Re: from Larry Polansky on Rothenberg

> Good to see all the recent interest in David Rothenberg's work. I > haven't seen
> David in many, many years, but we were good friends in the 70s and > 80s. Besides
> the scale work, David was very interested in timbre theory, computer > music,
> computer compositional ideas. We spent many hours together talking about
> everything under the sun. I have a file of several his articles > (including some
> of the stuff on timbre), and will look and see if there's anything I > can post
> that will help.
>
> I brought him to Mills at one point, and the Mills Contemporary Ensemble
> performed one (two?) of his pieces, and he did a lecture on the > Seminar in
> Formal Methods Series (this must have been the early 80s). Somewhere, > I have a
> tape of that lecture, and there's a brief description of the talk in > the old
> Leonardo article John Levin and I wrote about that Series (I can send > a hard
> copy of that article to anyone who'd like it).
>
>
> I'll look around for materials (scores, tapes, articles), and if > anyone makes contact with David (I've lost touch, I'm sorry to say, > David was a warm, funny, brilliant guy with a big heart!), let me > know, and I'll ask his permission to post some of thematerials I have > of his.
>
> larry polansky

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Wolf <djwolf@...> wrote:
>
> > Good to see all the recent interest in David Rothenberg's work. I
> > haven't seen
> > David in many, many years, but we were good friends in the 70s and
> > 80s.

Biographical data would be good.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
> Biographical data would be good.

How can smart people forget how to use Google? Sheesh.

http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-83.html

> > Biographical data would be good.
>
> How can smart people forget how to use Google? Sheesh.
>
> http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-83.html

Not the same person.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
> Not the same person.

Hilarious. Oh well, I got the name right and supplied bio info, must
count for something in the long run. I also note that this D.R.
actually makes music - any idea if the other D.R. does?

Cheers,
Jon

> > Not the same person.
>
> Hilarious. Oh well, I got the name right and supplied bio info,
> must count for something in the long run. I also note that this
> D.R. actually makes music - any idea if the other D.R. does?

Larry P. just wrote in (by way of Daniel W.) that he had pieces
performed at Mills. He also played me a recording of one of
his pieces that was performed by the AFMM (or some group
involving Johnny R.).

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
> Larry P. just wrote in (by way of Daniel W.) that he had pieces
> performed at Mills. He also played me a recording of one of
> his pieces that was performed by the AFMM (or some group
> involving Johnny R.).

Yep, rightio, read the messages in the wrong order. The fascinating
thing is the large amount of fairly interesting David Rothenbergs that
are out there in the world!

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@>
> wrote:
> > Biographical data would be good.
>
> How can smart people forget how to use Google? Sheesh.
>
> http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-83.html

I saw that, but the pictures looked pretty young. How was I to know it
was the right David Rothenberg?

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > > Biographical data would be good.
> >
> > How can smart people forget how to use Google? Sheesh.
> >
> > http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-83.html
>
> Not the same person.

And there you have it. Now you know why smart people might not leap to
conclusions. :)

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
> > Not the same person.
>
> And there you have it. Now you know why smart people might not leap to
> conclusions. :)

Thankfully I haven't ever touted myself as being smart! :) But it
really is wild - would one think there could be this many D.R.'s
involved in music? Like this guy:

http://music.case.edu/directory/index.php?id=81

OK, I'm useless, good luck on getting more info. I *know* Larry
Polansky can be reached on the web...

Cheers,
Jon

> Thankfully I haven't ever touted myself as being smart! :) But it
> really is wild - would one think there could be this many D.R.'s
> involved in music? Like this guy:
>
> http://music.case.edu/directory/index.php?id=81

It's a very common name. The DR in question is quite advanced
in age, lives in a penthouse on the Upper West side with a
very beautiful younger woman, and runs a company called
Inductive Inference (all info as of 1999). I can't find
him or Inductive Inference on the web.

That's all I know. I wouldn't know whether to call him a
mathematician, or what, for a Wikipedia entry.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:

> That's all I know. I wouldn't know whether to call him a
> mathematician, or what, for a Wikipedia entry.

Computer scientist is probably OK.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

>> That's all I know. I wouldn't know whether to call him a
>> mathematician, or what, for a Wikipedia entry.
>
>Computer scientist is probably OK.

Rothenberg is a bit like Tanaka, in that we tuning folk value his work today more than the folk in his own main discipline. Tanaka was a physicist by trade, but modern physicists are probably not going to recognize much significant in his work, hence a Physics-oriented person will strike him from Wikipedia. Since the wikipedia tribe is heavily populated with computer scientists, identifying him as a computer scientist might well get him knocked out. Go with music theorist AND information scientist and see what happens...

DJW