By David Rothenberg
In Thousand Mile Song, musician and thinker David Rothenberg makes use of the enigma of whale sounds to discover no matter if we will be able to actually comprehend nonhuman minds. Interviewing students around the globe as they try to decipher underwater track, Rothenberg tells the tale of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as massive because the ocean. alongside the way in which, he performs his clarinet stay with whales of their local habitats, from Russia to Hawaii, making interspecies track that looks at the integrated CD. Richly distinctive and deeply interesting, Thousand Mile Song is an ingenious examine the main interesting creatures of the sea.
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