David Rothenberg 5/1/13 Peabody Museum

As part of the celebration of the 17yr cicada emergence, sound artist and author Rothenberg sets up in the hall of dinosaurs to play looped whalesongs and cicada drones while playing clarinet or bass clarinet. Not sure if an entomusicologist is a real vocation, but this guy is it. Spoke of the origin of these natural sounds. The whalesong, sung exclusively by males, is just assumed to be an attempt to attract females. Rothenberg points out that there is no evidence showing that whale females have any interest in these songs. I purchased a whale re-mix disc where Rothenberg sent whalesongs to world renowned sound artists (dj spooky, scanner, warren burt, stephen chopek and others) to re-mix. With penpals like that, well you know.