David Rothenberg has been played on NTS shows including Confused Temporalities , with Madagascar Whale One first played on 1 October 2015.

Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing (Basic Books, 2005), also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. His feature-length documentary Why Birds Sing was shown on BBC4 in June, 2007. Rothenberg is also the author of Sudden Music: Improvisation, Art, Nature (Georgia, 2002), Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes (Codhill Press, 2001), Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature (California, 1993), and Always the Mountains (Georgia, 2003).

His most recent book is Thousand Mile Song, about…