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AH!

Opera No-Opera

World Premiere at REDCAT

The world premiere performances of AH!, an international, collaborative, interactive opera project were presented to sold-out houses at REDCAT in Los Angeles during September, 2009. AH! continues to evolve as a living project via the AH! website and other media. Visit the AH! website to find out more, interact, and contribute as part of the community of AH! Creative Engagers.

http://ah-opera.org/

"It's a brilliant piece, highly entertaining, with booming firings from all quarter . . ."
Joseph Mailander, LA Opus, September 17, 2009

"The production offers lightning flashes of creative brilliance ."
David Ng, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2009

Click here to read Interview of DAVID ROSENBOM by Martine Bellen, co-creators of AH!, on Martine's website.

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Sixth Indonesian Arts Festival and Conference

Composer-performers, David Rosenboom, I Nyoman Wenten, and Vinny Golia, joined by renowned filmmaker, Maureen Selwood, were in residence duing October 2009 at the Jakarta Institute of Arts in Indonesia. They worked with faculty and arts students from the campuses of six Indonesian arts institutes to develop collaboartive, cross-cultural works combining music and animation froma variety of cultural roots. The results were presented to a large audience in Jarkata and others in Denpasar, Bali. Also included on the program was a collaborative music and animation piece by Rosenboom and Selwood, Impression, from How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims, a new work by Wenten and another film by Selwood.

"The music group performance enticed the audience from the beginning . . . The end result is a synergy of sounds that complement each other . . Some of the audience got carried away by the music."

Oleh Ilham Khoiri & Dahono Fitrianto, Kompas, Minggu, (Jakarta), October 11, 2009

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How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims

New, first ever, complete documentation in new recordings of all sections of this historic piece from 1969 was released in May 2009 by New World Records on a double CD set.

An amazing group of artists has contributed to this recording, including Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla), Vinny Golia (winds), Aashish Khan (sarod), Daniel Rosenboom (trumpets & co-production), David Rosenboom (piano, electronics & co-production), I Nyoman Wenten (Balinese instruments), William "Willie" Winant (marimba & Balinese instruments), Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick (cellos), two progressive rock/new music/metal bands from Los Angeles, Plotz! & DR. MiNT, master recording engineer, John Baffa, piano technician, Alan Eder, and others. A 28-page booklet is included with informative and stimulating essays by Chris Brown and Sande Cohen.

"If the facility [REDCAT] has revealed anything, it is that David Rosenboom, who heads CalArts School of Music, is one of America's most under appreciated composers. That couldn't have been clearer earlier this month when he revived 90 minutes' worth of his obscure 1969 epic, 'How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims,' for Indian tabla and sarode, deep winds, Balinese gamelan instruments, keyboards and a Javanese dancer. Minimalism, jazz improvisation and a variety of world music traditions met and had a blast."

Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2008

Go to the PHTOS section of this site to check out a collection of historical and new photos about ...Plymouth Rock... by clicking here.

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» UPCOMING EVENTS «
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Argus's Eyes See the Code of Small and Large — David Rosenbom will perform this excerpt from his twelve-movement, concert-length work for piano and Yamaha Disklavier, called Bell Solaris, in a concert honoring Yamaha, the official piano of REDACAT, and featuring an array of dazzling pianists.

REDCAT

8:30 PM, February 5th, 2010

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» NEW DEVELOPMENTS, PUBLICATIONS, RELEASES «
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How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims — new CD set from New World Records

Future Travel — recently released by New World Records

Suitable For Framing — recently released by Mutable Music

Brainwave Music (2006) — recently released by EM Records

Bloodier, Mean Son — works performed by trumpet virtuoso Daniel Rosenboom recently released by Ninewinds Records

Recording projects in progress.

Tango Secretum — work for piano with other possible arrangements published

Twilight Language — major work for piano published

Zones of Coherence — major work for solo or multiple trumpets published

Kicking Little Shadows — piano score published by Boosey & Hawks

Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models — recent monograph published on this web site

Also visit the RECORDINGS and WRITINGS sections of this web site for lots more information!

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» CREATIVE PROJECTS «
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AH! — new opera concept emerging

Propositional Music — long-term book project

Naked Curvature (Four Memories of the Daimon) — ongoing recording project, a whispered chamber opera

Zones of Influence — ongoing recording and instrument development project

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» RESEARCH «
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The Imperative of Co­Creation in Interstellar Communication:
Lessons from Experimental Music

Propositional Music from Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System

The Sal-Mar Construction Revived