Playing Music with Mosquitoes

David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them — crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

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