David Rothenberg will be presenting at next week’s class (April 6) on Music & Animals. Please read these fascinating materials in advance:
Investigation of musicality in birdsong
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/DR_Rothenberg_Hearing-Research.pdf
Chapter 6 of “Why Birds Sing”
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/DR_WBS_chap6.pdf
Chapters 1 and 2 of “Thousand Mile Song”
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/DR_TMS_chap1-2.pdf
Chapter 3 of “Survival of the Beautiful”
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/DR_Survival-of-the-Beautiful_chap3.pdf
Chapter 5 of “Bug Music”
http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/DR_Bug-Music_chap5.pdf
For further, optional background on David’s work, you can consult:
Do humpback whales really respond to a clarinet playing along?
http://www.thousandmilesong.com/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/wail_with_whale.pdf
New notation for humpback whale song developed over the years since then:
https://medium.com/@dealville/whales-synchronize-their-songs-across-oceans-and-theres-sheet-music-to-prove-it-b1667f603844#.h178gy6nw
Using this notation with deaf teenagers in the Dominican Republic:
http://www.themuseseekproject.com/#!whale-muse-seek/c1k39
A Radiolab show on Rothenberg and his music with whales, birds, bugs:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/292987-septendecennial-sing-along/
My next project, playing live with nightingales in Berlin:
http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/jamming-with-the-nightingales-of-berlin
https://terranovamusic.bandcamp.com/album/and-vex-the-nightingale
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=13746
