Fast Violins Wetlands & Delta Lao American

X-Country STRING QUARTET Project: pieces for a quartet biking the world, for MUSIC & PLANET

Bach: Air on the G String

THESE LITTLE MINIATURES, or "sayings in prose," are each meant to be small windows on a new way of looking. What has to thnk a bit, it's true, but I believe it might be a good idea to have little background philosophical reflection interpolations like these nested between Poetry, Dance & Music performances. It's a way of reinventing perhaps, what I experience as the outmoded art form of "THE CONCERT,' itself. It might be a way of filling the performance space, as it were, with a new kind of energy, new ideas, a new kind of shared meaning. What could be more beautiful than that?

[PHOTO: Last light, December, snowy Snake River country, Oregon, where these MINIATURES were written]


THREE METAPHYSICAL MINIATURES, "An extinction of a different kind"

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Thaïs: Meditation

One approach to the rhythmic complexity of the piece is, of course, to simplify. Practice first as a purely percussion piece, without the instruments, singing / drumming the movements without pitch and dynamics. If you can generalize this technique of gradually progressing from simple to complex, a lot more can be learned than just the little study. 

"STUDY IN PIZZICATO" is a part of my "X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET project." 

STUDY IN PIZZICATO performance materials:
webscore http://bit.ly/yqXZkC 
score pdf http://bit.ly/z4rm8O
performance model mp3 http://bit.ly/xTEEkR
parts pdf http://www.cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-pizzicato_parts.pdf

part of X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, "Study in Pizzicato,"

PHOTO: 'METH HOUSE,' Northeast MONTANA, somewhere lost, biking, along Highway 2...SEE MORE at: http://bit.ly/1S2iNWG

MUSIC featured is from my THE MAGIC BOX project, for mallet instruments...."dance of the blue castanets" ...
SEE webscore at: http://bit.ly/1PeKz3h
DOWNLOAD score pdf at: http://bit.ly/23cJQUy
  


7 MINIATURES: House of Culture - For the Young - Wilderness - Creationist? - Face of Empire

"Study in 2" is part of my "X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET project."

VIEW iPad webscore at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-two_1.html

DOWNLOAD score pdf at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-two.pdf

DOWNLOAD parts at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-2_parts.pdf


part of X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, "Study in 2"

BRECCIA I, for #violin & #cello score http://bit.ly/1MS090N pdf http://bit.ly/1EQU3YZ mp3 http://bit.ly/1MS0n8d

The X-country STRING QUARTET project [soundcloud http://bit.ly/1Dqp9XP] is an initiative/idea of mine, to form a string quartet that bikes cross country, giving concerts, lectures,  demonstrations of a wide repertoire of new music in small rural communities about every 40 of 50 k during the spring and summer months. In my view, the way to do this is simply TO DO IT! Even if you've never biked, if you're just a cellist alone, you just set out on the open road following the power & necessity of an idea, and everything else you need -- food, shelter, people -- will present themselves, along the way. 

BRECCIA III is also on soundcloud at: http://bit.ly/1EQUFOi

IN THE SPIRIT of free & open source, BRECCIA can also easily be turned into a string quartet. In fact, I think it would be great to play BOTH, back to back, first as DUO, then w/o missing a beat, as a quartet. How one orchestrates the voices is then up to the performers, as rightly it should be.






BRECCIA I, for violin & cello, for the young performer, part the X-country STRING QUARTET project

IMAGE: The freedom of the open road, my home/office/basecamp, along Hwy 2, MONTANA....

FOR MORE ON the X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, go to: https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/sets/x-country-string-quartet


The X-Country STRING QUARTET, biking round the world, for both Music & Planet

莫扎特婴儿音乐

Violin Sonata in G Major, K.301/293a: I. Allegro con spirito

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The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni), Op. 8, Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto (Arr. for 2 Violins and Piano)

Beautiful, romantic music and relaxing music featuring piano music, violin music, guitar music and cello music composed by Peder B. Helland. This track is called "I Miss You".

Stream or download my music: soothingrelaxation.lnk.to/listenSL
This is the audio from my YouTube video found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoOaI4wbxCI
Our website: soothingrelaxation.com/

Stream or download

Beautiful Romantic Music: Relaxing Music, Guitar Music, Violin Music, Cello Music, Piano Music ★103

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 X

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.

BRECCIA I, for violin & cello, for the young performer, part the X-country STRING QUARTET project

Cliff Crego