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David Rothenberg
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A series of talks on music, nature, sound, and the world around us hosted by musician and writer David Rothenberg

  1. Joe Boyd: A Lifetime Seeking Unexpected Music

    10/07/2025

    Joe Boyd: A Lifetime Seeking Unexpected Music

    Seems like whenever musical history was made over the last sixty years, Joe Boyd was there. He produced Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Bragg, and introduced startling world music to Western audiences, including Trio Bulgarka, Ivo Papasov, and Toumani Diabate. The founder of Hannibal Records, He's even the guy who refused to unplug Bob Dylan when Pete Seeger complained at the Newport Folk Festival. So what does he think about what's happened to music today?

    1h 41m
  2. Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment

    11/30/2024

    Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment

    An hour and a half with the great improvising pianist Marilyn Crispell, winner of a 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Award. We learn how and when she began improvising, and how she has learned to combine energy and calm over the course of a long and ever-changing musical career. Photo by Andrew Pothecary.

    1h 34m
  3. W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?

    11/02/2024

    W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?

    A conversation with 86-year old musical master Allaudin Mathieu, who started out arranging for Duke Ellington and went on to become a great mentor and spiritual force, today making some of the best work of his career and continue to teach nonstop. Here we discuss his new memoir The Shrine Thief, what he is listening for, and how much theory and history a good musician needs to know.

    1h 34m
  4. What Club Will Have Me? David Rothenberg Interviewed by Victoria Vesna

    04/15/2024

    What Club Will Have Me? David Rothenberg Interviewed by Victoria Vesna

    Finally I dare to make myself the subject of an interview in my own podcast. The art/science pioneer Victoria Vesna grilled me on how I got where I am today: What I learned from John Cage, R. Murray Schafer, and all those birds, bugs, and whales I have made music with for years.

    1h 7m
  5. David James Duncan: The East in the West, the West in the East

    01/24/2024

    David James Duncan: The East in the West, the West in the East

    David James Duncan worked on his masterwork novel SUN HOUSE for nearly two decades, and it has now arrived. I met him last in the early days of the project, and now sixteen years later we sit down to talk about why the best things often take time, and why it was indeed that we all spent so much of  our youth musing on distant spiritualities and philosophies. How to put all that effort into practice? This far-reaching novel gives us the answer.

    1h 6m
  6. Sun Chung: Sonic Mystery

    06/02/2023

    Sun Chung: Sonic Mystery

    Sun Chung founded Red Hook Records after working for more than a decade at ECM Records in Munich. It's rapidly becoming a beacon for what a creative music label can be in our tumultuous times. In this extensive conversation, we discuss why it can take years to set up a recording session for improvised music, and why it then might take a few more years to get a project ready for release. Sun Chung, booked up with releases until 2025, explains his meticulous process.

    48 min
  7. Glen Moore's Bass: The Sound of Desire

    03/06/2023

    Glen Moore's Bass: The Sound of Desire

    A far-reaching conversation with one of the finest bass players of our time, Glen Moore, known for his work with the Paul Winter Consort and Oregon, he also recorded many albums on ECM and Intuition with the likes of Tim Hardin, Larry Coryell, Art Lande, Rob Scheps, Larry Karush, and of course Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, and Collin Walcott. Why is he now living in a remote town in the desert? Why has he started playing a brand-new tuning on the bass now that he's over 80 years old?

    1h 5m
  8. Lisa Wells: It's a Beautiful F*cking World

    03/28/2022

    Lisa Wells: It's a Beautiful F*cking World

    Today I speak with the poet, activist, and environmental writer Lisa Wells, author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. We talk about the anger of youth, the fallibility of heroes, and the value of art and beauty in dark times.

    58 min
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A series of talks on music, nature, sound, and the world around us hosted by musician and writer David Rothenberg

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  • Creator
    David Rothenberg
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Soundwalker
  • Show Website
    Soundwalker