarita, CA: David Rosenboom Publishing. [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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ONGOING

REDCAT Season Starting September 2007, the fifty season of the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre in downtown Los Angeles will offer another stellar, cutting edge lineup of performance events; watch for announcements and click on REDCAT for more information.

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CURRENT AND PAST SEASON PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

The Arts and Global Peace — In November, 2007, David Rosenboom and I Nomen Wenten gave two performances, delivered several papers and speeches and participated in seminars during the Fifth Indonesian Arts Festival, presented with the theme, The Arts and Global Peace, by Institut Seni Indonesia (Denpasar) in Bali. Dancer/choreographers, Hiroko Hojo, Nanik Wenten, Andriana Mitchell, and tap dancer, Bob Carroll were also part of the performance collaborations.

Systems of Judgment in Berlin — Rosenboom's live-performance, computer music epic, was presented in September, 2007 on INTERFACE 2007 — festival for music and related arts — at Ballhaus Naunyn Str. in Berlin . . .

Zones of Coherence at REDCAT, L.A., Mills College and DISS (England) — This work for trumpet virtuoso, Daniel Rosenboom, was presented with critical acclaim in October, 2007 both in Los Angeles at REDCAT and at Mills College in Oakland on concerts celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Mills Center for Contemporary Music. Prior to that in August, 2007, it was also performed in the UK at the renowned Dartington International Summer School, . . .

Music for Trumpets at CAMS@CV — During June, 2007, Rosenboom was again composer in residence during at the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale where performances of given of Continental Divide, In the Beginning: Etude I, In the Beginning: Etude III, Shiftless Drifters, Attunement, and Tango Secretum (with trumpeter, Mark Gould). Rosenboom and trumpeter/composer, Markus Stockhausen, also gave a duo concert of improvised, intuitive music.

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