Keren Rosenbaum is an interdisciplinary composer, conductor, and educator performing internationally for over 30 years. She works inbetween disciplines such as music, intermedia art, noise, public intervention and philosophy with a music genre she calls Reflexive Music. Her performative stage - The Active Listening Playground is where performances, workshops, exhibitions and festivals are dedicated for participants to engage with playing reflexive music. Rosenbaum began her music education at the age of 7 Completed her at the Royal Academy in The Hague, among her teachers: Kogan, Shapira, Schidlowsky (Tel Aviv) Andriessen, Bergeijk, D. Man & Barlow (Netherlands) & Tania Leon and Walman (NY).

 

In 1999 Keren curated the first interdisciplinary music festival and founded the REFLEX Ensemble, a worldwide community of musicians and artists that gained world recognition for their unique exhibitions, workshops, and ongoing performances of Reflexive Music. Often described by both listeners and performers as "passionately inventive" and "on the edge," Reflexive Music has given rise to the Active Listening Playground (ALP) Approach & Tools.

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Rosenbaum’s compositions and contemporary notation, specifically her signature conducting-via-earphones technique, is introduced in Notations21 book by author Theresa Sauer as a groundbreaking approach to provide the room with personal expression demanding a higher sense of aesthetic responsibility from each performer and audience alike. Often described with the quality of making one experience deeply and unforgettable the act of the play. “...Like a roller coaster ride”.

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In 1999 following the success of initiating and curating the first interdisciplinary music festival she founded the REFLEX Ensemble, a worldwide community of musicians and various artistic forms, this innovative performative approach to music, stage and new technology. The ensemble gained world recognition and the unique concept have produced performances, exhibitions, workshops, and ongoing project that continues to perform Rosenbaum’s Reflexive Music.

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In 2013 Rosenbaum founded the Composing Community Global Organization. Home to the Reflexive Music Academy, it is dedicated to teach and spread Reflexive Music through Active Listening Playground (ALP) Approach & Tools. ALP Approach helps foster positive connections, creativity, and innovation using a practice of playfulness (the art of infinite game). ALP Approach is practiced around the world. Al Akhawayn University, Ifran; Tel Aviv University, The Arts University, Helsinki; WE ACT, The Goethe Institute, Chelsea Art Museum, NY; Musicians without Borders and Unesco to name a few.

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In her compositions, Rosenbaum employs pre-recorded soundtracks, live electronics, contemporary notation, and her signature conducting-via-earphones technique. While structured and choreographed, the music allows for a degree of freedom that both provides room for personal expression and demands a higher sense of aesthetic responsibility from each performer. In 2009 her composition ‘Inbetween’ was published and described as a leading notational concepts by Theresa Sauer in her book Notations21 resulting in an ongoing worldwide collaborations, workshops and exhibitions.  Often described both by listeners and performers as "passionately inventive" and "on the edge", with the quality of making one experience deeply and unforgettable the act of the music. “...Like a roller coaster ride”.

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In 2011 Rosenbaum founded the Composing Community Global Org. The organization is the home for the Reflexive Music Academy dedicated to teach and spread Reflexive music using the ALP (Active Listening Playground) Approach & tools developed from Rosenbaum’s music. Institutions and organizations such as Al Akhawayn (Morocco), Tel Aviv University (Israel), University of Arts (Helsinki), Goethe Institute, Chelsea Art Museum (USA), Musicians without Borders and Peace Corps have commissioned compositions to discover the potential for innovative communication and sustainable growth in their communities.

 

In 2019 Composing Community launched its latest program aiming to bring Reflexive Communication practice with ALP Approach to the workplace fallowed by the formation of Executive Playground dedicated to inspire cultural change in organizations around the world bringing back music into the workplace and supporting communities in need around the world Active Listening Playgrounds.

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..."Music score (Partitura) is and will always be just a recommendation for a moment that music can form. It is very much a plan of planning and we should be only focusing on playing the best we can...