BLUE MONK variations is both a musical homage to the great pianist and composer, Thelonious MONK, as well as a kind of improvised meditation on the tune. It's just a way of thinking about music. Instead of writing words ABOUT music, which, of course, I'm doing now, we sit down and compose a piece about a piece, as a kind of playful journey into the wilds which might lie ahead.

The pieces was written for my mallet virtuosi friends, Niels Meliefste and Claire Edwards, of DUO VERTIGO

GO TO webscore w/ color dynamics raindbow [purple=ppp >>> red=ff] http://bit.ly/g26GM5
DOWNLOAD performance score pdf http://bit.ly/TIWTvL
DOWNLOAD performance model mp3 http://bit.ly/gWBVeq

BLUE MONK variations, for vibraphone & marimba

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

BLUE MONK variations, for vibraphone & marimba

Cliff Crego