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  • Nightingales in Berlin

    Searching for the Perfect Sound

    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, ... Leer más

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  • Stadt der Nachtigallen

    Berlins perfekter Sound

    Traducido por Silvia Morawetz ...
    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 imWettkampf 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Music and Nature

    An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts

    Edición de David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Whale Music

    Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Survival of the Beautiful

    Art, Science, and Evolution

    "The peacock's tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in ... Leer más

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  • Bug Music

    How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise

    " Bug Music is a cool groove of biology, music, and human culture from an interspecies musician and scholar fully in tune with nature." —John Marzluff, author of Gifts of the CrowWhen the Northeastern United States cicadas emerge from their seventeen-year cycle, those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Music and Nature

    An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts

    Edición de David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature ... Leer más

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  • Sudden Music

    Improvisation, Sound, Nature

    Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity ... Leer más

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  • Un Rossignol dans la ville

    Traducido por Marie Ray ...
    Qu’est-ce que la science peut avoir à dire de la beauté d’un chant d’oiseau ?Icône de la scène musicale expérimentale new-yorkaise, David Rothenberg est un pionnier de la musique interespèces : il joue avec les baleines, les insectes et les rossignols à la recherche du son parfait et du fameux “effet Sharawadji”, qui qualifie la beauté de l’irrégularité recherchée. Mais il est également ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Fortune in My Eyes

    A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice and Political Passion

    David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American civil war. In his memoir, Fortune in My Eyes, his journey includes many of the most celebrated names in the theater: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Boyer, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Charles Laughton, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Stadt der Nachtigallen - Berlins perfekter Sound

    Narrado por Eva Mattes, Julian Mehne ...

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    57 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

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    How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

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