“Music Beyond Humanity”
Clarinetist, author, and philosopher David Rothenberg has spent his life making music far removed from the usual contexts of performance stages or recording studios. Rothenberg’s collaborators have included cicada swarms, katydids, nightingales, lyrebirds, warblers, whales, and dolphins.

His experiences have given him a unique and valuable perspective on our human musicality and how it relates to the totality of Earth’s ecosystems. In this episode we hear David interacting musically with his non-human collaborators, and thinking aloud about what they have to teach us in a time of climate transformation. Featuring videos by Lewis Rapkin along with underwater footage and interviews from 2021 and 2025.