I talk about—phrase by phrase, breath by breath—Book 10 of the DAO DE JING.

IMAGE: Ancient WHITEBARK PINE, in the Strawberry Wilderness, OREGON.

The percussion piece featured in the musical interpolations is from my StarCYCLE DUO project, SYRMA, for two set drummers. On Soundcloud at  https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/clouds-and-clocks-1-m4a

The Coda is from THE PHILOSOPHER’S LYRE, a set of 11 pieces, also on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/the-philosopers-lyre-set

POEMS TO LIVE BY no. 10 “The Analects & Dao De Jing, side by side” [part two]

Ein bilingualer Circle-Song zur Weihnachtszeit. die Stimmen kann man nach belieben neu arrangieren. Noten gibt es auf Anfrage!

Ein neuer Mix von 2021

Circle-Song zur Weihnachtszeit

From Australia, scientist Matthew England explains new Antarctic science that literally changes the whole world.  I talk with 11-year-old Zach Fox-DeVol about his “We the Children” podcast.  From Public Citizen, Erika Thi Patterson reports front-line action to clean up car making - including the surprise worst manufacturer we all thought was so green.

Climate: A Big Change Emerges Down Under

IMAGE: Climate Breakdown basecamp, the WALLOWAS, OREGON

Photo / text of poem is at bit.ly/f5czpb

WATCH…“i’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after RILKE” https://vimeo.com/845195766

I’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after RILKE, a soundpoem

Special thanks to my good friend, Simone de HAAN, Australian new music trombonist extraordinaire…I couldn’t have done this project without his help.

IMAGE: Bertrand RUSSELL, 1957

RUSSELL’S 1970 LAST LETTER, a call for peace in the Middle East

A set of FIVE METAPHYSICAL MINIATURES...soundscape includes a found gong, walking on crusty snow with snowshoes, powerful snowmachines that circle my winter camp, and most especially, a February love duo of two owls, counter-singing in the middle of the night. Recordings...made in the Wallowas, just outside the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Northeast Oregon.

VIEW a set of 100 MINIATURES at: www.picture-poems.com/100

Freedom - Limit - Right Action - Money - Economy: a set of 5 miniatures

PHOTO: YUM CHENMO--"Great Wisdom Mother" at EWAM, Garden of 1000 Buddhas, Jocko Valley, Arlee, Montana

SEE TEXT at: http://picture-poems.com/photoweek/1000-buddhas_9-29-10_8bw.html

RETWEET #buddhism A QUESTION OF #NONVIOLENCE, OR NON-EXISTENCE—a meditation pdf [140k] http://bit.ly/1nkSlvg mp3 [3.7Mb] http://bit.ly/1nkSjDB

A QUESTION OF NON-VIOLENCE, OR NON-EXISTENCE,  a meditation . . .

THIS IS A set of metaphysical MINIATURES from the picture-poems.com 2014/2015 CALENDAR. All b & w photography, pdf [22.9Mb] is at: http://bit.ly/1F9R54K

MUSICAL header & coda is from the STONEPINE SONATA, violin & piano, for the young performer, on Soundcloud at: http://bit.ly/1D7Ni1S score pdf http://bit.ly/1D7NrT9 This is the piece I hope to have played on a fiddle made of whitebark -- or stonepine --wood. [SEE BELOW....]

PHOTO: Old-growth Whitebark pine, or Stonepine, on solid rock, at 2500 m., Eagle Cap #Wilderness, OREGON. I'm working on a photobook project, WHITEBARKS OF THE WALLOWAS. Whitebarks of the polar bears of trees, both the oldest and most important keystone species of the high alpine zone, and also the most endangered of species, threatened on all sides by beetles, and, most especially, a hotter, drier climate. SEE MORE AT: http://picture-poems.com/photoweek/whitebark_on-rock.html



Natural Justice - Freedom & Limit - Dialogue - Religion - Square of False Rationality, 6 MINIATURES

Laura Fermi discusses the family's decision to leave Italy in 1938 in the wake of the government's support for anti-Semitic laws. The program describes Enrico winning the Nobel Prize for Physics. Herb Anderson, Fermi's associate at Columbia University in New York, remembers Fermi's arrival to the city and move to Chicago to work in the Chicago Met Lab. Fermi explains how scientists agreed to keep the Manhattan Project secret. The interviewees also recall working on the Chicago Pile-1. Anderson, George Weil, and others also describe Fermi’s most distinctive qualities: his energy, willingness to collaborate, and informal approach.

For the interview transcript: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/fermi-love-part-2

To Fermi With Love - Part 2

Joseph Rotblat was a British-naturalized Polish physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and founder of the Pugwash Conferences. Rotblat and his friend James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, conducted early research on the atomic bomb in England, and both joined the British Mission at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project. Rotblat left the Manhattan Project on grounds of conscience in late 1944 when it became clear Germany was not close to developing an atomic bomb—the only scientist to leave the project for moral reasons. In this interview, he discusses his personal and professional relationships with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, and the Chadwick family. He also provides insight into the intense security measures in place at Los Alamos, as well as the nature of British involvement at the site. Perhaps most intriguing is Roblat’s discussion of his decision to leave Los Alamos, spurred on by his growing concern that the nuclear weapons being created were also meant for the Soviet Union, and his anxiety over a postwar arms race. In a lighter vein, Rotblat also recalls his work as a technical advisor on the 1980 miniseries “Oppenheimer.”

For the interview transcript: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/joseph-rotblats-interview

Joseph Rotblat's Interview

This is the sound track for: Watch “THINK OF A RIVER, a flowform meditation” on #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/841380035 

MAGE: Rolling Thunder Falls, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Northeast #OREGON

I'VE BEEN MEDITATING a lot recently on Thoreau's little 7-beat aphorism, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." We are, after all, marking the 50th anniversary of APOLLO 8 & the great EARTH RISE photograph. Yes, "When we went to Moon, but discovered the Earth." And yet, reactionary forces everywhere continue their mindless attack on our planet home.

"THINK OF A RIVER (as something powerful)" was first composed in preparation of a 56-day double circumambulation of the WALLOWAS I do every year. This is a vast and rugged wilderness area where I work in the US, about 1/6th the size of Switzerland, running from alpine peaks above 3000 m. all the way to the great Hells Canyon and the Snake River at 600 m., where we can almost smell the Pacific Ocean. I do the outer circle on Mt. bike, and the inner circle--all the way round what I sense as the neutral, motionless "hub of the wheel" of the living mandala of Eagle Caps--running all the many rivers on foot.

The idea is simple: If you want to understand a watershed, walk it. And always running parallel, "If you want to understand, to "strike at the root of evil," observe as an intense form of meditation in Nature your own thought and thinking.

The two streams, that of the river, and that of consciousness, are for me one, inseparable. To understand one is to understand both. A revolution of consciousness IS a revolution in the nature of our relationship to water. And a revolution in our relationship with water IS a revolution of consciousness.

The rhythm of the piece is measured i what I call "flowform time." I prefer not to write this down in western musical notation. If you'd like to perform the piece, feel free to simply learn the movement of the text by heart, and play it by ear, from there.

TEXT, in a slightly different version, is at: bit.ly/1JARAEs Another recording, made a few years back, is on Soundcloud at: Cliff-crego – Think-of-a-river-as-something

THINK OF A RIVER, a flowform meditation...

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

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.

POEMS TO LIVE BY no. 10 “The Analects & Dao De Jing, side by side” [part two]

Cliff Crego

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