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30. Survival of the beautiful // DAVID ROTHENBERG

30. Survival of the beautiful // DAVID ROTHENBERG

Update: 2025-09-16
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Why is there so much beauty in the natural world? What can we learn from jamming with the more-than-human? Join interspecies musician David Rothenberg and myself as we explore these questions and experience some bird-bug-clarinet collaboration, perched on a hillside outside of LA.

David Rothenberg is a musician, composer and professor of philosophy and music, with a longtime interest in understanding other species by making music with them. In this conversation we follow his journey from being a young environmentalist collaborating with deep ecology founder Arne Næss to his current work as interspecies musician and philosopher, playing music with bugs, birds, whales, ponds and more.

* David’s website

* Documentary (free) Why Birds Sing:

* Pond music

* Arne Næss and deep ecology

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30. Survival of the beautiful // DAVID ROTHENBERG

30. Survival of the beautiful // DAVID ROTHENBERG

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