Recorded in snythvoice. Sometimes I prefer a nonhuman voice to read texts of some urgency. I like the greater DISTANCE & OBJECTIVITY it gives to matters of some emotional concern.

PHOTO: A Norway Spruce in North America showing all the symptoms of illness. You will not find a healthy tree in the Alps, where they are the signature species, and native. Victims of a hotter, drier climate & all-pervasive pollution. SEE MORE at http://www.picture-poems.com/photoweek/fiddletop-spruce.html

SEE TEXT at http://picture-poems.com/photoweek/spruce_sonogram_composite.html

WHY I CALL Picea abies FIDDLE-TOP SPRUCE, a stringplayer-ecologist's manifesto

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.

WHY I CALL Picea abies FIDDLE-TOP SPRUCE, a stringplayer-ecologist's manifesto

Cliff Crego