About this Event
Reed Circuit Sunset North
Friday Apr. 24th, 6:45pm
Secret location ten minutes walk from
Cold Spring Metro-North station northbound platform,
Meet there 6:45pm
Mason Youngblood, electronics
David Rothenberg, winds
Merlyn Kotljar, remotely-supplied Blyth’s reed warbler sounds
Rinde Eckert, percussion
we sing the sun down with a mixture of the acoustic and the electronic!
Rinde Eckert is a singer’s singer, an artist whose voice once made Sting cry and who has collaborated with such performers as ace jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and the pioneering Kronos Quartet. With his resonant middle register that sounds like John Cale on his best day and a falsetto that evokes the lead in a band of angels. Eckert has also excelled as a writer, composer, actor and singer, creating a series of award-winning interdisciplinary theatrical works including And God Created Great Whales (an Obie winner in 2000) and Orpheus X (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007). His latest albums are The Natural World, 2018 and Should Sound Loose, 2025, with David Rothenberg, Art Labriola, and Jay Nicholas.
For nearly a decade, Merlyn Kotljar has been documenting the songs of the Blyth's reed warbler, a species whose intricate vocalizations rival those of any celebrated songbird. https://www.youtube.com/@FlackoWeasel/videos
Mason Youngblood studies animal communication and cultural evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University. His research investigates questions such as: What are the parallels between human language and animal communication systems like bird and whale song? How do cultural norms and community structures shape changes in contemporary music? As a DJ he performs under the name Callosum. He is a member of the New Inc cultural incubator program at the New Museum.
and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including which came out on ECM, and more recently and . 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. In 2024 he won a Grammy Award as part of , in the category of Best Boxed Set. and are his latest books. and are his latest films. His piece premiered at the Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin in 2025. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cold Spring, NY, USA, United States
USD 23.18
