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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#musicsky Edgard Varèse ARCANA (1927) Mehta & LA Philharmonic (1972) www.youtube.com/watch?v=830I... Despite edits, still the best recording of ARCANA. I doubt very much LA could do better for the 100 year anniversary 2027… #Varèse #jazzsky #ZAPPA #RiotAtTheRITE

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Varèse: Arcana - Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic (Decca Pure Analogue vinyl: Soundsmith)

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

thread #RiotAtTheRITE NEW MUSIC Reports: The #BOULEZ Legacy & Beyond.... READ report pdf [3Mb] READ full report [3Mb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-bou... LISTEN to short summary [7M] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/the-boul... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #newmusic #classicalmusic #PARIS #LONDON #NYC #BERLIN

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#flute #classicalmusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PSq... Models of the earliest-known flutes found in N. America, made of Boxelder (Acer negundo) +-1350 yrs before present & before European contact: Tuning, unlike 5-tone minor of Hollywood Native Flute, features minor AND major 3rds… #RiotAtTheRITE

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What is a Native American ANASAZI or PUEBLO Flute? How do they Sound? History and Comparing keys

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#booksky 📚 On #Simplicity, #Complexity and Human #Design, a set of 13 metaphysical miniatures pdf [60Kb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/simple-... Audio soundscape wav [89Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/simple-c... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵[my record label…] #music #poetry #mathematics #RiotAtTheRITE

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#phenology ALPINE FLEECEFLOWER (Koenigia phytolaccifolium) Signature Fall color above 1800m #WALLOWAS #OREGON #TalkingHands #yoga #foto #photo

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎵 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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#foto BRINGING HOME THE SHEEP, a 3-day round trip, Urnerland, the #ALPS About 120 ewes w/ lambs, all the combined animals of three families, are taken on foot to summer pasture btwn Summer Solstice & Fall Equinox btwn 1800 to 2400m

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🎵 #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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#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 🚴🏼‍♂️

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#foto Sulfur Cinquefoil (Potentila recta) skyview 1440m +-Summer Solstice. There are 3 other native Potentilas at this elevation #WALLOWAS #OREGON I know this Cinquefoil from the #ALPS. In the WALLOWAS, it forms monocultures w/ a distinctive synchronized rhythm: they open together at noon! #flora

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#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!

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"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#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

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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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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🎵 #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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#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 🌎

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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

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Pierre Boulez, sur Incises - Ensemble intercontemporain

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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-...

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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

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Why Nobody Wants to Visit Moab, Utah Anymore

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#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

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#musicsky #poetry OCTOBER MORNING: Four Miniatures “Beautiful is the Circle” LISTEN to mp3 [138Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/october-... (1) WAR ON WASTE (2) MORNING MOON (3) WAVEWASH (4) BACKCOUNTRY “O mood of morning moon, how lost to my solstice star” 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #foto Glacier melt #ALPS

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#musicsky 🎵 NEW MUSIC Reports: Edgard Varèse & the Radical Transformation of American Music (1915–1927), by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/... Full report pdf [1Mb] www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/varese-... 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #RiotAtTheRITE #Varèse #ZAPPA #percussion #slagwerk #jazzsky

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#foto DEVIL’S ROPE 😱 scourge of the West: Barb on Wire; Barb on Plant... STEENS Mountain #OREGON: Volunteers removed 63 miles (approx. 101 km) of fencing by hand, weighing more than 125 tons. #ecology #philosophy #ethics #photo #WALLOWAS Land of Winding Waters…

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feetforbrains @feetforbrains.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The 1964 Wilderness Act makes this "move" illegal. There are no provisions for allowing roads or machines into designated Wilderness (big "W") and they can't just ignore the provisions of that Law.

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wonderfully poor word choice here, reminds me of this poem by Billy Collins:

The Country
by Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#wilderflowers Muhakum (Shoshone) CURLY-CUP GUMWEED (Grindelia squarrosa) w/ remarkably resinous bracts in overlapping rows of phyllaries, in decrescendo 1300m, flourishing in #WALLOWAS #OREGON AUGUST HOT DROUGHT You can pick these gummy buds & chew them! Clears lungs of smoke #nativeplants #foto

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#BACH Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl/Let, Princess, let one more ray, 'Trauerode / Mourning Ode' A secular cantata 2 parts, 1st performed University #LEIPZIG 1727 BWV198 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPR... A wonderful performance by the world class #DUTCH ensemble. #classicalmusic #AMSTERDAM ☮️🙏

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Bach - Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl, 'Trauerode' BWV 198 - Luks | Netherlands Bach Society

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#nativeplants 🌿 Yellow Mule’s ears (Wyethia amplexicaulis) distinctively beautiful leaf venation. At 1300m grows next to White Mule’s ears (W. helianthoides) that flowers abt 2 or 3 weeks earlier. Genus named for The Ice Man featured in #THOREAU WALDEN POND. #OREGON #wildflowers #foto #WALLOWAS

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#foto Whitebark pine 🌲 Timeline composed on a crosscut of its wood, from 1750 (the death of #BACH) to present… Each red dot marks an 🌎 population increase of 1,000,000,000 ppl in just 15cm of the wood’s tight grain #ClimateBREAKDOWN #WALLOWAS #OREGON

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#ClimateBREAKDOWN #wildfire 🔥 Oregon & Washington Wildfire: 0% Contained, I-90 Threatened & 25K Firefighters on the Line www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx8... That I #bikepack 🚴🏼‍♂️ thru most of the areas is not remarkable. What is remarkable is that the government lies abt everything & focuses on #WAR

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🔥 Oregon & Washington Wildfire Crisis: 0% Contained, I-90 Threatened & 25K Firefighters on the Line

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#foto FIELDWORK on the former BENSON GLACIER w/ (Lost) Glacier Peak c.2900m Eagle Caps #WALLOWAS #OREGON A part of my slideshow COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, book one, the TEACHING TREE & LIVING WATER sequences vimeo.com/860227400 #trekking #photo The source of the ice that carved WALLOWA LAKE 1400m

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