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Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones (Deviant Resonances)

from live ateliers claus by David Rosenboom

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(trio with two active imaginative listening brainwave performers and computer-electronics with five-string electric violin)
In large measure, this piece is about listening as performance. To materialize that idea, specific features that can be sensed and analyzed in electrical signals emanating from the brains of two active imaginative listening performers are linked to procedures for generating an electronic sound tapestry. In this performance, Rosenboom calibrates a computer system to best follow varying degrees of coherency among particular smooth waves found in the listening performers’ EEGs, which can be associated with various states of consciousness that they can learn to control. In addition, the system detects both individual and synchronous changes in the EEGs that are typically associated with how the listeners’ attention may be shifting among features in the sonic landscape. The analysis and synthesis system adapts and responds to these features in specific ways. The performers listen creatively, noting their abilities to influence the sounds. Rosenboom interacts with them musically, playing computer-electronics with five-string electronic violin. A pre-composed architecture provides an array of available sound elements and guides the performance from initial simplicity to emerging complexity, as sound elements are delineated through the counterpoint of listening. Then, after a period of improvisation, the system is eventually guided back to simplicity again.

This work pays particular attention to goings on inside margins of uncertainty near the boundaries of differentiation that might be associated with recognizable, resonant elements. It also explores how unpredictable transient events may either reinforce or disturb emerging orders among resonant patterns. All this exploration is carried out within the framework of how we might fuse brainwave patterns and musical forms. In the context of performances like this one, our intentions are artistic and inclusive, melding products of scientific investigation and technology with aesthetic inquiries and speculations about the nature of human awareness and our ability to describe what we perceive as self and universe.

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from live ateliers claus, released April 2, 2021

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David Rosenboom Los Angeles, California

David Rosenboom is a pioneer in American experimental music. He has explored ideas about new techniques in scoring for ensembles, multi-disciplinary composition & performance, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art & literature, interactive multi-media & new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems & extended musical interface with the human nervous system. ... more

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