Tony Levin, Pauline Oliveros, and David Rothenberg live at the 2nd Septendecennial Kingston Cicada Festival, Kingston, NY, June 2013

Tony Levin: bass, Chapman stick
Pauline Oliveros, V-Accordion
David Rothenberg, live cicadas, clarinet, soprano sax, iPad

http://deeplistening.org/site/cicadas

Levin Oliveros Rothenberg Live at the Kingston Cicada Festival

Each individual Magicicada tredecim makes a single "Phaaaaroooah!" sound.  Millions of them together turn into a forest-wide drone.  Starting with just one insect singing, I demonstrate how this happens by repeating the sound unevenly, over and over again using uneven grain delays.

One 13-year cicada turned into many

the final track from my 2013 CD BUG MUSIC, available on Terra Nova records, together with the book of the same name from St Martins Press,  www.bugmusicbook.com

Featuring the sounds of a pine sawyer beetle along with all sorts of insect-inspired electronics...  made with Ableton Live also using sounds from Reaktor Lazer Bass and Camel Alchemy

The Year of Insect Thinking

And example of music produced out of one sample of a singing snowy tree cricket by the Max for Live Patch Cricket Sync that creates rhythms emulating the phase-delay mechanism used by snowy tree crickets.   http://www.bugmusicbook.com/#!cricket-sync/c17kh

The science on which this device is based on is described by Thomas Walker here for crickets,  http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/s166p891.pdf, and here by David Michael for frogs, http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/musical2007/papers/michael.pdf

The patch was created by VJ Manzo and David Rothenberg, and you may download it here.  https://mega.co.nz/#!wtgVTRwA!DM2I6ajzOp1st1NlsXnP6tX-KgEH7rnELLQYrjbPMU0    You need Ableton Live 9 and Max for Live 6 in order for it to run.   


Cricket Sync Max for Live Patch, example

This underwater beetle makes a sound nearly as loud as a whale by waving his penis underwater

Lesser Water Boatman, the loudest underwater insect

Some minutes from our concert live with nightingales in Treptower Park, the Waldrezital sponsored by WIE Kultur in Berlin.  One live nightingale singing by the River Spree--nothing can faze him!  Plus David Rothenberg, clarinet; Korhan Erel, live sampling using Samplr on iPad.  All sound processing is live, not added later.  Performed by chance on May 9th, 2014, the 69th Anniversary of the Battle of Berlin where 80,000 soldiers died.  Now released on Terra Nova Music, http://www.terranovamusic.net/#/tn1511/

Live with Nightingales in Treptower Park

From our upcoming album project, "Red Mountain Gold Mountain"
Jeffrey Goldberg, piano
David Rothenberg, clarinet and laptop

Nightingale Season

Live from the Vs. Interpretation Festival in Prague, July 2014,
in memory of the great Charlie Haden

Another Song For The Whales (for Charlie Haden)

A remix of part of the soundtrack of the film SONG FROM THE FOREST, www.songfromtheforest.com , coming to theaters in the USA this spring, which tells the story of Louis Sarno, who came from New Jersey to live thirty years with pygmies in the Central African Republic, recording their music.  In the film je comes back to the USA with his 12-year old son Samedi, to show his son the world Louis came from.

The text comes from a section of the film where Jim Jarmusch, once Louis Sarno's roommate, explains a view of the world that he and Louis have always shared.

This Is The Way The World Is (featuring Jim Jarmusch)

Jim Black and David Rothenberg live at Quinns in Beacon, NY, the headquarters for adventurous music in the Hudson Valley.  Thank you James Keepnews

Jim Black and David Rothenberg Live at Quinns

Some thoughts on evolution, birds, dinosaurs and more....

Dylan On Darwin

this is the sound a Costa's hummingbird makes while diving through the air, with its feathers.  Recorded by Christopher J. Clark

Costa's hummingbird, dive sound made by feathers

This is the song of the Costa's hummingbird, made with its vocal organ, the syrinx.  Sound like the feather song?  Recorded by Christopher J. Clark

Costa's hummingbird, vocal song

recorded in Alaskan Arctic waters by the other Chris Clark.
Does it sound like the Costa's hummingbird song?  Does to me.

Bowhead whale song

Live with Sam Lee, Matthew Barley and a nightingale at midnight during the Brighton Festival, 2015

Sam Lee and David Rothenberg with a nightingale

Matthew Barley on cello live with a nightingale, midnight in May 2015, part of the Brighton Festival nightingale encounters organized by Sam Lee.  http://brightonfestival.org/event/5857/sam_lees_nightingale_walk/   Hopefully we'll do this again next year.  Recorded by David Rothenberg

Matthew Barley live with a nightingale

Nightingale Short Dry

Excerpt from a live concert featuring one singing nightingale plus Cymin Samawathie, Korhan Erel, Alexandra Duvekot and David Rothenberg

Live With Nightingales in Berlin

First Class Blackbird Sound

So long Jefferson Porter, my good friend for so many years.  Gone from us far too soon.  We recorded this together many years ago...

Inevitable Rd EP

Inevitable Rd

Pauline Oliveros, "Poem for Change"
from THE BOOK OF MUSIC AND NATURE (Wesleyan 2001)
RIP Pauline, we will miss you.

The Disc Of Music And Nature

Poem For Change (Excerpt)

On The Paris Metro April 2017

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a medley of different treehopper recordings made by Reginald Cocroft, detected by laser vibrometers on the stalks of the plants they live on.  More details at: http://treehoppers.insectmuseum.org/public/site/treehoppers/home/sounds

Treehoppers Vibrating Trees

the sound of mountain pine bark beetles, who are destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of Western American forests.  Recording by David Dunn.  More information at: http://www.acousticecology.org/dunn/solit.html

pine bark beetles destroying whole forests

David Rothenberg plays clarinet live through an underwater speaker so that the whales can hear him, then he records the whole thing through an underwater microphone, called a hydrophone.  Part of a French TV film based on his work in THOUSAND MILE SONG the book and WHALE MUSIC the CD, film will be out this summer, made by Tomawak Productions in Paris

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