
Soundwalker
A series of talks on music, nature, sound, and the world around us hosted by musician and writer David Rothenberg
Podcasting since 2018 • 28 episodes
Soundwalker
Latest Episodes
Marilyn Crispell: To Be In the Moment
An hour and a half with the great improvising pianist Marilyn Crispell, winner of a 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Award. We learn how and when she began improvising, and how she has learned to combine energy and calm over the course of a long and ever-...
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Episode 28
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1:34:21

W.A. Mathieu: How Much Does a Musician Need to Know?
A conversation with 86-year old musical master Allaudin Mathieu, who started out arranging for Duke Ellington and went on to become a great mentor and spiritual force, today making some of the best work of his career and continue to teach nonst...
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Episode 27
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1:34:21

What Club Will Have Me? David Rothenberg Interviewed by Victoria Vesna
Finally I dare to make myself the subject of an interview in my own podcast. The art/science pioneer Victoria Vesna grilled me on how I got where I am today: What I learned from John Cage, R. Murray Schafer, and all those birds, bugs, and whale...
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Episode 26
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1:06:58

David James Duncan: The East in the West, the West in the East
David James Duncan worked on his masterwork novel SUN HOUSE for nearly two decades, and it has now arrived. I met him last in the early days of the project, and now sixteen years later we sit down to talk about why the best things often take ti...
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Episode 25
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1:05:42
