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From This World, Another
From This World, Another
Book-length, extended liner notes for an album of new music.
From This World, Another marks the first release for Terra Nova Editions, a new series of books not available from our usual distribution channels. This book is published along with a new album of music, recorded remotely during the pandemic, by David Rothenberg and Stephen Nachmanovitch, two veteran improvisors who also have written books on improvisation and the creative process. What started out as liner notes just got longer and longer…
Stephen and David share an affinity for improvising music, thinking about improvisation, and the songs of birds. Quarantined this past year like the rest of us, they decided to make an album together online. The two of us, writers and well as players, decided to talk our way through the music, and the ideas behind the music, and speak a book together. This is the result.
You may order the book from our website here, or from Bandcamp, or on Amazon. The first two versions come bundled with a digital download of the music that is discussed within.
Published May 7, 2021
104 pp paperback, illustrated.
ISBN 978-1-949597-24-0
Stephen Nachmanovitch is the author The Art of Is and Free Play. Born in 1950, he graduated in 1971 from Harvard and in 1975 from the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. He has collaborated with other artists in music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed software melding art, music, literature, and computer technology.
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Sudden Music, Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful, and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. Born in 1962, he has more than thirty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Le My Silent House which came out on ECM, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and They Say Humans Exist. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion.