David Rosenboom with HEX Trio - FUTURE TRAVEL

Future Travel

David Rosenboom

with

HEX Trio

Molly Pease, Fahad Siadat, & Scott Graff

new music with live electronics, voices, film/video, piano/keyboard, electric violin, and more

“It is not day. It is not night. Awareness of existence is manifest.”

In our age of technologically induced cognitive somnambulism, the abandonment of conscious awareness to the techno-social networks of the synthetic infosphere, Future Travel is about the poiesis of a positive possible, affirming the power of creative assertion and proactive being, no matter the presence and stresses of global uncertainties.

Investigating profound cognitive shifts that might deepen our understanding of physical emergence has threaded its way through composer-performer David Rosenboom’s more than 50-year propositional musical modeling practice. This performance celebrates the new, expanded reissue of his classic 1981 journey in sonic imagery, Future Travel, with new music derived from it and performed in combination with his latest score for creative singers, Is Existence Is.

Future Travel’s original narrative imagines a spirit being representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans evolved after becoming aware of the unstoppable momentum of the course which they had set and the unlikelihood of their surviving. The story unfolds within new Future Travel music as an electrified HEX Trio delivers a dialogue, originally written for an orchestra piece called In the Beginning V (The Story), interwoven with a seldom-seen film made for the piece in collaboration with legendary experimental filmmaker, George Manupelli. Future Travel is also the first major composition created with Touché, a radical approach to an electronic keyboard instrument resulting from a 1979-80 design collaboration of Rosenboom with Donald Buchla. A software-based successor called Touché II is heard in this concert.

Intertwining spontaneously, the sound worlds, text materials, harmonic architectures and image environments of Is Existence Is arise from reflections on facts and philosophies of existence: concurrent complexities linking inside with outside; places, locations and times of individual and other; and the resplendent emergence of pure spirit. Various modules of words combine and recombine like philosophical DNA, as the HEX Trio navigates endless possible pathways through notated materials, and their voices activate banks of electronic resonators tuned to the work’s unique scale pattens. A speaking part, and resonating piano/keyboard introduction with waterfall field recording enfold the ensemble and set the pace.

What might travel mean in a future wherein the nature of consciousness evolves in profound ways? Perhaps the atemporal nature of this question might enable this music to remain a source of inspiration for active imaginative listeners today.

“There is compatibility between local universes and global universes. These are artifact points of view.”

SPECIAL TICKET PRICE FOR THE FIRST 15 INCLUDES A (SIGNED) COPY OF THE FUTURE TRAVEL LP, TO BE PICKED UP AT THE PERFORMANCE.