October 3rd, 2022, the opening of Rosenboom’s residency as a George A. Miller Visiting professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a lecture called “Neuromusic – Propositions from an Art-Science Convergence” for the MillerComm lecture series sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC. In this talk, Rosenboom shared the story of his journey towards the development of the unique compositional approach he calls propositional music that started while he was a student in Urbana in the mid-1960s. He also shared recent insights discovered through various cross-disciplinary collaborations in the last decade. Many of these were related to Rosenboom’s acclaimed work on extended musical interface with the human nervous system realized in the form of brainwave music. At present, he is expanding this in scientific and musical research paradigm that he calls concurrent complexity. He views this as 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 (several participants “connected” with EEG devices) to produce immersive, creative experiences in a feedback framework that can enable self-organization.
Rosenboom’s lecture was followed by a panel discussion with science historian David Sepkoski, composer and instrument designer Carla Scaletti, and physicist and author of science-inspired musical works Smitha Vishveshwara exploring the inherent interconnectedness of arts and sciences and prospects for further cross-pollination among different disciplines.
Read about the residency: https://davidrosenboom.com/miller-residency-uiuc-2022
Recording of the MillerComm lecture & discussion: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_3od7kfir/35316991
