Cliff Crego

#trekking (Lost) GLACIER LAKE at 2500m reflections… unique in the #EagleCapWilderness for its Whitebark pine islands

ALPINE GEOMETRY…

Horizontal lines of water
vertical lines of trees
everything else:— #fractals
in between

#bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ cache at WALLOWA LAKE #OREGON #poetry #velo #fiets #poem

YouTube video by NZZ erklärt Blatten: Wie Bergstürze Artenvielfalt bringen

#Alpen BLATTEN: Wie Bergstürze Artenvielfalt bringen youtu.be/bZQ59jqCxU8?...

In #Derborence stürzten vor 300 Jahren
50 Millionen Kubikmeter Geröll ins Tal.
Heute steht dort ein Urwald – und
Biodiversitäts-Hotspot. Wie geht
es in #Blatten weiter?

#Klimakrise #Climatesky #CH #Schweiz #ALPS

YouTube video by BBC News Deadly wildfire sweeps through southern France causing “unprecedented catraphophe” | BBC News

Dramatic increase of European 🔥 #wildire activity…. youtu.be/c3FvJrnNc_Q?...

#ClimateBREAKDOWN #Klimakrise #klimaat

THE OCTET PROJECT ‘Stone On Stone” Score & parts are at www.cs-music.com/octet

🎵 Stream from THE OCTET PROJECT “Stone On Stone” (c. 10’) vimeo.com/929218701

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #piccolo #oboe #clarinet #bassoon #horn #trumpet #trombone #contrabass #VARESE #RiotAtTheRite

#trekking Looking Southwest over MATTERHORN Martin Bridge limestone at 2800m #EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWA #OREGON

The more in harmony with the natural world
a culture becomes, the fewer and fewer words
will be needed to say ever-more important things

#foto #poetry #aphorism #backpacking

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Lewis & Clark environmental law professor Melissa Powers says #Oregon can create Climate Superfund play.cdnstream1.com/s/opb/think-...

“Driving a dagger straight
into the heart of the
climate change religion.” [sic]
EPA Lee Zeldin

#Climatesky

#SCORE #Debussy JEUX piano 4 hands used by #DIAGHILEV & #NIJINSKY (w/ their comments…) pdf picture-poems.com/pdfs/debussy...

Beautiful!!

Composed in 4 weeks. Ballet performed
8 months later, May 15th. It was then
totally eclipsed 2 weeks later by
#STRAVINSKY RITE OF SPRING

#RiotAtTheRITE

TRINITY, a soundpoem: The Devil asked, Check out “TRINITY, a soundpoem: The Devil asked,

🎵 #music & #poetry TRINITY, a soundpoem: The Devil asked, "Do you want total war?" And their God answered, "Yes." soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

In sound & word, marking the 80th
anniversary of #HIROSHIMA

#anniversary #atomicbomb #nuclear #war #ethics #Hanford

YouTube video by LePhantome 1. It All Comes Back (Opening) - Fun Home OST

#booksky Alison Bechdel's landmark FUNHOME: A Family Tragicomic, the graphic memoir that tells her story of discovering her lesbian sexuality, now brilliant musical.

#Music by Jeanine Tesori
#Poetry by Lisa Kron

BRAVO! m.youtube.com/watch?v=_By5...
#LGBTQ #musicsky #bookbans

#trekking Wild ridge lines, #EagleCapWilderness 2800m, view from ICE MOUNTAIN (aka “The Matterhorn”)

In the mountains
one may go up a climber
but always come down a pilgrim

Official #Wilderness since 1964 #WALLOWAS #OREGON

TIMES TWELVE:—music & poetry, side by side “SUNSIGHT!” (1) SUNSIGHT! for Bucky FULLER (2) RILKE: LOVE SONG / LIEBESLIED (3) UNHOLY LAND “Where not to kill is a sin” (4) THE BELL (title poem excerpt) (5) LOST IN IDAHO:—A pilgrim’s notebook (brief excerpt)

🎵 TIMES TWELVE #music & #poetry side by side “SUNSIGHT!” soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

MUSIC? The one thing humans do
that makes the rest of NATURE jealous

(1) SUNSIGHT! for #BuckyFULLER
(3) UNHOLY LAND #GAZA
… (12) ORACLE, a reader of signs

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #poetry #Gedicht #RILKE #piano #poesia

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto… This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking

YouTube video by Peter Carter Michael Mann on the Greenhouse Gas Report -Trumped-up

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Dr. Mann w/ Amy Goodman gives an excellent overview of what everybody needs to know abt the latest #DumpTRUMP bad climate news youtu.be/dD1wpdxxRi8?...

#booksky Conversations with Stravinsky (1959) by Robert Craft ebook pdf [18Mb] picture-poems.com/pdfs/convers...

Of the eight books the American conductor
Robert Kraft did with or about #STRAVINSKY
this is my favorite

#design #composition #RiotAtTheRite #musicsky

🎶 TIMES SEVEN, #music & #poetry side by side
mp3 picture-poems.com/mp3/times-se...

(1) from TWITTER AS SOUND, 140 characters #aphorism #micropoetry #haku
(2) Blackbird #Dutch
(3) #JohnCage 10 Rules
(4) #RemcoCampert
(5) The Little Clavier
(6) #RILKE
(7) Eltanin #Timpani Duo

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #NL

#trekking Sunsight! reflection on EAGLE CAP, +-2900m neutral motionless center of the great WALLOWA MANDALA

From here, rivers radiate out
in all 4 directions
Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ Hurricane Creek
trailhead. Days run to here in Whitebark
Country >2300m 🌲

#bikepacking #velo #fiets #wilderness #OREGON

i’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after RILKE This is "i’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after RILKE" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

🎵 #poetry#music “I’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after #RILKE” vimeo.com/845195766

“[…] like the sound of rushing water,

like the ecstatic counterpoint of ravens

after all the hunters have gone home,

like a bell ringing out on all its sides from a misty hill”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵

#goBIKES 🚴🏼‍♂️ Out riding the #Cannabis Hwy, a 70k dirt gravel track along the (Muted) Snake River to HUNTINGTON #OREGON.

GOOD subtitle for a book, this sign...
Title: #DEMOCRACY IN NORTH AMERICA

#poetry #poem #trekking #FAHRrad #VELO #bikepacking #bicycle ☮️

Thread bsky.app/profile/clif...

(2) #BACH BWV118 pdf picture-poems.com/pdfs/bach-mo...

How many levels of time do you hear?

NOTE: An LLM like #ChatGPT4 abstracts this score into a single number, it doesn’t “hear” or “move” or “resonate” w/ anything, but makes digitized TECH SCANS. Mistaking mere INTELLECT for INTELLIGENCE

#AI

YouTube video by Netherlands Bach Society Bach - Motet O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118 | Netherlands Bach Society

(1) ♫ #BACH MOTET BMV118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht / O Jesus Christ, light of my life m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8U...

In times of crisis, we can go for
the safety of the WORST, or we can
be inspired to reach for the BEST

A magnificent performance from #AMSTERDAM #musicsky #RiotAtTheRite

#design Round-leaf Trillium form. How many levels of nested order do you see? I count about 5. #BACH never went beyond 6! Amazingly beautiful... . . .

FORM emerges out of movement;
It's the outward envelope of the rhythmic
pulse of change.

#music #biomimicry #RiotAtTheRight #nativeplants

3-fold REVOLUTION: a necessary unity... For my friends, Chad & Christina, w/ blessings & gratitude, for a wonderful day good food & dialogue -- VIII.4.2017 -- on HURRICANE CREEK, north entrance of the Eagle Cap Wilderness. I mark the spot a

🎵 #music #poetry 3-FOLD REVOLUTION, a set of 14 new pieces... soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky

YouTube video by SmithsonianFolkwaysRecordings Lead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"

🎵 “STAY #WOKE Keep your eyes opem!” From Lead Belly's song "Scottsboro Boys" the origin of the word m.youtube.com/watch?v=VrXf...

Ah, knowing—resonating—with your roots!
One of the best purifications for the #DumpTRUMP
pandemic of language corruption

#musicsky #jazzsky #poetry

WEST WIND AT POP CREEK PASS, a high-country prose-poem…… IMAGE; Eagle Cap Wilderness, the WALLOWAS, OREGON. Both the music & prose poem were composed here… TEXT and PHOTOS are here http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/photoweek_9-08_3-09.pdf The AVIAN solois

🎵 #poetry #music WEST WIND AT POP CREEK PASS a high-country prosepoem soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

“…the flashing white outline of a Nutcracker's
wings catches the last light of day as it shoots
straight up, sheering the strong winds like surf”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking #backpacking #philosophy

Thx Ina, that’s very kind of you. 🙏 Photo is a Whitebark pine (+-400 yrs old) on solid Wallowa Batholith granite (+-5,000,000 yrs old). In the Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON. Where I’m camped right now doing fieldwork. All the best. Ciao for now, Cliff 🌲

#philosophy SIMPLICITY/COMPLEXITY CYCLE

Where the climax of #COMPLEXITY comes
we can never know for sure,
but natural movement always begins
and ends with #SIMPLICITY

Draw a circle which is not
surrounded by emptiness

Speak a word which does not
emerge from and returns to
nothing at all

#AI🌲

#philosophy SIMPLICITY/COMPLEXITY CYCLE

Where the climax of #COMPLEXITY comes
we can never know for sure,
but natural movement always begins
and ends with #SIMPLICITY

Draw a circle which is not
surrounded by emptiness

Speak a word which does not
emerge from and returns to
nothing at all

#AI🌲

#money from EPIGRAM, for winds & percussion, The MONEY movement.

BASED on a simple 40-step (syllable) #aphorism
Sung by 8-part military-style choir marching on snow!
Honoring #STRAVINSKY & #FrankZAPPA

LISTEN mp3 [30Mb] picture-poems.com/mp3/epigram_...

#Geld #moneta 🎵 #Sun2Sound 😎 #Musicsky

#FOTO 💧 QUARTET from the great (Muted) Snake River & Hells Canyon country. Present border #OREGON / #IDAHO

DAMS & ILLUSION?

The urge to control begins w/ the illusion
of separateness and independence;
It always ends with contradiction and collapse

#ecology #consciousness #SalmonRiver #Imnaha