By David Rothenberg
ISBN-10: 0465018890
ISBN-13: 9780465018895
In Thousand Mile Song, musician and thinker David Rothenberg makes use of the enigma of whale sounds to discover even if we will really comprehend nonhuman minds. Interviewing students all over the world as they try to decipher underwater track, Rothenberg tells the tale of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as huge because the ocean. alongside the way in which, he performs his clarinet dwell with whales of their local habitats, from Russia to Hawaii, making interspecies track that looks at the incorporated CD. Richly specified and deeply unique, Thousand Mile Song is an ingenious examine the main fascinating creatures of the sea.
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It was to sell for the equivalent of $3, one third the price of the American edition, so as to be accessible to the largest possible number of people. ” I tried to explain to him about whales, but since I didn’t remember a thing about whales myself, I clammed up. Then I realized with a sense of fathomless annihilation that the old man of just now was the “me” of the past and the child none other than the “me” of the future. The face of the child, looking up silently at me, distinct in the evening light, was crumbling away.
There is nothing quite like hearing the jazz of nature echoing in this giant church. Those who call Winter a New Age musician miss the point, that he is trying to reach beyond humanity to the hope of reconnecting our marauding kind with the gentle voices of the eternal, natural world. He is actually seeking something sacred. Not thinking of himself as a singer, Winter rarely performs “Ocean Dream” today. His next record, Callings, in 1980, was the first on his newly founded Living Music label. Winter wanted total control of the recording process on this, a concept album featuring a sea lion pup named “Silkie” on a fantastic journey from Baja California all the way to Magdalen Island off of Prince Edward Island, where harp seals are slaughtered for their fur.
Armed with a dozen copies of Songs of the Humpback Whale, with its Japanese liner notes, he took off on August 6, 1970. In advance of the journey, a committee of six eminent Japanese scientists was created to tackle the issue of whale conservation in Japan, under the leadership of Seija Kaya, former president of Tokyo University. The group included the former head of Japan’s atomic energy commission, the director of their national institute of genetics, and the director of Japan’s primate research center.
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