Track listing

 

Disc 1

01 Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones

(Deviant Resonances) (2015) 35:20

David Rosenboom composer / electronics / computer algorithms

Sarah Belle Reid and Micaela Tobin active imaginative listening brainwave performers

 

02 Layagnānam (1990) 7:07

David Rosenboom and Trichy Sankaran composers

Trichy Sankaran mrdangam   David Rosenboom electronics / computer algorithms

 

03 The Right Measure of Opposites

(expanded movement from Bell Solaris) (1998 & 2018) 14:18

David Rosenboom composer / two Yamaha Disklavier™ pianos / electronics / computer algorithms

 

Disc 2

01 Earth Encomium with Nothingness is Unstable (2017) 15:56

David Rosenboom composer / electronics / computer algorithms / field recordings / piano / Yamaha Disklavier™

 

02 Music for Unstable Circuits (+ Piano) (1968 & 2018) 12:47

David Rosenboom composer / piano / electronics / computer algorithms

 

03 The Experiment (from Hopscotch—mobile opera for 24 cars) (2015) 18:10

Text by Erin Young

David Rosenboom composer / electronics / computer algorithms

Marja Liisa Kay soprano David Castillo baritenor  Sarah Belle Reid, Micaela Tobin, Gillian Rae Perry and Amy Knoles active imaginative listening brainwave performers

 

04 Four Lines (String Quartet) (2001) 17:09

David Rosenboom composer  Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl violins

Linnea Powell viola  Ashley Walters cello David Rosenboom electronics / computer algorithms

 

 

CREDITS

 

Electronics employed included: Muse™ brainwave sensing headbands, Buchla 200 Series analog modules, Apple computers, and composer’s custom built circuits.

 

Software used included: Reaktor, Muse I/O, HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) (Burk, Polansky, and Rosenboom), and Touché II (Rosenboom and Zwartjes) inspired by Touché (Buchla and Rosenboom).

 

Special thanks to InteraXon, Inc. for Muse™ brainwave sensing headbands and Yamaha Corporation of America and Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. for piano used in these recordings and support of Rosenboom’s work with the Disklavier™.

 

Supported in part by the Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music at CalArts.

 

David Rosenboom is a Yamaha Artist.

 

All compositions Copyright © David Rosenboom and The David C. Rosenboom 2013 Trust 1968 through 2018. Published by David Rosenboom Publishing (BMI).

 

Recording Copyright ℗ David Rosenboom and The David C. Rosenboom 2013 Trust 2019. All rights reserved.

 

Disc 1

Track 1

Recorded August 7, 2018 at the composer’s studio in Valencia CA

Recording, editing, and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Track 2

Recorded April 19, 1990 in live performance at Merkin Concert Hall in New York

Recording engineer Rob Rapley, Classic Sound

Editing and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Track 3

Recorded August 22, 2018 in The Wild Beast music pavilion at Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA

Recording engineer Alberto Cruz

Editing and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Disc 2

Track 1

Live parts recorded August 22, 2018 in The Wild Beast music pavilion at Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA with subsequent sessions in the composers studio and field recordings from previous dates.

 

Recording engineer Alberto Cruz

Editing and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Track 2

Recorded August 22, 2018 in The Wild Beast music pavilion at Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA

Recording engineer Alberto Cruz

Editing and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Track 3

Recorded August 9, 2018 in the composer’s studio in Valencia CA

Recording, editing, and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

Track 4

Recorded September 6, 2018 in the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Studio at Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA

Recording engineer John Baffa

Assistant recording engineer Alberto Cruz

Editing and mixing engineer David Rosenboom

 

 

Executive Producer Bob Lord

Executive A&R Sam Renshaw

A&R Danielle Lewis

Vice President, Audio Production Jeff LeRoy

Mastering Shaun Michaud

Production Engineer Lucas Paquette

Art Director Brett Picknell

Design Ryan Harrison, Edward A. Fleming

Publicity Patrick Niland