NOWS from David Rosenboom and Sarah Belle Reid is a captivating expression of the radical challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The music examines the notion of “co-presence,” or togetherness, when experienced in isolation. This seemingly self-contradictory concept became an everyday occurrence as in-person gatherings became video conferences. Performer-composers Reid and Rosenboom spent this time passing fragmented musical ideas back and forth. In this organic way, a collection of “sound correspondences” accumulated between the two artists, made with instruments ranging from strings and horns to modular synthesizers, analog signal processors, urban and desert soundscapes, and much more. The resulting album, NOWS, is a post-genre work that speaks to our unique moment in history.
Downloads of this recording are available at Bandcamp and Cafe OTO. This live solo concert was recorded at the wonderful Brussels venue, Les Ateliers Claus, and mixed and mastered in David Rosenboom’s studio. The concert featured three major works: Earth Encomium with Nothingness is Unstable, Yamaha Disklavier piano and computer/electronics; Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones (Deviant Resonances), brainwaves and computer/electronics; and Transformations on Hymn of Change, Yamaha Disklavier piano and computer/electronics.
One.Source: HMSL. The first collection of music made with HMSL.
In 1990 Jeanne Parson produced a compilation cassette of compositions created with Hierarchical Music Specification Language (HMSL), an experimental computer music language developed by David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, and Phil Burk at Mills College Center For Contemporary Music.
In 2018 Scott Makson digitized the tape at UCSC. Those files can be streamed and downloaded here.
one.source: HMSL is a compilation tape, with music by John Bischoff, Steve Curtin, Nick Didkovsky, Steve Everett, Andreas Mniestris, Jeanne Parson, David Rosenboom, Carter Scholz, and others. Originally released on Frog Peak Music.
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You many also download these files ateamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/recordings/one.source.hmsl/one.source.index.html
