OBJECTIVE NARRATIVE POEMS are "tre secco, sotto voce" descriptions, mostly of visionary scenes. Here, we imagine the singular moment when the power of mechanical intellect embodied in robotic performances surpasses that of the human performer. How one sees this depends very much on one's view of Intelligence and the nature of the Universe. The more mechanical your view, I would guess, the greater your fear of the world being taken over by computers. Personally, I fear much more how mechanical we have already become in our present admittedly hi-tech, but, in my view, spiritually bankrupt classical music world of string quartets and such. 

The text STRING QUARTET, a vision, is at: http://picture-poems.com/photoweek/quartet.html

STRING QUARTET, a vision [an objective narrative poem]

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.

STRING QUARTET, a vision [an objective narrative poem]

Cliff Crego