{"id":3861,"date":"2013-06-04T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T03:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:17:05","slug":"david-rothenberg-john-cooley-and-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/david-rothenberg-john-cooley-and-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"David Rothenberg, John Cooley and the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn’t often that cicada celebrities show up on your Mother’s lawn, but when you have a healthy supply of easily catchable singing M. septendecim, and a cicada website, these things happen. <\/p>\n

Last Saturday I met up with cicada researcher John Cooley<\/a>, Japanese cicada researcher Jim Yoshimura, and musician and professor David Rothenberg<\/a> at Roosevelt Park in Edison NJ. They were looking for male cicadas to perform with David at a World Science Festival event in the Bronx later that night. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was also there to interview David and John, and artist Asher Jay<\/a> was there to lend David support. <\/p>\n

The cicadas in the park weren’t performing well enough, so I directed them to my Mom’s place in Metuchen. <\/p>\n

The Metuchen location yielded many screaming cicadas. David collaborated with the cicadas on the spot with his Ani-Moog iPad app, and a clarinet. John Cooley dropped some cicada science for Stephen Farrell’s video camera as well. My Mom served refreshments. Once enough cicadas were collected, the cicada celebrities departed — before leaving David left my Mom an autographed book and CD. Very cool!<\/p>\n

\"John
A beautiful day for enjoying the song of cicadas in the suburbs of New Jersey.<\/small><\/p>\n

More from David Rothenberg:<\/p>\n

David Rothenberg plays Animoog on iPad live with cicadas:<\/p>\n