Join us for a very special opportunity to hear philosopher and musician David Rothenberg make music with whales and birds! David will speak of the joys and subtleties of engaging other species in communication through music and will share some thoughts on current and future creative pursuits.

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David Rothenberg has traveled the world making music live with birds and whales, trying to use music to communicate with creatures who sing rather than speak. He has found out that it is too simple to just say that animals sing to attract mates and defend territories, as biology likes to say. Maybe they are actually making music, and perhaps jamming along is a better route to interspecies communication and tapping into to the beauty hidden in nature.

ABOUT DAVID ROTHENBERG
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Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. It was turned into a feature length BBC TV documentary. Rothenberg has also written Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record, Hand’s End, and Always the Mountains. His articles have appeared in Parabola, Orion, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, Kyoto Journal, The Globe and Mail and Sierra. Rothenberg is also a composer and jazz clarinetist, and he has seven CDs out under his own name, including On the Cliffs of the Heart, named one of the top ten CDs by Jazziz Magazine in 1995. His latest book is Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales. His first CD on ECM Records, with pianist Marilyn Crispell, will be released in 2009. Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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