X-Country STRING QUARTET Project: pieces for a quartet biking the world, for MUSIC & PLANET

THESE LITTLE MINIATURES, or "sayings in prose," are each meant to be small windows on a new way of looking. What has to thnk a bit, it's true, but I believe it might be a good idea to have little background philosophical reflection interpolations like these nested between Poetry, Dance & Music performances. It's a way of reinventing perhaps, what I experience as the outmoded art form of "THE CONCERT,' itself. It might be a way of filling the performance space, as it were, with a new kind of energy, new ideas, a new kind of shared meaning. What could be more beautiful than that?

[PHOTO: Last light, December, snowy Snake River country, Oregon, where these MINIATURES were written]


THREE METAPHYSICAL MINIATURES, "An extinction of a different kind"

One approach to the rhythmic complexity of the piece is, of course, to simplify. Practice first as a purely percussion piece, without the instruments, singing / drumming the movements without pitch and dynamics. If you can generalize this technique of gradually progressing from simple to complex, a lot more can be learned than just the little study. 

"STUDY IN PIZZICATO" is a part of my "X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET project." 

STUDY IN PIZZICATO performance materials:
webscore http://bit.ly/yqXZkC 
score pdf http://bit.ly/z4rm8O
performance model mp3 http://bit.ly/xTEEkR
parts pdf http://www.cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-pizzicato_parts.pdf

part of X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, "Study in Pizzicato,"

PHOTO: 'METH HOUSE,' Northeast MONTANA, somewhere lost, biking, along Highway 2...SEE MORE at: http://bit.ly/1S2iNWG

MUSIC featured is from my THE MAGIC BOX project, for mallet instruments...."dance of the blue castanets" ...
SEE webscore at: http://bit.ly/1PeKz3h
DOWNLOAD score pdf at: http://bit.ly/23cJQUy
  


7 MINIATURES: House of Culture - For the Young - Wilderness - Creationist? - Face of Empire

"Study in 2" is part of my "X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET project."

VIEW iPad webscore at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-two_1.html

DOWNLOAD score pdf at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-two.pdf

DOWNLOAD parts at: http://cs-music.com/quartets/study-in-2_parts.pdf


part of X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, "Study in 2"

4 minute intro to the project. 4 minute variation on the JOPLIN classic.

SCORE http://cs-music.com/quartets/mov_strings.pdf
PARTS http://cs-music.com/quartets/mov_strings-parts.pdf

IMAGE: On the toad, biking across MONTANA…

X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET Project “Move Over”

IMAGE: The freedom of the open road, my home/office/basecamp, along Hwy 2, MONTANA....

FOR MORE ON the X-Country STRING QUARTET Project, go to: https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/sets/x-country-string-quartet


The X-Country STRING QUARTET, biking round the world, for both Music & Planet

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.

X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET Project “Move Over”

Cliff Crego