David Rothenberg
SOOLO concert
On Sunday, 1st of September at 4 pm, David Rothenberg will perform at the Tallinn Art Hall as part of the SOOLO concert series!
ECM recording artist David Rothenberg has performed and recorded on clarinet with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Glen Velez, Elliot Sharp, Robert Jürjendal, Markus Reuter, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Most of his work has an environmental theme and involves the sounds of nature, live and in the studio. He has twenty-two CDs out under his own name, including “On the Cliffs of the Heart,” named one of the top ten releases of 1995 by Jazziz magazine and “One Dark Night I Left My Silent House,” a duet album with pianist Marilyn Crispell, called “une petite miracle” by Le Monde and named by The Village Voice one of the ten best CDs of 2010.
Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, book and CD, published in seven languages and the subject of a BBC television documentary. He is also the author of numerous other books on music, art, and nature, including Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales, and Survival of the Beautiful, about aesthetics in evolution. His book and CD Bug Music, featuring the sounds of the entomological world, has been featured on PBS News Hour and in the New Yorker. His latest recordings are Cicada Dream Band, Cool Spring and Berlin Bülbül. His latest book, film, and recording is entitled Nightingales in Berlin.
Rothenberg is a distinguished professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. For his solo concert he will play clarinet, bass clarinet, and remix and resample sounds of birds, whales, insects, and water.
The SOOLO concerts are produced in cooperation with the Tallinn Art Hall, curated by Robert Jürjendal. To attend the concert please purchase a Tallinn Art Hall exhibition ticket.
Related events
The Art of Being Good
Exhibition