"Inviting the wider circle of NATURE into the smaller circle of DIALOGUE"...A stream-side dialogue tape. 

Recorded during mountain May snowmelt, I unpack an aphorism I like to use with my New Music Performance students -- including myself among them, in the spirit of "The teacher is the taught." The little 37-step saying is by F.M. Alexander, founder of the ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE. It goes like this:

"You are not here to learn exercises, or to learn to do something right, but to get able to meet a stimulus that always puts ou wrong, and to learn to deal with it." F.M. Alexander

IMAGE: Spring snowmelt on Summit Creek, close to where this dialogue tape was recorded....

THOUGHT & THE STIMULI OF MECHANICAL REACTION, a dialogue tape

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.

THOUGHT & THE STIMULI OF MECHANICAL REACTION, a dialogue tape

Cliff Crego