ONGOING PROJECTS

Creative Realizations

  • Composing new works and planning performances of new compositions is ongoing.

  • Re-releases of several historically important recordings, including the well-known early 1980s work “Future Travel,” and new collections of never before released live recordings are in-progress.

  • A new album of duets combining Korean haegeum/baritone haegeum with violin/viola, created in collaboration with Jeonghyeon Joo, has been recorded and is planned for release in 2023.

  • Work has begun compiling live performance recordings from the late 1980s made by the legendary group “Challenge” — (Anthony Braxton, David Rosenboom, and William Winant) — to be disseminated as a set when ready.

Technological Designs

  • Touché II — continued development of software instrument inspired by the original Touché hybrid digital-analog keyboard instruments designed in collaboration with Donald Buchla at Buchla & Associates in 1979-1980.

  • Developing technological resources needed for neuromusic projects and “Concurrent Complexity,” (see below).

  • Possible development of Eurorack module(s) inspired by historical designs from Neurona Company (1969-1970).

Research

  • Concurrent Complexity — the development of new work in what I refer to as concurrent complexity, a neuro-cybernetic approach to measuring complexity in multi-modal, networked stimulus environments and correlating those to measures of complexity in signals from hyper-brains (linked EEG measures from multiple participants) to produce immersive, creative experiences in a feedback framework that can enable self-organization. This is an example of working with complex adaptive systems and dynamically emergent forms.


Writing & Publishing

  • Propositional Music (book anticipated in 2023-2024) — propositional music is my term for a point of view about composing, in which composers might build proposed models of worlds, universes, evolution, brains, consciousness, or whole domains of thought and life, and then proceed to make dynamical musical embodiments of these models, inviting us to experience them in spontaneously emerging sonic forms. Such a practice fuels creative music methodologies when energized in composition, improvisation, analysis, and adjacent areas of interdisciplinary thought. According to this view, composing involves proposing models for whole musical realities. Their correspondence to proposed realities navigates a profound and complex meeting place for creative license and scientific verification. In science, one brings an idea to the world mostly by proving it. Artists, musicians, and engineers manifest their ideas through making. The concept of propositional music unifies the two in an area where music, science, and philosophy can meet in shared theoretical investigations, one in which distinctions may collapse into a new kind of artscience. For a look into this area of thinking, see my book chapter “Illusions of Form” under Works/Writings on this website.

  • Stories From my Life in Experimental Music — a storybook of unique encounters with extraordinary people.

  • A Musician’s View of Physical Emergence—On the Invocation of Physical and Temporal Metaphors — looking into how the language we use to describe physical models and properties influence our understanding of material existence.

Legacy & Outreach

  • Archive Collection

    • Updating the Rosenboom professional archive as needed and the document Finding Aid for David Rosenboom, Music, Papers and Inventions, 1947 – 2022 | Personal Archive, first phase of the archiving project begun in 2022 and currently covering physical materials.

    • E-photo Archive — availability pending site reorganizing.

    • Digital Archive — organizing materials documented digitally and adding to Finding Aid.

    • Archiving Collaboration — ongoing investigation of possibilities for collaboration with various institutions on support for digitizing archive materials and eventual housing.

  • Preservation and release of unreleased collaborations with experimental filmmaker George Manupelli.

  • Digitizing important notebooks for public access.

  • Re-release of historically important, out-of-print publications.

  • Revision and completion of scores never before made publicly available.

  • Preservation and publication of materials documenting the important Toronto-based performance art collective, Maple Sugar (1975-1979).

  • Preservation and publication of additional historically important video materials.

Links

David Rosenboom on Frontiersin – Research Gate – Academia.edu