There’s even a never-before recorded legendary Pete Seeger song, “The World’s Last Whale.” This is a record that will change the way you listen to the sea, and lead you to appreciate beautiful and little-known sounds that come from the world’s watery depths. Studio pieces complement these with killer beluga beats, thrumming sperm whale clicks, subsonic fin whale beats and Rothenberg’s own rich bass clarinet tones, plus the contributions of the great ECM violinists Nils Økland and Michelle Makarski. Here are live interspecies jams unlike anything you’ve ever heard. Two pure whale recordings are included for listeners’ own remixing pleasure, belugas from Russia’s white sea, and one lone male humpback off the shore of Maui smack in the middle of mating season.Ī portion of the proceeds from this recording will benefit the Whalesong Project, which broadcasts humpback whale sounds live from Hawaii over the internet.ĭavid Rothenberg traveled from Hawaii to Russia to Canada to make music together with belugas, killers, and the greatest of all animal musicians, the humpbacks. Robert Rich is one of founding figures of dark ambient music. Ben Neill plays a mutantrumpet with two bells. Francisco López is one of the most prolific soundscape artists ever. Strings of Consciousness is BipHop producer Philip Petit. Warren Burt is a major figure in the global avant-garde. Cycle Hiccups hails from Petrozavodsk, which is a very nice place. Lukas Ligeti’s music is a unique fusion of acoustic and electronic, traditional and avantgarde. Mira Calix has recently been composing operas out of insect sounds. Gari Saarimaki lives in an abandoned schoolhouse on a Finnish island. The White Sea Shamans convened once by the White Sea in Karelia. Drummer Stephen Chopek has played with Leon Parker and Alana Davis. British sound artist Scanner has worked with Laurie Anderson, Radiohead, and the Bolshoi Ballet. 3Corners of the World is David Rothenberg and Estonian guitar alchemist Robert Jürjendal. Markus Reuter plays in the Stick Men and the Crimson Projekct. In 2009 he sent copies of this record to some of the world’s finest electronic musicians, with hopes that they might do great things with such unusual material.ĭJ Spooky is an internationally known DJ and conceptual artist. In 2008 David Rothenberg released a recording called Whale Music, which explored the sonic richness of these great beasts’ music and language, live in the ocean and in the studio. Released concurrently with Rothenberg’s new book, Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise (St Martins Press). He is joined by guitarist Robert Jürjendal, who’s worked with Fripp and Eno, Timothy Hill of the Harmonic Choir, Umru Rothenberg on iPad, and millions of tapping, screeching, and howling bugs-Hear them before they hear you.Ĭan you believe humans got their groove from bugs? Listen to this remarkable recording and learn where dubstep really comes from. After working with birds and whales, he now tackles the minute complex tunes of the entomological universe, building songs live nad in the studio with cicadas who emerge only once every seventeen years, treehoppers who tap complex vibrations onto plant stalks, and a tiny beetle who makes one of the animal world’s loudest sounds by vibrating its penis underwater. David Rothenberg decided to investigate the resounding beats of cicadas, crickets, katydids, leafhoppers and water bugs in his unusual third foray into music made with and out of the animal world. Long before birds, long before whales, insects have been thrumming, scraping, and drumming complex beats out into the world. There has been rhythm on this planet for millions of years longer than humans have opened their mouths to sing. The resulting album, Berlin Bülbül, that’s nightingale in Turkish, features the next step in the evolution of human-avian interspecies music. Even when we are back in the studio the possibility of contacting the musical mind of the nightingale still influenced us. About half the tunes on the album are live human/nightingale encounters, and the rest are constructions mixing clarinets and electronic mysteries. David played bass clarinet and clarinet Korhan sampled the birds live with an iPad and later worked in the studio using a laptop with various controllers. David Rothenberg and Korhan Erel went out at midnight to these urban woods last year to jam with these fabulous singing nachtigals. The play of pure tones jarring against click and buzz, it all becomes not a code but a groove, an amphitheater of rhythms in which we strive to find a place. What is it like to play along with a nightingale? It becomes a direct window into the unknown, a touch of communication with a being with whom we cannot speak.
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