David Rothenberg

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David Rothenberg (* 1962 ) is an American philosopher and jazz musician ( clarinets ).

Act

Rothenburg studied until 1984 (Bachelor of Art) at Harvard University and received his doctorate in 1991 from Boston University . He was influenced early on by Paul Winter 's Common Ground Album, on which Paul Winter mixed his own compositions with whale and bird sounds and began to pursue similar paths: “I'm interested in using music to learn more about the natural world to learn. ”After graduating, he traveled in Europe and played jazz clarinet. He heard the recorded song of a hermit thrush and perceived structures that reminded him of a solo by Miles Davis .

As a musician he worked with Peter Gabriel , Hamid Drake , Glen Velez , Karl Berger , Nils Økland , Jan Bang , Ray Phiri , Adam Rudolph / Go: Organic Orchestra and Iva Bittová, among others .

Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology . He developed a special interest in the sounds of animals, which he understands as music . He is a composer and jazz musician at the same time, whose books and recordings show a longstanding interest in enhancing the communication of other biological species, e.g. B. to understand the chirping of cicadas by making music with them.

Works

Fonts

  • Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature (University of California Press, 1993)
  • Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes (Codhill Press, 2001)
  • Sudden Music: Improvisation, Art, Nature (University of Georgia Press, 2002)
  • Always the Mountains (University of Georgia Press, 2003)
  • Why Birds Sing (Basic Books, 2005); German under the title Why birds sing: A musical search for traces (Spektrum Verlag 2008)
  • Thousand Mile Song (Basic Books, 2008)
  • Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution (Bloomsbury Press, 2011)
  • Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise (St Martins Press, 2013)
as editor
  • Peter Reed, David Rothenberg Wisdom in the Open Air: The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology (University of Minnesota Press, 1992)
  • The Book of Music and Nature (Wesleyan, 2001)
  • Writing the World: On Globalization (MIT, 2005)
  • Arne Naess : The future in our hands: A deep ecological philosophy (Trickster, 2013)

Discographic notes

  • 1992 Nobody Could Explain It ( Accurate )
  • 1995: David Rothenberg / Glen Velez / Graeme Boone On the Cliffs of the Heart (Newtone); according to JAZZIZ Magazine one of the ten most important jazz CDs of the year
  • 2000: Unamuno (Felmay)
  • 2005: David Rothenberg, Karnataka College of Percussion, RA Ramamani Bangalore Wild (rec. 1998)
  • 2009: Whale Music Remixed (Terra Nova), with DJ Spooky , Scanner , Lukas Ligeti , Mira Calix , Ben Neill , Robert Rich u. a.
  • 2010: David Rothenberg, Marilyn Crispell : One Dark Night I Left My Silent House ( ECM Records ).
  • 2011: David Rothenberg & Lewis Porter : Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (Terra Nova)
  • 2014: Pauline Oliveros , David Rothenberg, Timothy Hill Cicada Dream Band ( Gruenrekorder )
  • 2015: David Rothenberg, Korhan Erel Berlin Bülbül (Gruenrekorder)
  • 2018: Gunhild Seim , Marilyn Crispell, David Rothenberg Grenseland (Drollehålå)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c entry (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
  2. ↑ Claudia Dreifus: A conversation with David Rothenberg; Ode With a Nightingale, and a Thrush, and a Lyrebird . In: New York Times , September 20, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2018. 
  3. ↑ Ronni Reich: NJIT professor finds nothing cuckoo in serenading our feathered friends . In: Star Ledger . Retrieved August 8, 2018. 
  4. ↑ meeting
  5. ^ David Rothenberg Nobody Could Explain It . AllMusic. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ meeting
  7. ↑ Review (G. Nastos) at Allmusic (English)
  8. ↑ Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast , Jazz Times
  9. ↑ Meeting (Cicada Dream Band)
  10. ↑ Seth Rozanoff Berlin Bulbul , Computer Music Journal 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rothenberg, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962