Music from Stephen Nachmanovitch and David Rothenberg, with guest singer Ashlynn Manning Teng.

David Rothenberg has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. As a composer and jazz clarinetist, Rothenberg has at least forty albums out under his own name, a record on ECM with Marilyn Crispell, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House. His book Why Birds Sing is also published in England, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. It was turned into a feature length BBC TV documentary. His book, recording, and film Nightingales in Berlin, was published in April 2019. In 2024 he released Secret Sounds of Ponds, a book/music/performance initiative which reveals the unknown music beneath the surface of even the most ordinary of ponds.

Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist and at the intersections of multimedia, performing arts, ecology, and philosophy. He is the author of two books on the creative process, Free Play and The Art of Is. Born in 1950, he graduated in 1971 from Harvard with a degree in psychology and in 1975 from the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. He has taught and lectured in many countries on creativity and the spiritual, social, and ethical underpinnings of art. Since the 1970s he has been a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola, and electric violin. He has presented lectures, master classes and workshops at many universities and conservatories, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals.

In 2021 Stephen & David released a recording and a companion book in which they spoke together about improvisation, playing with the songs of birds, and the nature of creativity, “From This World, Another.”