Avian soloist is the newly arrived from down south Hermit thrush (Caltharus guttatus). He will only sing in old-growth deeply shaded Doug-fir & Ponderosa pine forests.  Composed and recorded along the little montane conifer forest where I fetch water every day.

The Hermit Thrushes song is a paragon of what I call the SYMPLEXITY CYCLE, a complementarity of simple to complex and back. It begins with pure tone unison and ends with a baroque frequency modulated ascending spiral of miraculous complexity.

Another unique musical feature of the Hermit Thrushes music is a near perfect balance between sound & silence. This is mostly like a key reason why they insist on the massive trunks and trees of the now rare dry side mature, i.e.m 400+ year-old trees, Doug-Fire / Ponderosa Pine forest.

IMAGE: Sign just before the Columbia River, WASHINGTON

STROPHE / KATASTROPHE, part one, Fireweed Poems…

Four tracks: (1) BUNKERS ON THE BEACH (2) MONEY (3) CYME (4) I’m too poor in this world…

“RESISTANCE is CREATIVITY & CREATIVITY is RESISTANCE.” Sephane HESSEL (1917-2013) adaped from TIME FOR OUTRAGE…

IMAGE: V2 Rocket, designed by NAZI scientist, Herbert von BRAUN; built in NAZI slave complex, PENEMUNDE, launched from NAZI firing site in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 1945, against LONDON, final days of WWII.

TIMES FOUR: Music & Poetry, side by side “Remembrance Day”

“Man kann sagen, dass der Faschismus der alten Kunst zu lügen gewissermaßen eine neue Variante hinzugefügt hat - die teuflischste Variante, die man sich denken kann - nämlich: das Wahrlügen."

Hannah Arendt

A draft text for a Symposium / Dialogue Circle on Fascism as a species of human behavior from a natural historical perspective, and from the wider circle of consciousness as whole.

There is enough material here for a full year of reading, discussion, debate, and dialogue.

Draft text is at www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/fascism-times-four.pdf

MUSIC: ICE MOUNTAIN, for my friend, David LANDRUM https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/ice-mountain-m4at

IMAGE: (Muted) Snake River above HELLS CANYON DAM, left OREGON / right IDAHO

ESSAY: Der Faschismus aus naturhistorischer Sicht: Eine Analyse des Destruktiven im Denken

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 #Cliff Crego