Name: Louise - written and performed by Charlie Osguthorpe by UpperHurst
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: An original track written and performed by Charlie Osguthorpe. Engineered, recorded and produced by Peter Brooks at UpperHurstStudio

Grave Pastures is a piece for virtually any melodic instrument and fixed electronics. The version here features a synth as the melodic instrument. 

Ask me if you want to play this, and I can provide both a score (in the appropriate transposition/clef) and an audio file without the synth melody.

Please listen with headphones or good speakers, as there is a lot of detail in the electronics part!

Grave Pastures

An original track written and performed by Charlie Osguthorpe. Engineered, recorded and produced by Peter Brooks at UpperHurstStudio

Louise - written and performed by Charlie Osguthorpe

A lone Grey Wolf howls in the late morning, losing itself to the natural reverb of a glacial valley

Grey Wolves were all but extirpated from Washington early in the last century. They've been on a slow but steady recovery now for decades. While still a species of high concern in the Northwest, occasions of hearing their mournful cries are thankfully becoming more and more common.

This is not without controversy, unfortunately, as ranchers fear their livelihoods will be destroyed and hunters express concern over the competition for game animals. My general feeling is this is good, however. The mass numbers of humanity living in former wolf territory and the introduction of highly destructive and invasive farm and game animals such as cattle, pigs, chickens, bullfrogs, pheasant, etc, have had long-lasting, oft-permanent destructive consequences on our ecological systems. That wolves are able to reclaim some territory on their own despite the historical effort to eliminate them is a testimony to their tenacity as a species.

The challenges are great, though, and humanity does not make it easy for other apex predators to survive in a world we claim as our own to despoil at will. Wolves need help all around North America. To help recovery efforts and the benefits they can provide, consider supporting a conservation effort such as The International Wolf Center https://wolf.org or a sanctuary and rehabilitation center such as Wolf Haven International https://wolfhaven.org. For more information on their spread and recovery in Washington, read this informational pamphlet from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife https://bit.ly/2NvfgXW

image credit: "File:Grey Wolf Portrait.jpg" by Jean Beaufort is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en?ref=openverse.

Louise - written and performed by Charlie Osguthorpe

UpperHurst

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