Music with Nature: Secret Sounds of Ponds

Musician and author David Rothenberg will make “music with nature” at two performances at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Saturday, Apr. 20. During this performance at dusk, he will play with underwater pond sounds at Halcyon Lake, inspired by his latest book "Secret Sounds of Ponds." Rothenberg sees his interspecies collaboration as making music with the sounds of the natural world, producing something that no one species could create alone. Check-in for both performances will be outside Story Chapel.

David Rothenberg has made more than forty recordings and has performed and/or recorded with Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, Elliott Sharp, Umru, and Iva Bittová, among others. In 2023 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for "For the Birds." His most recent work includes the book "Whale Music" and the film "Nightingales In Berlin." Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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