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CALENDAR 2010 | pdf

Here's the PicturePoem display for the THIRD week
of August. Just down at my office in Eagle Valley from Krag
Peak & the west Cliff River ridgeline. | view time-lapse sequence
[50.4 Mb QuickTime] | Leaving for Glacier Wednesday.

The new book, THE LITTLE CLAVIER (631 pages / pdf 110.7 Mb), is finished. (see below).

a new Photoweek Northwest slideshow: Spring Branding Roundup— Pine Valley Ranch open in new page; or download here [17.45 Mb Requires QuickTime] or download as (printable) PDF| Windows: r click;
Mac: opt + click |

The AUGUST Display . . .

Summer WEEK III
texts, images
& poems

CALENDAR
August 2010 | pdf

A NEW SLIDESHOW!About 340 new images, with ± 21' run-time. This is a dress-rehearsal, without explanatory texts, but with comparative summer/ice snow photos, and many apline species shown in different phases of development. Some 30 photos of whitebark pines in trouble, as well. Look for this set to be updated in the coming weeks. Cliff

click to download here [58.1 Mb Requires QuickTime] or download as (printable) PDF 44.8 Mb ]| Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click |

Images of the
Natural Year

Featured photo/poem translations for the THIRD week of August 2010:

Urnerland,
slooking East
—the Alps

The View to Infinity and Back
five new translations from the German | poster | pdf |

[ I live my life in growing rings ]

I live my life in growing rings
that move out over the things around me.
Perhaps I'll never complete the last,
but that's what I mean to try.

I'm circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I've been circling for thousands of years;
and I still don't know: am I a falcon, a storm
or a great song.

Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Clif Crego)

Following the Signs to Love
ten new translations from the Dutch

TELEPHONE

No death manifests in the number
that connected the two of us.
Nothing is in the apparatus
other than the hissing of eternity. [...]

Gerrit Achterberg (1905 - 1962) (tr. Clif Crego)

Mt. Contradiction . . .
a new translation from
the German | poster | pdf |

STONE SONG
Stone Song.mp3 [15' 6.7 Mb]
[to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
Or listen in streamed RealAudio: RA

Each week, a new
photograph,
presented together
with new English
translations from both
Dutch and German
contemporary
literature. Archive at:
R2C: Straight roads,
Slow rivers, Deep clay.

See also from
the Rilke Website:
Im Bild

The Rilke
Archive: Two
years of bi-
weekly
features

Photoweek
Archive

| this week's newsletter |

Above Hidden Lake—FIELDWORK
—North America

Heather Camp
Alpine FIELDWORK
—North America

A soundpoem for electro-percussion
orchestra & voice. Based on new English
translations of eight poems by one of
the finest Dutch poets,
Gerrit Achterberg. | poster | pdf |

6 poems of the
cycle .Stone Song
Liberty, Sound Board,
Kabbalistic, Telephone,
Snow Passage

PicturePoems Podcast—texts & poems
performed by Cliff Crego Picture/Poems JULY Podcast
[ c. 36' 48.5 Mb ] | to download: Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click |
NOVEMBER Podcast [ c. 52' 70.7 Mb ]
OCTOBER Podcast [ c. 28' 25.3 Mb ] rss

Featured on
the JULYpodcast:

new RILKE translations:
of 20 poems &
12 wilderness
soundscape
interpolations, featuring
among others Hermit
Varied, and Swainson
Thrushes, water sounds,
coyote and Western Toad
choruses, and
Cliff playing on a
cooking pan . . .

A PicturePoems Essay: "In a dream, or in a kind of half dream-like state, I'm not quite sure which, I recently had this figure come
to me in a strikingly vivid, forceful way."

Moving Up into
Mountain Time I
new translations from
the German

Fall Round-up with
Dan Forsea, award-winning
rancher in Eagle Valley, USA

[10' | 12.3 Mb]
| download: slideshow or
view as pdf [ 37.2 Mb ] |

Forsea Ranch—link at
COUNTRY NATURAL BEEF

P/P Link special feature: Remembering Hiroshima . . .

A lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear
critic, Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians
for Social Responsibility in the United States.
Her message is clear: disarmament cannot be postponed.
Archival film footage of the bombing of Hiroshima
and images of its survivors seven months after the
attack heighten the urgency of her message.

"Released during the term of the Reagan administration and at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, If You Love This Planet was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice and suppressed in the United States.[1] The subsequent uproar over that action gave the film a publicity boost; it went on to win the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.[2] It appears that the first cinema showing of the film in Britain did not occur until April 2008, when it was screened by the London Socialist Film Co-op."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Love_This_Planet]

You can view the film online at:

If You Love This Planet

Featured Miniatures for the THIRD week of
August 2010:

Publishing the Future; Poetry of Music;
Commercial Art; Time; Limits: Protect

Previous Miniatures:
Limit Falls; Grain of Space;
Circle/Square; No Edge Lines!

Aphorisms: 17-steps; Relational
Resonances; Pianoforte

Seeds of New Meaning; The New Tenebrism;
Movement; The Poetry of Images

Publishing the Future; Poetry of Music;
Commercial Art; Time; Limits: Protect

Mirrors Made of Sound . . .

Natural Complexity; Road of Change;
Loss of Rhythm; Musica Sacra

Thoughts for
the Week
and other
Metaphysical
Miniatures
"Flowers are to the
background green
of meadow and forest
what a poem is to the
constant chatter of sounds
which surrounds us.
How strikingly beautiful
they are, these centers
where essences
converge."

archive of miniatures

POSTER:—
INTERWOVEN SIMPLICTY
& COMPLEXITY

| pdf |

The difference
between
complexity &
mere
complicatedness . . . .

Purchase
Miniatures
online

P/P Miniature
Slide Show
[c. 11'30" QT opens
in new window]

P/P Poster:
ZERO | pdf |

Zero,
such a shy performer,
at first hiding behind the no's "n",
you step out onto the clear, open page;

Visit the Archive
of PicturePoem
Miniatures.

Or browse
selected A4
Posters
at the
online store . . .

Theater of the New
a collection of 100
progressive DVD
theme projects.
grouped in 10 sets
of 10.

Change is the second
mos difficult thing;
Understanding, the first.
. .

Start your own
study / dialogue
group today! pdf |

Cliff Crego, Horton Pass, November Wallowas

Fieldwork at
Horton Pass . . .

SIMPLE DESIRES
I want to live my life like a bell, not large, but small,
resonant, whole—a bell
that rings out into the
open air from all it sides;

P/P Poster
SIMPLE DESIRES . . .
| pdf |

WAR?—a way of
looking | pdf |

A Way of Looking—
Seen from the perspective
of the Whole, war is always
the left hand of humanity
fighting the right;

Theater of the New feature for this week:
Radio Bikini: A nuclear tragedy
Experience (Robert Stone 2009) | ON NETFLIX |

From the
PicturePoem
Collection:
Related
compositions
and essays:

Featured works for THIRD week of August 2010:

Music for a New Millennium . . .

OCTET Project
a set of 12 pieces
for flute, oboe,
clarinet, bassoon,
horn, trumpet,
trombone, and bass.
4 new pieces
& 8 arrangements
of music from
Machaut, Purcell,
J.S. Bach, Mozart
and Stravinsky.

Intended as jump-start
for a new ensemble
of young virtuosi . . .

Cliff Crego's website
for New Music

| What's New Page |

| Download mp3s |

the magic box: new music for mallets
a set of twelve new scores for
vibraphone and marimba duo

timeline, for Donald Erb | pdf | mp3 |

blue monk changes | pdf | mp3 |
based on the Thelonius Monk tune

Visit the Circle/Square
DRUMS Page at:
www.cs-music.com/drums

Duo Vertigo's
new CD
featuring fine
first recordings
of five
magic box
pieces . . .

| buy at iTunes |

New Music for VIOLA
or solo viola, duo,
quartet & ensemble

m—version for viola solo
A \Star Cycle project for solo performer.
In four movements (c. 12') I:Callisto's Lament
Go to pages in score frame I | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| pdf | mp3 |

Visit the Circle/Square
SOUNDPOEMS Page at:
www.cs-music.com/sound

Visit the Circle/Square
TRILLIUM COLLECTION at:
www.cs-music.com/trillium.html
New string trio music for kids
based of Celtic classics . . .

SOUNDPOEMS—
Electro-acoustic
compositions for voice &
percussion orchestra

featured this week . . .

STATE OF THE UNION mp3
[c. 8' 30" | 3.9 Mb]

an electronic meditation
on a recent North American
political address . . .

Featured
Recordings:
And from the
Rilke Website

another archive of
features in both
German and English:
Rilke: complete
Index of poems

New Recordings of Translations:

Horace: Satire II: no. 6: Two Mice
[opens in new window | QuickTime]

Once upon a time a country mouse
gave hospitality in his poor
hole to a city mouse...

Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65 - 8 BCE
(tr. Sydney Alexander; read by Cliff Crego)

12 Miniatures by Emily Dickinson
selected and read by Cliff Crego
[opens in new window | QuickTime]

Watch Cliff Crego
perform
from Rilke's
famous
Liebes-Lied/
Love Song
[opens in new window | QT]

New Picture/Poem Books, eBooks & Recordings: order on Amazon . . .

	PART I: ON PATHS: mp3 [c. 13' 3 Mb] Listen to ON PATHS: 82 shorter highcountry poems
VIEW as eBook (1 MB pdf) ORDER: ON PATHS

Wander the Web:
Suggested link
of the week
Muhammed Yunus &
Ending Global
Poverty

Recent link
features

WATER —
Food & Water Watch

Sudden Aspen Death

Abrupt Climate Change

The Story of Stuff

Adam Joseph
Lewis Center for
Environmental Studies

Meadow's End &
John Harte at RMBL

Dr. David Orr

On War and Peace
by Krishnamurti

Varèse & Stravinsky

| LINKS ARCHIVE |

browse RILKE POSTERS
online . . . | slideshow |

THE VOICES --

A new sound poem for
percussion orchestra
& voice
based on the famous
poem sequence
of Rainer Maria Rilke

| German / English text |

DOWNLOAD
[Windows: r click; Mac: opt + click]
the voices: I-IV, Interlude
I,V-VII & Interlude II.mp3
[c. 23' 9 Mb]
Or listen in streamed
RealAudio: RA

Morning Quaking Aspen—
October Eagle Cap Wilderness

RIDGE CROSSING—
a song cycle
for mezzo-soprano
& piano

| preview |

ORDER online—

Wallowa Wildflowers . . .

Wallowa Weeds . . .

Cusick's Monkey Flower
(Mimulus cusickii)

Sulphur Cinquefoil
Eagle Creek Canyon (Potentila recta)

Get the Picture/
Poems
Lunar-solar
CALENDAR
2010

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(1) Atrazine & the Leopard Frog
(2) War, Waste & the Bomb

GUEST GALLERY—
a new guest photo by Russ Westlake,
Thorp Creek Basin NOVEMBER'S photos
by Rob Stacey are at Elk on Big Lookout Mountain



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