NIGHTINGALES IN BERLIN featuring David Rothenberg, Cymin Samawatie, Lembe Lokk, Korhan Erel, Benedicte Maurseth, Wassim Mukdad, Sanna Salmenkallio, Dietmar Todt, Tina Roeske, and others.
This films tells the extraordinary story of professor David Rothenberg’s efforts to cross the species line and make music live with nightingales. He gathers together an international band of musicians and heads off to the night of Berlin. Because of its spacious parks and the large number of ethusiastically singing birds, Berlin is the best city to make music with nightingales.
Nightingales in Berlin shows musicians who encounter nightingale song for the first time, with no preconceptions. The play of pure tones jarring against click and buzz becomes not a code but a groove, an amphitheater of rhythms.
The film includes musicians and scientists decoding the practical meaning that may lie inside the patterns and sequences sung by nightingales. In these midnight encounters in the parks of Berlin, nightingale song ties together cultures and traditions.
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