NS+ presents Deep Nature Listening Featuring musician/philosopher David Rothenberg with New Cicada Trio’s Iva Bittová and Timothy Hill and bioacous... — live event
Photo by Robert Lambert Immerse yourself in Deep Nature Listening with philosopher/musician David Rothenberg, acoustician Benjamin Gottesman, and the New Cicada Trio. Featuring Iva Bittová (vocals and violin), Timothy Hill (overtone singing and guitar), and Rothenberg (clarinets and creatures), the Trio will perform works including the New York premiere of Rothenberg’s Eleven Paths to Animal Music (2025), a piece containing vignettes of natural environments recorded on the composer’s travels, from frogs in the Amazon to nightingales in the Camargue, from leafcutter ants in Costa Rica to a lake in Brandenburg. It encourages performers to listen closely to whole natural environments and find a way to play within them, and together, using the paths described in Rothenberg’s book, Nightingales in Berlin. Gottesman, whose bioacoustic collaborations span Africa, Indonesia, and Hawaii, will share how listening at scale with acoustic monitoring is changing how we understand and conserve nature. This rich NS+ evening, programmed by Elena Park, is imbued by the legacy of the late Pauline Oliveros, whose deep listening methods have influenced artists across mediums for decades (and a member of the prior incarnation of New Cicada Trio). The program is presented in partnership with BirdLife International and Cornell University’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. Bioacoustician Benjamin L. Gottesman and colleague in Colombia (photo: Elisa Krueger) About NationalSawdust+ Often topical and always imaginative, NationalSawdust+ is a lively performance and conversation series, curated by Elena Park, in which artists and thinkers share their passion for music and explore timely ideas, making surprising connections. Since October 2015, NS+ has been a home for intimate stories and unexpected artmaking, blurring boundaries between genres and disciplines. This season, NS+ For Nature continues to investigate the interplay and collision between the natural and human worlds, featuring musicians, artists, writers, and activists working to preserve and restore the environment. Recent programs have focused on ocean and riverkeeping, decarbonization and regeneration, and indigenous wisdom. Tapping luminaries from theater, film and visual art, literature, science, technology, and beyond, NS+ guests have included Jad Abumrad, Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Catie Cuan, Ava DuVernay, Gandini Juggling, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Vicky Takamine Holt, Susie Ibarra, Yo-Yo Ma, Domingo Morales, Nico Muhly, Ellen Reid, Isabella Rossellini, Carl Hancock Rux, Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith, Patti Smith, and esperanza spalding. The NS+ team includes Avery Leigh Draut and Ras Dia, with creative input from Peter Zuspan. NationalSawdust+ For Nature is made possible by the generous support of the Wescustogo Foundation. Please join us for other programs in our NS+ Series: June 10: NS+ presents "what we keep, what we throw away" with composer Caroline Shaw, writer Sarah DeLappe, chef Shenarri Freeman, and cookbook author Melissa Clark This is a seated performance. If you require accessibility accommodations, please email [email protected].
Starts: 2026-06-16T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2026-06-17T12:00:00Z
Where: 80 North 6th Street, New York 11249, United States
Price: $0.0