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David
Rosenboom
Zones of Influence
David Rosenboom, composition and
electronics; William Winant, percussion
David Rosenboom (b.1947) is considered a pioneer in
American
experimental music. This release of his Zones of Influence
(1984-85)
documents for the first time the complete version of a major
composition for percussion and computer/electronics that
introduced new
virtuoso performance techniques along with significant
developments in
real-time algorithmic composition and advanced interactive
linking of
percussion instruments with software. Few solo percussion
works exist
with the scope of this composition. Though the work has been
performed
extensively, it has never been fully recorded for public
release until
now.
Zones of Influence is a five-part cycle of works for
in which the percussionist's performance is processed and
transformed
in a special way. This way involves not just transforming
the
percussion instruments' sounds on an acoustic level, but
processing
based on information contained in complex patternings
manifested in the
percussionist's performance. This constitutes real-time
algorithmic
processing or algorithmic composition driven by the musical
structure
of what the percussionist plays. For its time, Zones of
Influence
introduced historically innovative approaches to how
real-time
compositional algorithms may be considered as key components
of a
score. It also introduced a technique for making sequences
of
continuously evolving variations on musical materials,
called
morphological transformations . These transformations, in
turn,
outlined musical trajectories in what qualities; and from a
system of
multi-part counterpoint made with these trajectories , the
musical
materials of Zones of Influence emerged. Indeed, all the
musical
materials for Zones of Influence were generated with these
tools,
starting with the musical features contained in two long,
60-note,
melodies, which were freely composed in advance.
Each of the five works in this set involves entirely
different
percussion setups, written scores and computer algorithms.
Since the
piece was composed before the proliferation of MIDI (Musical
Instrument
Digital Interface), special interface electronics were
constructed to
connect the percussion instruments to a computer assisted
digital
instrument known as the Touché . This innovative, computer
instrument
was collaboratively designed by Donald Buchla and David
Rosenboom in
Berkeley, Ca, in 1979-1980. Zones of Influence was written
for
percussionist, William Winant and the Touché.
David Rosenboom is a composer, performer,
interdisciplinary artist, author and educator known as a
pioneer in
American experimental music. During his long career, he has
explored
ideas about the spontaneous evolution of musical forms,
languages for
improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles,
multi-disciplinary composition and performance,
cross-cultural
collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive
multi-media
and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic
systems,
art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical
interface
with the human nervous system.
William Winant (b. 1953) is a multi-faceted
percussion artist with over 200 recordings, has collaborated
with such
renowned artists as John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony
Braxton, James
Tenney, Cecil Taylor, George Lewis, Steve Reich, Frederic
Rzewski, Joan
LaBarbara, Oingo Boingo, Kronos Quartet, Sonic Youth, Mr.
Bungle, Yo-Yo
Ma, Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham, San Francisco
Contemporary Music
Players, and Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio. Composers who have
written for
him include John Cage, Lou Harrison, John Zorn, Alvin
Curran, Chris
Brown, David Rosenboom, Larry Polansky, Gordon Mumma, Alvin
Lucier,
Terry Riley, Fred Frith, and Wadada Leo Smith. He teaches at
Mills
College and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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21090
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Enzo Minarelli |
21089
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21088
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Yiorgis Sakellariou |
21087
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id m theft able |
21086
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Kasper T. Toeplitz |
21085
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Tom Hamilton |
21084
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David First |
21083
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Tomomi Adachi / Jaap Blonk / Owen F. Smith / Duane
Ingalls |
21082
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Marta Sainz &
If, Bwana |
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21080
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If, Bwana |
21079
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Ulrich Krieger |
21078
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Triple Point |
21077
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Robin Hayward |
21076
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Ron Nagorcka |
21075
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Secluded Bronte |
21074
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David Rosenboom |
21073
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Peter Batchelor |
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Alvin Lucier |
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Lou Cohen |
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Brian Chase |
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Jerry Hunt |
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If, Bwana |
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Jorge Antunes |
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Enzo Minarelli |
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Tensions At The Vanguard |
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Frances White |
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Noah Creshevsky |
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If,Bwana/Trio Scordatura |
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Nate Wooley |
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Leo Kupper |
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Pauline Oliveros/ Francisco López/Doug Van Nort/Jonas
Braasch |
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Philip Corner |
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Alvin Lucier |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Birds + Machines |
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Kiva |
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César Bolaños |
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Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos |
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Tom Hamilton/
Bruce Eisenbeil |
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Source Records 1-6 |
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Noah Creshevsky/ If,Bwana |
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Simon Wickham-Smith |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Annea Lockwood |
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Felix Werder |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Nick Didkovsky |
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Montreal Sound Matter |
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Anla Courtis |
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Crawling with Tarts |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Hans Otte |
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DIY Canons |
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Band/Myers |
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Chris Brown |
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Tom Johnson |
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Roger Reynolds |
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Trios - Collaboration |
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Beth Anderson |
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Hamilton, Silverton, Margolis |
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Warren Burt |
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Jorge Antunes |
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David Dunn |
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Roger Reynolds |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Pauline Oliveros |
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David Rosenboom |
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Ross Bolleter |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Leo Kupper |
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Robert Rutman |
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Matthew Ostrowski |
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various |
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Rune Linblad |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Pauline Oliveros |
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Rune Linblad |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Leo Kupper |
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various |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Trigger |
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Big City Orchestra |
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If,Bwana |
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Frog Peak Music |
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C.U.E. Records |
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Sound of Pig Cassettes |
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Ants (Italian Label) |
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Ned Rothenberg |
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Anna Homler |
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oaksmus (German Label) |
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Geoff Dugan |
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Anomalous Records |
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