David Rothenberg is a musician and philosopher whose books include, Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful, Nightingales in Berlin and his latest book Secret Sounds of Ponds from Roof Books includes QR codes to online audio. He has more than forty recordings including, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House with Marilyn Crispell on ECM, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Rothenberg is a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.