CONCLUSIONS fight;
QUESTIONS ask.

This is a rambling (too long) two part overview of 14 Chapter INTRO to the new Talking Hands / Talking Feet FLORILEGIUM: 100 texts, poems, aphorisms & rhythms to learn by heart.

CHAPTERS (1) breathing (2) pattern (3) measure (4) time space (5) listening

(6) metronome (7) tanbura (8) ears-not-eyes (9) feet-not-hands

(10) complementarity (11) homunculus  (12) becoming native to place (13) journal keeping (14) composing

IMAGE: Bighead Clover (Trifolium macrocephalum), unique leaf geometry, CAMAS OVERLOOK, OREGON

TALKING HANDS 2.0:—An overview of the 14 chapters of the new FLORILEGIUM INTRO [part I & II]

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.

TALKING HANDS 2.0:—An overview of the 14 chapters of the new FLORILEGIUM INTRO [part I & II]

Cliff Crego