David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg (born 1962) is an American clarinetist, composer and writer who teaches philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is known for playing music with birds, whales and other animals, and for books that treat animal sounds as music, among them Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song, a study of whale song that came with recordings of his clarinet duets with whales. Rothenberg studied at Harvard and took a PhD at Boston University.