David Rothenberg, musician and philosopher, records on ECM and teaches at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Why Birds Sing, Thousand Mile Song, Survival of the Beautiful, and his latest, Bug Music. He has sixteen CDs out, the latest being Cicada Dream Band and Berlin Bülbul. He also worked on the films SONG OF THE CICADAS and SONG FROM THE FOREST. www.davidrothenberg.net Michael Deal is a noted data visualizer and designer. His clients have included Google, Pinterest, BusinessWeek, and he now serves as design director for Splice. MikeDeal.org