CHAPTER Two….The story of SCHLIEREN, or how a piece of music can help build an orchestra.

CHAPTER One…https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/connection-street-against-gaudeamus-or-why-composers-competitions-are-worse-than-useless

This poem somehow holds the whole of what I would like to share with CONNECTION SYREET: AMSTERDAM BY NIGHT, a transcendentalist vision, featuring the ASKO Ensemble… https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/amsterdam-by-night-a-long-line

IMAGE: The area around THE CONNECTION STREET in AMSTERDAM.

CONNECTION STREET: Music, Politics & Anarchy in the Amsterdam of the 1970s

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.

New tracks tagged #Asko Ensemble