From This World, Another

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.