David Rosenboom

An ever-evolving solo performance, The Infinity of Things that Don’t Exist is a continuously emerging sound world that draws upon its previous iterations and sonic histories to challenge the distinction between nature and artifice. Eschewing genre in favor of a boundless and generative mode of creation, David Rosenboom explores the dynamics of resonance and interaction as organizing principles, incorporating materials from past performances as well as field recordings and live play into this cumulative, improvisational process. In his performance, arrangements of analog sound modules are activated by acoustic inputs from various instruments and sound makers, while other instruments are prompted by algorithms. Parallel to this freeform sonic assemblage, a video, A Summary History of Humans in the World, projects the scene of a hand inscribing ink on parchment, the written text contemplating the challenges of human evolution and how humans respond to the nature of illusions.