True Rosaschi

True Rosaschi was born in Santa Rosa, California. He received formal music training at San Francisco State University and privately studied improvisation and composition with W.A. Mathieu. Starting as a improvisational pianist, he later developed a love of symphonic choral music singing with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. He has taught music for 15 years and in turning to composition full-time is interested in building bridges of accessibility to contemporary music through technology.

Finishing his undergraduate studies in 1995, he was significantly affected by experimental processes and Superstructuralism by meeting Mutombo Mpanya, a Systems Dynamics theorist at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Dedicating his efforts towards composition and electroacoustic music, he moved to Paris to study in the summer courses at Ircam and eventually met Gérard Pape in 2000 who inspired him to travel deeper on compositional structures and helping clarify a personal understanding of innovation as it relates to integrating traditional instruments with computers and object-oriented programming environments such as Max/MSP and SuperCollider.

He was a part of the 8-month compositon course at the Center of Composition for the Music of Iannis Xenakis - CCMIX (formerly Les Atelier Upic) in Paris. True was then accepted into the Electronic Music and Recording Media program at Mills College of California where he earned his Masters degree. There he studied composition with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros and Maggi Payne. During this time, he continued his European interests giving lectures and having his work performed. His work has been performed in The United States and in Europe. He resides with his wife in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Find out more about True at his website located at http://www.musicaveritas.com.

"I need a poem, a master poem.
Once and for all I need a poem to destroy poetry and break these iron bars.
A poem to make the stars blink, a poem to trouble the sleep of the chained,
Some words and strikes of magic to be heard through all the world.
Power sounds to hurl all wrong to appropriate places."

- DELBERT TIBBS