TWO PATHS—

One returns
the other does not
and I still don’t know
which one leads home

TEXT is from my THE LITTLE CLAVIER, free ebook (633 pages) at http://picture-poems.com/tlc/the-little-clavier.pdf

Avian soloists, recorded from April through July around 1400m in dry-side Northeast OREGON montane mixed conifer forest (Doug-fir, Grand fir, Larch, Ponderosa pine create the acoustics), are: Hermit Thrush, Mountain Bluebird, American Robin, and Swainson’s Thrush.

What I sense as the spiritual/philosophical poverty of present western musical culture—whether the toxic commercial sounds normalized by predatory capitalism and social media, or the faux-African minimalist music of the percussion ensemble in the concert hall, or the last vestiges of post World War II European mindless, vainglorious complicatedness of the runaway  intellectualism of Schönberg, Stockhausen or Ferneyhough—is caused, at least in part, by our near total fragmentation from Nature. Not just nature as wilderness, but also nature as sound.

This is a little prose-poem meditation, on a new way of hearing, sensing, and perhaps composing many-voiced or polyphonic music.  We are not going to discover it in New York City, or Berlin, I think, but rather as we leave the isolation of our studios and enter the marvelous unknown of the pathless land. 

IMAGE: KRAG PEAK RIDGE, with Whitebark pines, at 2600m, South Wallowas, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON.

TWO PATHS, a little 17-step poem in a polyphonic avian sounscape…

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.

https://bergerrond2.bandcamp.com/

La musique (fragments, vent et virtuel), la littérature vocale et les vidéos du Berger Rond (2003...) se forment de courts extraits remplis de sens et qui exigent toute l’attention peu habituée au brouhaha.

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Page vocale, 
https://soundcloud.com/vincentbergeron
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1999-2003-First Fragments
2009-Instruit mental
2016-Plages d`Intrus Mental
2019-En dehors de tout
2022-Cet oc​é​an effrayant et furieux 

01-2004-Casse-tête de l'Existence
02-2005-L'Art du Désarroi
03-2007-Philosophie Fantasmagorique
04-2008-Le SAVANT devait arriver avant SONGEUR!
05-2009-Audiomachie - Logomachie
06-2009-Imperméable aux prévisions
07-2010-Étrange En Compagnie
08-2011-[{ }]
09-2011-Un doux rêveur dans. Homme Sauvage dit
10-2012;18-Elle Avait Raison Hathor
11-2012-En Dehors de Tout
12-2013-Il y a seulement des apparitions
13-2013-Game Overtime
14-2014-Même quand ils se fâchaient, on tendait l`oreille pour entendre
15-2015-Village De La Métaphore
16-2015-La Rumeur De La Circulation
17-2015-Virtuel Inconnu
18-2016-I Could Not Figure Out This One Yet
19-2016-La répétition du même acte
20-2017-Simulacre Occidental
21-2017-Du pain d`épices à la marche raide
22-2017-Schizosphère
23-2018-InQUIETudes
24-2018-For that, you have to live more...
25-2019-Des voix au hautbois
26-2019-Oh Boy !
27-2019-Eau du Bois
28-2020-Plénitude de la Solitude
29-2020-Un ancêtre retiré du chemin de la sévérité trouvée en lui
30-2021-Fil de la Pensée - Train of Thought
31-2021-But Ruminates on Necromantic Skill
32-2021-Laissez​-​moi Rêver en Paix !
33-2022-La Victime d`un Cou monté !
34-2022-De Tortueux sentiers montrent nos instants défaits
35-2023-Nous sommes composés d`infinis pluriels et d`obstination 
36-2023-Nous sommes composés

"I'm a mellow artist, ageing 69. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases:

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-dreams
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte 
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli ‘amateurs’, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

TWO PATHS, a little 17-step poem in a polyphonic avian sounscape…

Cliff Crego