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In Secret Sounds of Ponds, environmental musician and ecopoet David Rothenberg tosses a microphone into a pond and we read (and hear) about an entirely new realm: the unexpected and stirring rhythms of some of the smallest and loudest creatures on Earth. Recording the songs of the animals and plants inhabiting each pond reveals a different perspective than what we meet in our human society. Every chapter contains multiple full-color photograph...

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The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science.Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining, Whale Music uses the enigma of whale sounds to open up whales' underwater world of sonic mystery....

A beautiful and surprising exploration of a phenomenon that is at once familiar and baffling: the mystery of why birds sing.

David Rothenberg hat Musik mit Walen, Insekten, mit Wasser und Wind gemacht: Den perfekten Sound haben ihm dann aber die Berliner Nachtigallen geliefert, die dort im Wettkampf mit dem Stadtlärm über sich hinauswachsen. Der amerikanische Musikologe und Musiker Rothenberg, eine Ikone der Experimentalmusikszene weltweit, hat eine Symphonie der Großstadt geschrieben, das der Nachtigall ein musikalisches Denkmal setzt. Rothenberg, der Wissenschaft...

Open Air mit Nachtigall und Klarinette Der weltbekannte Experimentalmusiker David Rothenberg hat Musik mit Walen und Insekten, mit Wasser und Wind gemacht: Den faszinierendsten Sound hat er jedoch bei den Berliner Nachtigallen gefunden, die dort im Wettkampf mit dem Stadtlärm über sich hinauswachsen. Er setzt sich frühmorgens in die Berliner Hasenheide und trifft eine Neuro- und Verhaltensbiologin, lässt sich vom Himmel über Berlin durch die S...

The expression of his eyes remained the same, a cold, piercing sadness. Yet his final words were 'Tell them I had a happy life.' This poetic book examines the way Ludwig Wittgenstein has influenced artists of the word beyond his own field, thereby touching the subject of how philosophy can be relevant at large. By studying the ways Wittgenstein's theories have been bent, transformed, and expanded, David Rothenberg shows that responses to the r...

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions, --from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ever listened closely to a nightingale's song? It's a strange and unsettling sort of composition--an eclectic assortment of chirps, whirs, trills, clicks, whistles, twitters, and gurgles. At times i...

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A collection of 19 essays by David Rothenberg, observer of the interplay between nature, culture and technology. In settings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in New York, he discusses the Hudson River School of painters, ecoterrorism, suburbia, the World Wide Web, and more.

Weaving memoir, travelogue and philosophical reflection, this title presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity. It is a testament to the creative power of improvisation. The accompanying CD includes 11 of Rothenburg's compositions

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In spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book examines the convergence of these two styles in polyphonic music and its broader poetic, artistic, and devotional context from c.1200-c.1500.

FORTUNE IN MY EYES: A MEMOIR OF BROADWAY GLAMOUR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL PASSION

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In the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle--the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasion compared their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending rhythmic cycle is just one unique example of how the pulse and noise of insects has taught humans the meaning of rhythm, from the whirr of a cricket's win...

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Survival of the Beautiful" is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty--and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.

A provocative book explores the relationship of music and the natural world.

Water and its multifaceted relationship to humans, as portrayed by a wide range of writers and photographers.