LET’S GO CAMPING! a musical prosepoem, w/ Simone de HAAN, solo trombone

IMAGE: pickup trailer, waiting, ready to go...Hwy. 2 Northern MONTANA... This is a little happy prose poem from the first part of my THE LITTLE CLAVIER. This is thoroughly improvised summer music. I myself am on the road at present, doing wilderness photography work, studying climate crisis at altitude, and frequently camping in different locations each night. So I enjoy composing music that for me seems to freely resonate with this spirit of the open road. My theme is, of course, living. Or the different strategies of living one sees and experiences in the slow steady movement of a mountain bike loaded with gear moving down a Montana or Oregon highway. There is plenty of time to think. There is plenty of time to make photographs. Plenty of time to meet and talk to people. And to hear orchestral music in one’s head. And eventually in the evening write it down. Special thanks to my Australian new music mate, trombonist, Simone de HAAN, for giving voice to some of these feelings and images.