David Borden

David Borden is an American composer and keyboardist, born in Boston in 1938, who settled in Ithaca, New York, in the late 1960s. In 1969, with support from Robert Moog, he founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, an ensemble built around synthesizers. His minimalist, contrapuntal writing for that group, above all the twelve-part cycle The Continuing Story of Counterpoint (1976-1987), is the work he is best known for. David Borden studied at the Eastman School of Music and at Harvard, and his first composition teachers were the jazz musicians Jimmy Giuffre and Jaki Byard.