From This World, Another

by David Rothenberg, Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch and David Rothenberg share an affinity for improvising music, thinking about improvisation, and the songs of birds. Quarantined this past year like the rest of us, they decided to make an album together online.But then how best to release it? In today’s world music streams freely and endlessly, and listeners are overwhelmed with choices. How to know what it is we may be hearing? The two of them, writers and well as players, decided to talk our way through the music, and the ideas behind the music, and speak a book together. This is the result.

110 pages, Paperback

Published April 24, 2021

About the author

David Rothenberg is a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research investigates the musicality of animals and the role of nature in philosophy. He received his BA from Harvard College in 1984 and his PhD from Boston University in 1991.