Abstraction

THREE of FIVE parts….sound interpolations, Integrales (1928) Edgar Varėse, recorded live in UTRECHT, the Netherlands, ASKO Ensemble, Cliff Crego conducting.

IMAGE: Cover photo STONE ON STONE project, Native American rock art, along the convergence of the CROOKED, METOLIUS & DESCHUTES Rivers, OREGON.

THE OCTET PROJECT “Stone On Stone” 
https://vimeo.com/929218701

The QUALITATIVE GROUND is an order which emerges FROM WITHIN the players of the ensemble. Normally, in Western music, we make the profound mistake of imposing order FROM WITHOUT (ie. the conductor)

THE OCTET PROJECT “Stone On Stone” 

web score http://cs-music.com/octet/octet_stone-on-stone_1.html

performance score http://cs-music.com/octet/octet_stone-on-stone.pdf

set of parts http://cs-music.com/octet/octet_stone-on-stone_parts.pdf

Other OCTET Project pieces: STRAVINSKY Piano-rag arr. https://vimeo.com/931172163

CHAMBER CONCERTO Violin https://vimeo.com/926918436

Viva Varēse! Celebrating 100 years OCTANDRE. The piece that built the ASKO | SCHOENBERG ensemble; It’s also the inspiration and point of departure of my OCTET Project at http://cs-music.com/octet

Score ebook: http://picture-poems.com/pdfs/varese_octandre.pdf

INTRO: OCTET Project “Stone On Stone” parts I, II, & III

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 #Edgar Varèse