#phenology ALPINE FLEECEFLOWER (Koenigia phytolaccifolium) Signature Fall color above 1800m #WALLOWAS #OREGON #TalkingHands #yoga #foto #photo
Cliff Crego
@cliffcrego.bsky.social
🎶 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 🌲 Composing off-grid the whole way. 🌕 #Sun2Sound WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS
🎵 TIMES TWELVE, #music & #poetry mp3 www.picture-poems.com/mp3/times-tw... (1) SUNSIGHT! for #BuckyFULLER (2) #RILKE LOVE SONG (3) Unholy Land (4) THE BELL …(6) LOSS OF TRUTH w/ DESERTS / #VARESE … (12) ORACLE 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #foto Dipper, Hurricane Creek where I’m working
🎵 #poetry #classicalmusic I’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after #RILKE LISTEN to mp3 [9Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/im-too-p... “I'm sick of war, of waste, of conflict, of presidents who lie, and governments who slaughter in my name and call it peace.” 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #foto
#classicalmusic 🎵 FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters, by Cliff Crego | Kostenlos online auf SoundCloud anhören soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #freedom #libertad #cello #musicsky
FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters
IMAGE: Hurricane Creek, where the piece was composed…. FREEDOM IS.... Freedom is....my right to defend your right to criticize our own government when it is led astray by the corruption of oil and t
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#foto Right now, where I’m doing #ClimateBREAKDOWN fieldwork….the wild & magnificent HURRICANE CREEK, Northside of the #WALLOWAS, Land of Winding Waters #OREGON “Time,” the Water said to the Rock, “Is but the difference that flows between us. #photo #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️
#foto Granite, on HURRICANE CREEK, Northside #WALLOWAS #OREGON Where I’m camped now For me, the sound of rushing water is the sound of all sounds; it contains all other sounds. Certain is, is that it heals—esp. if you’re #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ our ears & lets us forget the Car Culture noise. #music
#musicsky FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters, by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #freedom #libertad #progressive #reactionary #OREGON #claasicalmusic #cello
FREEDOM IS…. / LA LIBERTAD ES.….composed on Hurricane Creek, the WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters
IMAGE: Hurricane Creek, where the piece was composed…. FREEDOM IS.... Freedom is....my right to defend your right to criticize our own government when it is led astray by the corruption of oil and t
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#foto COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, Climate Breakdown in Whitebark 🌲 Country, book one, the TEACHING TREE & LIVING WATER sequences vimeo.com/860227400 Where I’m at right now; The slideshow I’m doing. 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #poetry #climatecrisis #Klimakrise
COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, book one, the TEACHING TREE & LIVING WATER sequences
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#foto Off-grid 2 weeks of wilderness, finally arrived at LODGE #WALLOWA Lake…. Built in 1923 of Doug-fir & Ponderosa pine 🌲 Beautiful geometry of two perfect squares… #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ #OREGON
#musicsky 🎵 A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION: A fractal vortex soundpoem... by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... #MUSIC? The one things humans do that makes the rest of #NATURE jelous. 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #OREGON #poetry #poesia #gedicht
A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION: A fractal vortex soundpoem...
IMAGE: Old Chief Joseph Gravesite, Wallowa Lake, OREGON A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... See the destructive nature of runaway thought, of the hyper-self-centered Hydro-carbon-man: money has r
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#musicsky HYMN, a love song... LISTEN mp3 [60Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/hymn.wav We live in a very eye-dominant culture So we might suspect Bluesky would be good for #photography but bad for #music & #poetry Why? Because the latter lives in a much slower sound space. #foto Snake River Country
#booksky 📚 The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (2026) by Gil Durán www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7Y... Durán details brilliantly how tech capital, #crypto & #AI are being weaponized, esp. by figures like #PeterThiel, to reshape the global political order. Highly recommended!
"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
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#foto SPARTA #OREGON Intermediate wheatgrass hay 1100m in COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, slideshow #poetry reading I’m doing this summer #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ View pdf [356Mb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/cold-sp... I have 500 slides I can improvise on. Here I do a riff on pines🌲 coming back or Wes Jackson & #KERNZA
#foto DIPPER FALLS 2300m flows into CLIFF RIVER flows into IMNAHA flows into SNAKE flows into COLUMBIA #musicksky 🎵 TIMES NINE: #Music & #Poetry, side by side “Simplexity” by Cliff CREGO LISTEN to mp3 [48’/68Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/times-ni... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #photo #RILKE #water #climate
#classicalmusic TIMES NINE: #Music & #Poetry, side by side “Simplexity” by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... (1) I’m too poor in this world, after RILKE (2) OCTOBER MINIATURE: Four Miniatures (3) NEW MUSIC Reports: Simplexity (4) DESERTS: part four, Edgard Varèse 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #jazzsky
TIMES NINE: Music & Poetry, side by side “Simplexity”
IMAGE: Mountain Snowberry (Symphoricarpus oreophilus) ripening its berries in August sun. Important wildlife food in early Winter, the WALLOWAS, Land of Winding Waters, OREGON Nine tracks…. (1) I’m
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🎵 #poetry I’m too poor in this world, and yet not poor enough…after #RILKE LISTEN to mp3 [9Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/im-too-p... “I'm sick of war, of waste, of conflict, of presidents who lie, and governments who slaughter in my name and call it peace” 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #foto #WAR in the #ALPS
#foto COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, slideshow #poetry reading I’m doing this summer #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ View pdf [356Mb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/cold-sp... My preferred format is the SYMPOSIUM, modeled on Plato’s dialogue of same name = part talking circle = part all nite drinking party #ClimateBREAKDOWN 🌎
#climateBREAKDOWN Asia’s top climate expert warns of ‘humanitarian disasters’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=aomd... #Klimakrise #klimaatcrisis
Asia’s top climate expert warns of ‘humanitarian disasters’
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#gedicht #muziek GURU, een klankgedicht, van Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... “Ze ziet dit, verbaasd, de vastberaden blik van de jonge moeder, een omhulsel van bescherming van ergens…” 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Krishnamurti #ALPS #Amsterdam
GURU, een klankgedicht
IMAGE: Hackberry (Celtis reticulata) by spring, Sagebrush Steppe, WALLOWAS, OREGON GURU Als de deur dichtgaat, klinkt er een gerinkel van belletjes -- het regent, het is koud, de winkel is warm maar
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#musicsky 🎵 BOULEZ, sur Incises (Interpolations) (1998) Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthais Pintscher (2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCQI... MASTERPIECE or remarkable artifact of CULT OF #COMPLICATEDNESS (unnecessary, deliberate, meaningless difficulty)? #RiotAtTheRITE #piano 🎹 #percussion #harp
Pierre Boulez, sur Incises - Ensemble intercontemporain
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#wildlowers MALVA magical geometry (Malva neglecta) A common garden weed, in #ALPS once used as rennet in cheese-making NOTE female styles ending in elongated stigmatic surfaces ready to receive pollen. Male androecium w/ anthers fused in circle. Angle btwn leaves +- #GoldenRatio ~137.5° #flora
#booksky #ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports: Thirsty Skies LISTEN wav [40Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/thirsty-... Full Report pdf [1Mb] The Expanding Atmospheric Sponge: A Systematic Analysis of Vapor Pressure Deficit & the Destabilization of Global Endorheic Basins www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/inland-...
#bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ What horrifies me in not just the radioactive story of URANIUM MINING in #MOAB or all the bikes on RED ROCK; It’s all the cars on narrow roads www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_0... HYDROCARBON MAN: MONEY has replaced MEANING The self-centered ME has replaced WE PLEASURE has replaced ETHICS
Why Nobody Wants to Visit Moab, Utah Anymore
YouTube video by Paul McAllister
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#nativeplants BITTERROOT (Lewisia rediviva) 1100m, signature species of NEast #OREGON Rocky ridges, highly adapted to HOTTER DRIER climate w/ deep tap root, succulent leaves, summer dormancy #wildflowers #foto #photo June aspect #ClimateBREAKDOWN #bikepacking 🚴🏼♂️ #WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters
#musicsky 🎵 PIANO SKETCHES: book II “Sharp curves. Falling rocks. Severe slides” (1) IN OUR AMERICA, on the “Nasty Women get Shit Done” of PORTLAND’s anthem (2) UP after DOWN.... (3) Flight over broken ground a strange loop fractal soundspace mp3 [8Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/piano-sk... #piano
