Daniel Rothman: composer / sound artist

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Daniel Rothman began his musical life as a woodwind player of the many types and styles heard around the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey Shore, where he studied with Val Krebs, a Pall Mall redolent gig-player that passed down to him advice from his teacher Stefan (Wolpe, as it turned out).  At Juilliard Pre-College, Andrew Thomas introduced him to music then segregated by Uptown and Downtown scenes, finding his own way as an undergraduate student of Charles Wuorinen at Manhattan School of Music and a freelancing project assistant to John Cage. After studies with Morton Subotnick, Roger Reynolds, Zygmunt Krauze, and others at Yale University School of Music, and a short teaching stint at Montclair State College (NJ), he zipped off to Europe, working at Institut de recherche et de coordination acoustique/musique (Paris), ExperimentalStudio des SWF (Freiburg), and Dansk Institut fur Elektroakustisk Musik  (Aarhus).  He returned to NY, reconnected with friends and fellow musicians Tom Buckner, Robert Dick,  Joe Kubera, Ted Mook, JD Parran, Ned Rothenberg, and Robert Ashley, among others, enrolled in and quit the DMA program at Columbia University, and moved to Los Angeles, where he founded Wires Center for New & Experimental Music, taught at CalArts,  and established Los Angeles River Records.  

Rothman's collaborators include artists Elliot Anderson and Jim Campbell (Cézanne's Doubt); Holly Tempo (Would Inglewood); Paul Tzanetopoulos (Sense  Absence); writers Michael Lentz (ende gute. frage.), Andrea Loselle (Sigmaringen) and Yoko Tawada (Un coup de dés); and urban planner Deike Peters (The Ballona /Guashna Project).

Rothman's many commissions, fellowships and awards include Argosy Foundation, Bremen Radio, California Arts Council, Durfee Foundation (LA), French Ministry of Culture, Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung (Freiburg), Leopold Schepp Foundation (NY), Musikprotokoll (Graz), National Endowment for the Arts (USA), New Jersey State Council on the Arts, ORF (Vienna and Graz), Partch Ensemble (LA), Phaedrus Foundation (NY), Piano Spheres (LA), Puffin Foundation (NJ), Rockefeller Foundation (NY), Schering Stiftung (Berlin), Südwestrundfunk New Jazz Meeting, Theatre Chamber Players of Kennedy Center, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Zentrum für Kunst u. Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe).  

Piano solo:

What bodies know

for Mark Robson

the long & the short of it

for Satoko Inoue

Life between tidemarks on rocky shores

for Mark Robson

Telling the bees

for Eric Huebner

in memoriam Birigit Hélène Scheib

Queens Plaza

for Eric Huebner

¡La música; —mujer desnuda, corriendo loca por la noche pura! 

for Bernhard Wambach

Guitar solo:

Portami con te nel mattina vivace 

(M. Capuzzo, arr. Rothman)

for Maura Capuzzo &

Ruben Mattia Santorsa

Pedal Harp solo:

Freddie's Feet

for Alison Bjorkedal

Cello solo:

Dusk ripples across the Salton Sea

for Ashley Walters

Bb clarinet & electronics:

Yes, Philip, Androids Dream Electric Sheep

for myself

Saxophone Quartet (2 tenors, 2 baris):

Park Bench

for Ulrich Krieger

Bb clarinet, trombone, piano, cello:

The dreamhouse of Herman Wallace

for Mattie Barbier

String Quartet:

Sense  Absence

for Quatuor Bozzini

Oboe/English Horn Quintet:

if snow fell upward…

(in memory of  Art Jarvinen)

the dream of the dream being drawn

for Peter Veale

Chamber Opera:

Cézanne's Doubt - male voice, Bb clarinet, Bb trumpet, cello, audio & video signal processing.

for Tom Buckner & Ted Mook

Large Ensemble:

the skin is the threshold…

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