Picture/Poems by Cliff Crego

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January 2010 | pdf

Here's the PicturePoem display for the FIRST week
of February. Just down from Summit Creek | pdf 3 |
I'll be in Eagle Valley again this week doing digital
darkroom work at my office, and working on the editing of
a forthcoming book, THE LITTLE CLAVIER—New
poems and texts from Camp Lost & Found {text only pdf]
[look for new texts/photos February the 1st]

Images of the
Natural Year

Featured photo/poem translations for the first week of February 2010:

Following the Signs
to Love . . .

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)

Moving Up into Mountain Time II
five new translations from the German | poster | pdf |

SONNET TO ORPHEUSS XVI [Second Part]
[...] "For us, noise is all that is offered.
And the lamb, out of a more quiet
instinct, begs for its bell.."

Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. Clif Crego)
| listen in both German & English [RealAudio] |

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

| poster | pdf |

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

Featured on
this podcast:

new poems:
END OF
MOUNTAIN SUMMER.
ON THE WAYSDE,
6 MINIATURES,
SONNET QUARTET,
DRAWING CIRCLES,
Rilke: Entrance . . .

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

Featured Miniatures for the first week of
February 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."

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.

Seeds. Ideas.
Possible insights.

Of and for and
by the new . . .
Start your own
study / dialogue
group today!

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;

From the
PicturePoem
Collection:
Related
compositions
and essays:

Featured works for first week of February 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
IFYOULOVETHIS
PLANET—
radio with Dr. Helen
Caldicott

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
2009

| download pdf |

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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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