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01. David Rosenboom - Station Oaxaca
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02. David Rosenboom - Time Arroyo
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03. David Rosenboom - Corona Dance
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04. David Rosenboom - Nazca Liftoff
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05. David Rosenboom - Desert Night Touch Down
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06. David Rosenboom - Palazzo
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07. David Rosenboom - Nova Wind
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08. David Rosenboom - Future Travel Patterns
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09. David Rosenboom - Future Travel M.U.S.I.C.
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ARTIST
ROSENBOOM, DAVID
TITLE
Future Travel
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 120LP
BT 120LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/12/2024
Black Truffle presents the first vinyl reissue of
David Rosenboom
's unique
Future Travel
, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period.
Future Travel
emerged from the confluence of two important streams in Rosenboom's work at this time. First, his exploration of "propositional music," defined as "complete cognitive models of music" that start from the radical question, "What is music?" In this case, the music belongs to the universe of Rosenboom's
In the Beginning (1978-1981)
, in which proportional relationships determine the material available to the composer in all musical parameters (harmonic relationships, melodic shapes, rhythmic subdivisions, dynamics, and so on). Second, the work documents a key moment in Rosenboom's long collaboration with synthesizer pioneer
Don Buchla
. Having played a role in developing concepts for some of the modules of the Buchla 300 Series Electric Music Box (an innovative analogue modular system controlled by micro-processors), Rosenboom went on to write the software for Buchla's hybrid analogue-digital keyboard synthesizer, the Touché, the instrument heard most prominently here. In a way that no purely analogue synthesizer could, the 300 Series and Touché allowed Rosenboom to work with the
In the Beginning
algorithms in real time, the synthesizers becoming "intelligent instruments" that actively collaborate with the performer. Developing the open structures of the electronic pieces from
In the Beginning
,
Future Travel
explored the possibilities of simply "playing the system," recording live at
Francis Ford Coppola
's Zoetrope studio in San Francisco.
Future Travel
is bracingly sui generis, existing in a unique universe where radical formalization spontaneously gives rise to expressive jazz harmonies and old-timey folk melodies. At several points throughout the record, the distinctive voice of
Jacqueline Humbert
is heard reading passages from the text component of
In the Beginning
, a dialogue between "The Double" (an embodiment of humanity's timeless desire to replicate itself in spiritual and technological copies) and two "Spirit Characters.: Fittingly, as all are conceived as embodiments of a future form of techno-human collective consciousness, distinctions between the three characters are not immediately evident in Humbert's delivery, just as the music blurs the boundaries between intelligent computing and human spontaneity. The record includes a 12-page booklet with notes about the album.
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