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Cliff Crego — 269 episodes
TALKING HANDS: The five time-spaces & learning the 4th Amendmen by heart
NEW MUSIC Reports: Towards a new lexicon “Simplexity”
FIELDNOTES Report: Riparian Duo, Aspen & Cottonwood
SIX METAPHYSICAL MINIATURES: “The Spring”
LOST IN IDAHO: Sequence X “Memories…” (Seventeen 17-step poems)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: The Commons
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: A nasty quintet of invasive grasses & collective commons, ALPS
PIANO SKETCHES: Sharp curves. Falling rocks. Severe slides: I — VIII
RILKE: Buddha in glory / Buddha in der Glorie….English / German (poem)
NEW MUSIC Reports: The BOULEZ Legacy & Beyond…
BUDDHA IN GLORY:—A soundpoem on the RILKE masterpiece , PARIS 1908
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Micro-plastics raining down on wilderness peaks
The TECH REACTIONARY Map: When Religion becomes something we fight about
The Spirit of Science in an Age of Denial
TALKING HANDS: Most commercial music fits this 7 TEMPO OCTAVE template. Why?
DIALOGUE TAPE: 29 steps to freedom…either nonviolence or nonexistence…
TALKING HANDS: Overtones, timbre, temperament & Varèse “The Liberation of Sound”
TAKING HANDS: Varèse & the Five Time-spaces “The Liberation of sound”
NEW MUSIC Reports: Edgard Varèse & the Radical Transformation of American Music (1915–1927)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Report: Tipping points in the Intermountain West, Tehran, & Calabria ITALY
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET vocal yoga practice….Rhythmic patterns of the Lo Shu magic square
NEW MUSIC Reports: The Luciano BERIO & Cathy BERBERIAN vocal revolution (1959-1969)
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Why morning dew is vanishing, ALPS & WALLOWAS Northeast OREGON
NEW MUSIC Reports: Mirrors made of sound & the loss of sympathetic resonance
StarCYCLE DUO Ara, for vibraphone & marimba…WOBBLE, the 1/4-tone movement
ON LOVE & LEARNING: A set of 18 metaphysical miniatures…
EARTHRISE 🌎The ethical challenge of one of the greatest images of all time
RESURRECTION OF THE TREE OF LIFE: A soundpoem, for Owenuma BLUE SKY...
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Puncturevine, A Tire-popping Terrorist 🚴🏼♂️ or Healer of Men? 🙏
“What would you do?” the Earth 🌎asks…a Grief Circle soundpoem…
NEW MUSIC Reports: Fighting for Progressive Music in Reactionary Times…AMSTERDAM
ROUGH ROAD AHEAD? A Neon Graffiti soundpoem…
THE ROOM OF MIND: Nine high-country poems in a surreal soundscape…
FOUR LAKES / ONE SKY: A double-quartet of voices, 4 dying inland seas / 4 patriarchs of war….
WALKING THE WORLD: Stone Pine Mountain / Recorriendo el mundo: Montaña del Pino Pétreo, a prose poem
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Thirsty Skies & the Drying Up of Inland Seas…
ANTIPHON for GENOCIDE in GAZA & the SPIRIT THRUSH, music & poetry, side by side…
Have you ever noticed? / ¿Te has dado cuenta? In praise of talking hands…
EVERY TIME A BOMB FALLS / CADA VEZ QUE CAE UNA BOMBA….A symphonic soundpoem
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? A New Year’s Spring Equinox soundpoem…
ON TYRANNY: A critical appreciation of Timothy Snyder’s work (from POEMS TO LIVE BY)
FIELDNOTES III.18.2026 I report on a few of the phenological effects of current HEAT DOME
SIMPLE DESIRES / DESEOS SIMPLES, a soundpoem…
TIMES 13: Music & Poetry, side by side “”What would you do?” the Earth asks….”
NIGHT WATCH, A high country soundpoem…
WALKING THE WORLD: Above Timberline…a prose poem….
TWO PATHS:—Endless War v. Nonviolence…a soundpoem…
ANAKTOS:—8 players / 16 timpani / 1 circle / 0 conductors
CÍRCULOS dentro de CÍRCULOS: Música, ética y religión en un paisaje sonoro de contrabajo…
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Report: Cloud Seeding & Making Snow in IDAHO
CIRCLES within CIRCLES: Music, ethics & religion in a contrabass soundscape…
Alpine Ecosystem Destabilization and Cryospheric Transformation in the Bormio Corridor (1200–3000 m)
TALKING HANDS: “See the Children” I introduce the 5 TIMESPACES of a little poem
Percussion Etude no. VIII: Drum Circle in Eight Voices (any instruments….)
HERE / AQUI, five poems in an English & Spanish soundscape
Bormio OLYMPICS 2026: Racing blind into a future of lost glaciers & fake snow
FASTING AS PRINCIPLE: The art of untying the knots of habit
SEVERE CLEAR: Sketch of an American Putsch & a Warning…
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Resonance, Jetstream 2.0 & Whitebark Country
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: The Carbon Footprint of Runaway Militarism
Dr. King Jr. & Thich Nhat Hanh: 14 meditations on an historic friendship
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: The SNOW BELL CURVE & the SHAPE of ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: The SNOW BELL CURVE & the SHAPE OF ABRUPT CHANGE
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Atmospheric Resonance & Jetstream 2.0
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: Snowpack anomalies documented 1st half of winter 2025/26 Northwest
LIBERATING JESUS FROM CHRISTIANITY: Freedom, Democracy & Separation of Church & State
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports: How Black Carbon & Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt
RMBL, Gothic COLORADO, at 2800m, the highest biological research lab in North America
CLOUD SEEDING, or when the ILLUSION OF CONTROL becomes reality…
Climate’s Deadly Grip, or an increase of Dwarf Misteltoe on Ponderosa Pine In the WALLOWAS
ANAPHORA, flower of flowers….
The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON
TALKING HANDS 2.0:—An overview of the 14 chapters of the new FLORILEGIUM INTRO [part I & II]
The Soil ECOLOGY of a HOTTER DRIER climate: The work of Swiss researcher, Dr. Sonia Seneviratne
TALKING HANDS, a vocal yoga:—INTRO: The 14 basic 14-step daily warmups
CONNECTION STREET: ASKO | SCHOENBERG at 50:—remembering the founding of a great ensemble…
DIABOLUS IN CANNABIS, Dutch version “‘t Duiveltje in Cannabis” with two drumkits
On Love, Learning and the World-wide Tragedy of Public Schools, 18 miniatures
FIRST AMENDMENT panelaço:—A Pots & Pans Protest Music
RUSSELL’S LAST LETTER, a remarkably clear 1970 plea for peace in the Middle East
On Simplicity, Complexity and Human Design, a set of 13 metaphysical miniatures
AMSTERDAM BIJ NACHT – een transcendentalistische visie
TODESFUGA, a soundscape on a poem by Paul Celan
LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING: Part I, James Weldon JOHNSON’S poem as Call & Response
ESSAY: Der Faschismus aus naturhistorischer Sicht: Eine Analyse des Destruktiven im Denken
FIREFLY / STARLING Project Proposal:—Algorithmic ‘SWARM’ spatial composition played LIVE!
THINK OF A RIVER (as something powerful): a flowform meditation (in geometric time)
DEATH FUGUE, on a poem by Paul Celan
IN OUR AMERICA panelaço:—A Pots & Pans music of protest
TIMES EIGHT:—music & poetry, side by side “BLATTEN, A Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS”
The BLATTEN Glacier Collapse: Climate Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS V.28.2025
TIMES TWELVE:—music & poetry, side by side “SUNSIGHT!”
TIMES FOUR: Music & Poetry, side by side “Remembrance Day”
LOST IN IDAHO, A pilgrim’s notebook….Sequences I through IX
THE ART OF LISTENING no. 2: music, nature, philosophy & new awareness
StarCYCLE DUO project: alpha PYXIS, for two pianos III“The MONK movement”
“SHARP CURVES. FALLING ROCKS. SEVERE SLIDES.” a music of protest...
HOW TO TELL IF A DEMOCRACY IS DEAD OR ALIVE, 3 vital signs—a dialogue tape
PERCUSSION STUDY no. 5 “What do we want? CLIMATE JUSTICE! When do we want it? NOW!”
THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE in the Age of Denial, a dialogue circle tape...
THE EAGLE OF FREEDOM, no. 2 “Land. Money. Carbon.”
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 11 ‘The concrete / abstraction cycle’
THE ME/WE INDEX, the INDIVIDUAL & the COLLECTIVE in an age of pandemics & runaway climate crisis
THE SCOURGE OF DISINFORMATION, a soundpoem, for my friends David JENSEN & Cathy Patterson
“LOCK ‘EM UP!” A music of PROTEST in “4 against 5” for 18 percussionists....
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 7, on a quartet of sayings by F.M. Alexander
FIELDNOTES: I report on Climate Breakdown, from the perspective of GLACIER & FOREST Time
FIELDNOTES: I report on the WHITEBARK PINE & CLIMATE BEAKDOWN situation from Cornucopia Peak
FIELDNOTES: I report on Aspen Decline, Car Culture & a hotter, drier Climate VIII.7.2019
THOUGHT, CONSCIOUSNESS & ECOANXIETY, a dialogue tape [part I]
INTRO to ANAPHORA, a streamside nature walk through the text of the piece
HERMIT THRUSH DUO, with WESTERN GRAY SQUIRREL VII.10,2019 Wallowas, OREGON
FIELDNOTES:—I report on the HERMIT THRUSH decline at HEARTBREAK MEADOW...
PASSWORD, a thought poem...
TPL (The Philosopher’s Lyre), a streamside introduction...
RIGHT ACTION IN THE FACE OF RUNAWAY MASS EXTINCTION, at Heartbreak Meadow VII.2.2019
THE PHILOSOPHER'S LYRE, a set of 11 pieces, in two parts...
FLOWERS, a soundpoem in three parts...
WEEDS, THE DRAGON TAIL ORCHESTRA 2 pianos, 2 piccolos, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones & 2 tubas
SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for Buckminster FULLER
THE VIOLIN & THE NORWEGIAN SPRUCE, a love song, for Carl SAGAN
PATIENCE IS...a soundpoem...
ON THE POWER OF BOYCOTT, OF SAYING ‘NO’--a dialogue circle tape...
THE SHAPE OF CHANGE: Intro to the 2nd season of theoretical talks...”On Maps & Movement”
ANAPHORA: or the TYRANT as a recurrent rouge species of human being...
THE VINE & THE FIG TREE, a peace & climate protest song circle
BUNKERS ON THE BEACH, for Stéphane HESSEL, in memory of Anne FRANK
DIFFERENCE, on 2 Miniatures & 2 Recaman sequences, for 2 pianos, 8 brass & 2 piccolos
FIELDNOTES: I report on a pack of SNOWMACHINES invading HEARTBREAK MEADOW...
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, a music of protest...
INTRO: 100 b & w MINIATURES Calendar I, "We shape the Music, and then, the Music shapes us"
WOODEN FLUTES, a streamside meditation on the VARIED THRUSH's song...
AN EXTINCTION OF A DIFFERENT KIND, longer version, w/ Clark's Nutcrackers counter-singing
AN EXTINCTION OF A DIFFERENT KIND, four miniatures on four fractals, for 2 pianos & 8 brass
FIELDNOTES: I report from the Eagle Cap Wilderness on our WHITEBARKS OF THE WALLOWAS Calendar
BORDER WALL (A mighty fortress is our...), bearing musical witness, w/ Simone de HAAN. trombone
THINK OF A RIVER, a set of 11 pieces...
THINK OF A RIVER, a flowform meditation...
RELEVANCE & THE RESONANCE OF BELLS, a metaphysical miniature...
TRANCE (All religions are true / All religions are false), w/ Simone de HAAN, solo trombone
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 6 "When anything is pointed out..."
ONCE CONFUSION IS PANDEMIC, a grief circle...
NOTHING, four miniatures on four DRAGON CURVE fractals, for 2 pianos & 8 brass
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 5, “If people...”
ENEMY OF THE STATE (O Lamb of the Lord), Simone de HAAN solo trombone
DISKADIA (I.II.III...) for two tubas, electric & bass guitars, 11 percussionists, & mixed ensemble
DEVIL’S TRIANGLE, a music of protest, for triple string, percussion & vocal OCTETS
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 4, “On relational resonance, part I”
THOUGHT & FIVE SPECIES OF CONCLUSIONARY RHETORIC, a dialogue tape
SINE SOLE SILEO / WITHOUT SUN I AM SILENT, a manifesto, for Patrick & Mindy HUND
ICE MOUNTAIN, for strings & 4 ensembles, for David LANDRUM, in friendship
THE WAY OF NONVIOLENCE, a roadside hymn
POEMS TO LIVE BY... [no. 5] “Death is a dialogue...” Emily DICKINSON
LET’S GO CAMPING! a musical prosepoem, w/ Simone de HAAN, solo trombone
FIELDNOTES: I report on “Siccative Coldfront Firewinds SCF’s”, Wildfire & Climate Crisis
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET, no. 3, “Step Time, part III”
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET no. 2, “Step Time, part II”
TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET no. 1, “Step Time”
A NOTE TO MYSELF...on the nature of photography
THE SOUND OF DISAPPEARING GLACIERS, a soundpoem, w/ Simone de HAAN, solo trombone
TRINITY, a soundpoem: The Devil asked, "Do you want total war?" And their God answered, "Yes."
THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE no. 8, “On Complementarity”
CLIMATE CRISIS, TRUTH-IN-FUNCTION, & RIGHT ACTION, a dialogue tape...
THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE no. 6, “On Movement, part II”
THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE no. 5, “On Movement, part I”
THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE no. 4, “On Difference, part III” w/ Simone de HAAN, trombone
FIELDNOTES: I report on Spring Snowmelt, Climate Crisis & the Diurnal FREEZE-THAW cycle
POEMS TO LIVE BY no. 4, Entrance, a poem by Rainer Maria RILKE
END OF MATERIALISM / END OF RELATIVISM, a dialogue tape
BEGGING BOWL, a soundpoem
CONIFER WEATHER, a love poem...
THOUGHT & THE STIMULI OF MECHANICAL REACTION, a dialogue tape
NOW I KNOW / just a little bit / about what it's like / to be Native / in N. America...
ETERNALLY FREE, a love poem...
FIELDNOTES: I report briefly on surreptitious 'target practice' at wilderness edge
FIELDNOTES: I report on my annual circumambulation & the WALLOWAS-AS-MANDALA
THE ETIOLOGY OF WAR, a children's rhyming choral soundpoem...
SUNSHINE & KITTENS, a musical reflection on cultural insanity, Simone de HAAN, solo trombone
3-FOLD REVOLUTION, a set of 14 new pieces...
SWEET EXTINCTIONS, SIGN OF THE TIMES & other thought poems...
EPIGRAM, the 6th "What would you do? the Earth asks" a grief circle movement...
JOHN CAGE: 10 rules for students & teachers, a soundpoem homage
EPIGRAM, a soundpoem, fourth (the PASS) movement
NIGHT MEDITATIONS ON THE SUFFERING OF THE WORLD... a soundpoem
EPIGRAM, a soundpoem, 3rd movement “MONEY”
EPIGRAM, a soundpoem, second (Confusion Is Pandemic) movement
RETUNING THE CIRCLES OF NATURE & CULTURE, a dialogue tape
EPIGRAM, a soundpoem, first (Hannah ARENDT) movement... . . .
TRUTH-IN-FUNCTION, CYCLES OF SELF-CORRECTION, & RETHINKING DEMOCRACY, a dialogue tape
INTRO: “Of Clouds & Clocks” for DRUMKIT duo, a StarCycle Project
The Sound of TIME becoming SPACE... . . .
FIELDNOTES: I report on climate crisis, snowpack, aspen decline & mt water
IHSV IN HOC SIGNO VINCES / IN THIS SIGN YOU CONQUER, sketch of a violent metaphysics...
POET, PUT DOWN YOUR BOOK...
THIS IS WAR, on a text by Marilyn WARING, w/ Simone de HAAN, solo trombone
AGAINST ENTERTAINMENT & (Lost) Glacier Park, MONTANA...
STEALTH? SECRECY? SECURITY? a soundpoem...
POEMS TO LIVE BY [no. 3] "To Music"
3 MINIATURES:---Two Mistakes & I Cancelled My Account
NO CULTURE [will survive this absence of a shared sense of the sacred] a grief circle
THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a manifesto...
Living Water & Consciousness: a dialogue tape
FIELDNOTES:--I report on the state of Whitebark Pines in the Eagle Cap Wilderness VII.2017
FIELDNOTES: I report on Woodpeckers & Winter Silence
STANDING STONE, a cyclic meditation on the IndoEuropean root of our word, "Solstice"
POEMS TO LIVE BY [no. 1] Rainer Maria RLKE, [I believe...]
3-fold REVOLUTION: a necessary unity...
PROSEPECT: Honest. Naked. Open to the future...
POEMS TO LIVE BY [no. 2] Rainer Maria RLKE, [I shudder in fear...]
A NEW TENEBRISM, set of 4 miniatures
THEATER OF THE NEW, an introduction
NONVIOLENCE, always a wider circle... . . . .
TYRANNY: a thought poem
FIELDNOTES: I report on YAMPAH & a new REVOLUTIONARY BLEND herbal smoking mixture
OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LAND: a dialogue circle on two problems . . .
Noam Chomsky's 3 Great Mistakes . . .A critical appreciation
Summer Solstice & the Geometry of Life
Breaking The Circle, a morning thoughtpoem... . , .
LIVING SOUND: Rethinking Thinking about Soundscapes
ConcertMIX picture-poems.com PODCAST: Mayday
Confusion Is Pandemic, a metaphysical soundpoem
From WATER DROP to RIVER & back, a metaphysical soundpoem
Rainer Maria RILKE, "I believe in everything not yet said," read & tr. by Cliff CREGO
REAL PHILOSOPHY? Walking the ecotone between Nature & Culture
RILKE: Sonnets To Orpheus [2nd Part] I: read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
THE GOOD & THE BAD, a set of 5 miniatures
3 MINIATURES: Poetry of Images - Epithets of a Species - On the Wayside
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS III [FIRST PART] read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
"What would you do?" the Earth asks . . .#ClimateEmergency
Remco CAMPERT, Resistance doesn't begin with big words, tr. & read by CLIFF CREGO
from ON THE WAYSIDE, two 162-step poems, BEER CAN & SEARCH GOOGLE
RIGHT ACTION IN THE FACE OF RUNAWAY RACISM, a way of looking
LOSS OF TRUTH? a meditation...
SECULAR CHRISTIAN, sketch of a dangerous metaphysics . . .
DEMOCRACY? Try to be serious . . .
RILKE: Death Experience / Todeserfahrung, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
CROW & COYOTE "No place to land..."
ConcertMIX PODCAST picture-poems.com for IX.21.2016
Hydrocarbon Man: Thoughts on a dangerous, fundamentalist worldview
FIELDNOTES: I report on Altitude & Climate Crisis
BEWARE! 3 new native invasive species: "Wackers, Kreepers & Whoats"
THE EAGLE OF FREEDOM, an introduction based on the original MINIATURE...
PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT: "The runaway"
THE FOUR RUNAWAYS--money, economy, military & empire
ConcertMIX picture-poems.com PODCAST for Spring Equinox 2016
RILKE: "Exposed on the mountains of the heart," read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
Rainer Maria RILKE, "Prayer" read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
Freedom & Limits - Pilgrim - Compassion - Retronyms - Rhythm - Notation & the Known, 6 miniatures
"FIGURES OF THOUGHT," or common language use that makes dialogue impossible
FIELDNOTES: I report on an idea for a winter refuge
The LUNAR / SOLAR Calendar, rhythms of the natural year & a revolution of thought
ConcertMIX picture-poems.com podcast for Candlemas II.1.2016
CYCLE / CIRKELLOOP, a poem by Albert Verwey, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
SEVERE CLEAR, sketch of an American putsch
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT, a narrative poem on a 4-voice ground . . .
"ROCKSTAR" as formative metaphor . . . . .
JOHN CAGE: 10 RULES FOR STUDENTS & TEACHERS
CROW & COYOTE discuss the Pope's pilgrimage to Washington
ConcertMIX picture-poems.com PODCAST for May Day 2015
IT'S POSSIBLE, a poem by Rainer Maria RILKE, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS XXI (FIRST PART), a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
FIELDNOTES: Noise pollution in an isolated sagebrush steppe at 700m., w/ Meadowlark Duo...
Two poems from ON PATHS, "Between the Ways" & "Open Road"
For a tree in the Vondel Park, a poem by M. Vasalis, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO
DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue, part one
from WINTER SONGS, "Exposed on the mountains of the heart," mezzo-soprano & violin
FIREBIRD, a long-line sonnet [after hearing the STRAVINSKY]
DOME, a long-line sonnet, for Bucky Fuller...
Percussion STUDY No. 4: in 5 voices "3:2 shift"