Four Fifths of the World Cannot Be Wrong:
Tabla-tune and the Rhythms of the World.
David Rothenberg, Kabir Mitra, and Matthew Aidekman present a way to connect the musics of East and West with an electronic method to retune and remix the tones of the Indian two-part drum known as the tabla.
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 making music with whales.
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