In this podcast, hear from the Hudson Valley, interspecies musician and professor David Rothenberg, who explores if bird songs are music, why birds sing at dawn, and how whale music got the world to care.
Musician/philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful & many other books, published in at least eleven languages. His more than thirty recordings include One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, and most recently, In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Umru, Iva Bittová, & the Karnataka College of Percussion. Nightingales in Berlin is his latest book and film. Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also a Deep Listening practitioner.
