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Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - J. Jasmine: My New Music

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Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - J. Jasmine: My New Music

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Privately pressed to LP in 1978 under the name J. Jasmine and made especially for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, with artistic collaboration from the festival’s founder and Once Group artist, George Manupelli, My New Music is the debut album by Jacqueline Humbert and David Rosenboom. Featuring a cast of Mills College personalities like David Behrman and Sam Ashley on backup vocal duties, this song cycle is at every turn boundary-pushing and gender-busting, yet still hilarious, sweet, and genuine, all delivered in a post-genre, art-song, cabaret musical style that happens to boast some serious avant-garde chops, courtesy of Rosenboom. If it weren’t so spot on, you’d swear it was a guilty pleasure. As J. Jasmine writes, My New Music is a collection of personal stories and private desires, exposed, articulated, performed and dedicated to the hope that one person's fantasies can contribute to another person's freedom. Get lost in J. Jasmine’s world for a little long while, and be free.

Track List

DIGITAL TRACK LIST

  1. Androgyny (2:05)
  2. Broke and Blue (2:42)
  3. Wild about the Lady (4:32)
  4. Rented Car, Painted Lady, Borrowed Time (5:03)
  5. Strong Arms (2:40)
  6. How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (Section VIII, excerpt) (4:43)
  7. Grand Canyon Heartache (1:38)
  8. Clear Light (5:07)
  9. Environmental Collage / Younger Lady (2:25)
  10. Oasis in the Air (3:20)

Press

Followers of David Rosenboom's work have learnt to expect the unexpected. In February 1977 he recorded On Being Invisible, a mind­stretching encounter between brain signals, touch sensors, hybrid-computerwave analysis and sound synthesis. The following year, on Collaboration In Performance, he teamed up with electronic music pioneer Donald Buchla to explore algorithmic methods for real-time composition. In between, in cahoots with singer Jacqueline Humbert, Rosenboom crafted the song cycle J Jasmine: My New Music. In 1978 it was presented at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and then issued on privately pressed vinyl. Soon afterwards graphic artist and set designer Humbert took on a key vocal role in Robert Ashley’s operas. Her leanings in the guise of J Jasmine were more towards the melodic melodrama and tenacious hooks of barroom ballads and Off-Broadway show tunes. Part parody, part unapologetic indulgence, her performance is funny and smart. Her lyrics give a series of sly twists to the regular fare of erotic desire, tangled relationships and troubled lives. And while Humbert morphs into a Linda Ronstadt for the avant garde, Rosenboom - playing viola, trumpet and electronic keyboard as well as piano - serves up robust accompaniment peppered with devices that test the elasticity of the song forms.

Julian Cowley, Wire Magazine (May 2018)

About Jacqueline Humbert

Jacqueline Humbert is a recording, performance and visual artist as well as a designer for film, television and live performing arts. Her costumes, sets and visual environments for performance, often in collaboration with leading television and film directors, composers, choreographers and artists, have been seen on stages and in broadcasts throughout Europe and North America, notably, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives, a television opera, and Atalanta (Acts of God), in which she also performed as the "Odalisque."

Her original performance works, in collaboration with composer David Rosenboom, J. Jasmine...My New Music and Daytime Viewing, have been recorded and released on records and cassettes. Her graphics and design works have been used as covers for numerous records, CDs, books and posters in the contemporary arts.

Through her custom design business, Avant-Garter Fashions, she has produced creations for San Francisco based artists, DanceArt Company, Zaccho SF Dance Theater, MaFish Co., the Oberlin Dance Collective, and Alonzo King's, Lines. She designed costumes for the Oakland Ballet's production of choreographer, Emily Keeler's work, The Awakening, and has, most recently, continued work with the company, premiering a new ballet by Ms. Keeler of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Jacqueline Humbert developed the leading role of "Linda" in Robert Ashley's opera, Improvement (Don Leaves Linda). She is also a principal in the other three operas of the Now Eleanor's Idea tetralogy, eL/Aficionado, Foreign Experiences, and Now Eleanor's Idea, for which she is also costume and set designer.

Jacqueline Humbert Artist Page

About David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom is a composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator, known as a pioneer in American experimental music. Since the 1960s David Rosenboom (b. 1947) has explored the spontaneous evolution of musical forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, multi-disciplinary composition and performance, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. He studied at the University of Illinois with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller, Kenneth Gaburo, Gordon Binkerd, Bernard Goodman, Paul Rolland, Jack McKenzie, Soulima Stravinsky and John Garvey, among others.

In the 1970s he was founding faculty and a professor in the Music Department at York University in Toronto. He taught at Mills College from 1979 to 1990, held the Darius Milhaud Chair, was Professor of Music, Head of the Music Department, and Director of the Center for Contemporary Music. Rosenboom holds the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition in The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts and was Dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts from 1990 through 2020.

Rosenboom is author of influential books such as Biofeedback and the Arts and Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System and many articles and monographs, such as Propositional Music: On Emergent Properties in Morphogenesis and the Evolution of Music and Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models. He is also co­author with Phil Burk and Larry Polansky of the widely used software environment for experimental music, HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language). Currently, he is working on a book about compositional models and exploring the universe through experimental music, entitled Propositional Music, a variety of recordings and new musical projects.

David Rosenboom Artist Page

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