David J Rothenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1410652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Rothenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHENBERG D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6094-372X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin
Bryan Pijanowski. Principles of Soundscape Ecology
Afterword
How have humans made sense of the sounds of nature?Before recording we had to talk and write about them, this is why the nineteenth century had such wonderful words for nature's tones.I. M. Rawes, director of the London Sound Survey, assembled a wonderful book called Honk, Conk, and Squacket: Fabulous and Forgotten Soundwords from a Vanished Age of Listening (London Sound Survey, 2016) that compiled some of these colourful, generally forgotten te…
You Are with Us in the Wind
Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300–1550 , by Sarah Ann Long
Like most people living through the current Covid-19 pandemic, citizens of European cities in the late Middle Ages experienced ongoing fear of disease and death, the most prominent though far from only cause of which was bubonic plague. As Sarah Ann Long states at the beginning of her excellent study, “The disease first appeared in Western Europe in 1347, recurring every ten to fifteen years until well into the eighteenth century, and had a profo…
The Point Is to Change It
Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond
It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s…
The Book of Music and Nature
This innovative book and virtual, web-based CD, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship wi…
Playing into the Machine
Two musicians who have focused on playing acoustic wind instruments into electronics for the purposes of enhancing their original sound reflect on how the use of such new technologies inherently pushes “old technologies” toward a new aesthetics of improvisation
Whale Music
The author played clarinet in accompaniment with a singing male humpback whale off the coast of Maui. A sound spectrogram suggests that the whale may have altered his song in response to the clarinet. This observation is consistent with the fact that humpback whales rapidly change their song during breeding season from week to week. A male humpback whale may be able to quickly match new pitched, musical sounds it has never heard before—a result d…
Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law
The field of transitional justice is entering a new phase born of several decades of experience and a maturation of the practical and theoretical engagement with the complex set of problems involved in facing past atrocities. Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach focuses attention on the issue of guilty pleas in international criminal law as an area of legal practice that merits additional attenti…
On Biocultural Diversity
You Make My Heart Sing
Last March I went to Pittsburgh to play music live with birds. The plan was to arrive at dawn, to catch the wary singers at their best—in the early morning chorus, when the most sound was happening. I met my friend Michael Pestel at the gates of the National Aviary, a mostly forgotten federal institution in a rundown neighborhood. I had never heard of the aviary before Pestel told me what a great place it was to jam with the more-than-human world…
Imperial Ecology
The Ecological Indian
The Great, New Wilderness Debate
The Prometheus Complex
technology and culture Book Reviews 235 in 20th-century slide projectors, movie projectors, and cathode-ray tubes or television screens. Hankins and Silverman include chapters devoted to graphs and automatic recording instruments, the stereoscope and the depiction of three-dimensional photographic images, and the long struggle in the 19th century to build a machine to imitate the human voice. In each of these cases, gadgets inspired by magic or e…
The Prometheus Complex
Sudden music
With the development of increasingly more expressive and interactive electronic instruments, it is easier than ever before to construct works of music out of improvised fragments, editing and piecing them together with the aid of the computer, making the musical work more like a sculpture or painting in sound which can be gradually worked on and refined over time. Such works stand clearly apart from their creator as well as the audience. The gap …
No world but in things
Arne Naess introduced the notion of 'concrete contents' to posit that the qualities we perceive in nature are intrinsic to the things themselves, and not just projections of our senses on to the world. This gives environmentalism more credence than if secondary qualities about the environment are considered subjective in a pejorative sense. But the concrete contents position pushes philosophy toward poetry because it suggests that felt qualities …
Hand's End
Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan
The UN in Somalia
Environmental Philosophy
Dwelling, Place, and Environment
Territorial Behavior Characteristics in Gerbils
This exploratory study was to understand the inborn territorial traits of gerbils. Employing Keeton's ( 1 ) definition, a territory was defined as an area defended by one member of a species against intrusion by other members. Because gerbils continue to exhibit wild behavior in the laboratory, two females, A and B, who were totally unfamiliar with one another and differentiated by a stain of a green food coloring on gerbil A's head, were selecte…
No world but in things
Arne Naess introduced the notion of 'concrete contents' to posit that the qualities we perceive in nature are intrinsic to the things themselves, and not just projections of our senses on to the world. This gives environmentalism more credence than if secondary qualities about the environment are considered subjective in a pejorative sense. But the concrete contents position pushes philosophy toward poetry because it suggests that felt qualities …
Rorschach Variables in Two “Study of Values” Types
Territorial Behavior Characteristics in Gerbils
This exploratory study was to understand the inborn territorial traits of gerbils. Employing Keeton's ( 1 ) definition, a territory was defined as an area defended by one member of a species against intrusion by other members. Because gerbils continue to exhibit wild behavior in the laboratory, two females, A and B, who were totally unfamiliar with one another and differentiated by a stain of a green food coloring on gerbil A's head, were selecte…
Dwelling, Place, and Environment
The UN in Somalia
Environmental Philosophy
Hand's End
Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan
Sudden music
With the development of increasingly more expressive and interactive electronic instruments, it is easier than ever before to construct works of music out of improvised fragments, editing and piecing them together with the aid of the computer, making the musical work more like a sculpture or painting in sound which can be gradually worked on and refined over time. Such works stand clearly apart from their creator as well as the audience. The gap …
No world but in things
Arne Naess introduced the notion of 'concrete contents' to posit that the qualities we perceive in nature are intrinsic to the things themselves, and not just projections of our senses on to the world. This gives environmentalism more credence than if secondary qualities about the environment are considered subjective in a pejorative sense. But the concrete contents position pushes philosophy toward poetry because it suggests that felt qualities …
The Prometheus Complex
technology and culture Book Reviews 235 in 20th-century slide projectors, movie projectors, and cathode-ray tubes or television screens. Hankins and Silverman include chapters devoted to graphs and automatic recording instruments, the stereoscope and the depiction of three-dimensional photographic images, and the long struggle in the 19th century to build a machine to imitate the human voice. In each of these cases, gadgets inspired by magic or e…
The Prometheus Complex
The Ecological Indian
The Great, New Wilderness Debate
You Make My Heart Sing
Last March I went to Pittsburgh to play music live with birds. The plan was to arrive at dawn, to catch the wary singers at their best—in the early morning chorus, when the most sound was happening. I met my friend Michael Pestel at the gates of the National Aviary, a mostly forgotten federal institution in a rundown neighborhood. I had never heard of the aviary before Pestel told me what a great place it was to jam with the more-than-human world…
Imperial Ecology
On Biocultural Diversity
Whale Music
The author played clarinet in accompaniment with a singing male humpback whale off the coast of Maui. A sound spectrogram suggests that the whale may have altered his song in response to the clarinet. This observation is consistent with the fact that humpback whales rapidly change their song during breeding season from week to week. A male humpback whale may be able to quickly match new pitched, musical sounds it has never heard before—a result d…
Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law
The field of transitional justice is entering a new phase born of several decades of experience and a maturation of the practical and theoretical engagement with the complex set of problems involved in facing past atrocities. Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach focuses attention on the issue of guilty pleas in international criminal law as an area of legal practice that merits additional attenti…
Playing into the Machine
Two musicians who have focused on playing acoustic wind instruments into electronics for the purposes of enhancing their original sound reflect on how the use of such new technologies inherently pushes “old technologies” toward a new aesthetics of improvisation
The Book of Music and Nature
This innovative book and virtual, web-based CD, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of music and nature. Lush and evocative, yoking together the simplicities and complexities of the world of natural sound and the music inspired by it, this collection includes essays, illustrations, and plenty of sounds and music. The Book of Music and Nature celebrates our relationship wi…
Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond
It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s…
The Point Is to Change It
Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300–1550 , by Sarah Ann Long
Like most people living through the current Covid-19 pandemic, citizens of European cities in the late Middle Ages experienced ongoing fear of disease and death, the most prominent though far from only cause of which was bubonic plague. As Sarah Ann Long states at the beginning of her excellent study, “The disease first appeared in Western Europe in 1347, recurring every ten to fifteen years until well into the eighteenth century, and had a profo…
You Are with Us in the Wind
Afterword
How have humans made sense of the sounds of nature?Before recording we had to talk and write about them, this is why the nineteenth century had such wonderful words for nature's tones.I. M. Rawes, director of the London Sound Survey, assembled a wonderful book called Honk, Conk, and Squacket: Fabulous and Forgotten Soundwords from a Vanished Age of Listening (London Sound Survey, 2016) that compiled some of these colourful, generally forgotten te…
Bryan Pijanowski. Principles of Soundscape Ecology
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