Pond Concert with David Rothenberg and Lindsey Horner
About this Event
Back by popular demand, a summer pond concert for 2026
Sunday, August 2nd, 3pm
John Allen Pond, Fahnestock State Park
Cold Spring, NY
$20 per person payable on Eventbrite, event to be created
David Rothenberg and Lindsey Horner presents a special concert live with underwater singing creatures and plants at John Allen Pond in Fahnestock Park, Sunday Aug. 2nd, 3pm.
We meet at the parking lot at the corner of Dennytown Road and Sunken Mine Road, because parking is limited at the pond, we’ll take just two or three cars down maximum. Or you can walk the twenty minutes down.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SNmJbftc9155aUcj6
He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Suzanne Vega, and Joe Lovano. Nightingales in Berlin is his latest film, and is his latest book. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at NJIT.
Bassist is one of the more versatile musicians in jazz and modern music. He has most often been heard with musicians on the cutting edge recording and performing with artists such as Greg Osby, Bill Frisell, Bobby Previte, Dave Douglas, Don Byron and Muhal Richard Abrams, to name but a few. He is currently in his fifteenth year with the band of Irish American fiddle player Eileen Ivers, whose exciting style is at the forefront of the rethinking of Irish traditional music as it also combines elements from African, Latin, and other World and Americana sources.
In his book Secret Sounds of Ponds, environmental musician and philosopher David Rothenberg tosses a microphone into a pond and we read (and hear) about an entirely new realm: the unexpected and stirring rhythms of some of the smallest and loudest creatures on Earth. Recording the songs of the animals and plants inhabiting each pond reveals a different perspective than what we meet in our human society. Each pond episode brings the reader closer to a new understanding of the non-human world that we share.
Rothenberg has previously investigated, recorded, and collaborated with the music of birds and whales. Now he writes, "Having heard the pond, I want to join the pond, making music no one species could make alone." His energizing and technological research combines with a musician's and poet's creative aptitude as he discovers the orchestration of ecosystems, uncovering new connections lurking beneath the silent surface. Secret Sounds of Ponds is replete with full-color photographs and musical works presented both as colorful spectrograms and as QR codes that link to all the music that is placed online. Some are musical, some are rhythmic, some Rothenberg accompanies on his clarinet.
The book is full of QR codes that point to the pond sounds and the music which are here: https://soundcloud.com/user-828525518/sets/the-secret-sounds-of-ponds
and is out as an album on all major music services: https://davidrothenberg.hearnow.com/secret-songs-of-ponds
"It's now obviously urgent that we find a way back into balance with nature that observes, respects and integrates us into what we have left of the natural world. It's great to see and listen to David Rothenberg's work, harnessing science and music to point out the path of potential dialogue with the natural world and all the wonderful creatures within it."
—Peter Gabriel
Where is it happening?
USD 23.18
