JOHN CAGE: 10 Rules for Teachers & Students This is John CAGE at his best. Two insightful reactions to the confused and confusing era of musical totalitarianism of Schoenberg and Stockhausen were: (1) XENAKIS and his emphasis not on parts (note...

#musicsky 🎵 John CAGE: 10 Rules for Teachers & Students… vimeo.com/947075794

A tribute to the #ZEN #poet of American composers…
I improvise—not very well—on a CAGE prepared #piano;
Simone de HAAN plays #trombone
mostly backwards…

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #JohnCAGE #VARÈSE #STRAVINSKY #jazzsky #RiotAtTheRITE

🎵 #musicsky WHAT'S NEXT VIVALDI? // Patricia Kopatchinskaja, 🎻 violin & Il Giardino Armonico w/ conductor Giovann Antonini m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmeg...

Giovanni Antonini &
Il Giardino Armonico
celebrate the composer
who made them famous!

#Vivaldi #RiotAtTheRITE #violin #viool #Geige

🎵 #Musicsky Guillaume Dufay Journey In Italy, LA REVERDIE m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSkS...

A mastery of many-voiced,
polyphonic sound,
both in composition
& performance

#RiotAtTheRITE #DUFAY (c. 1400-1474 Belgium/France) #simple #complex #simplexity #Italia #voice #poesia

X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET “Study In Pizzicaro” One approach to the rhythmic complexity of the piece is, of course, to simplify. Practice first as a purely percussion piece, without the instruments, singing / drumming the movements without pitch an...

#GoBIKES 🚴🏼‍♂️🎶 X-COUNTRY STRING QUARTET “Study In Pizzicato” vimeo.com/935577149

score pdf bit.ly/z4rm8O
parts pdf bit.ly/4aZsRMD

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musica #poetica #filosofia #StringQUARTET #StrijkKwartet #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #fietsen #viool #velo #Geige #Fahrrad #RiotAtTheRITE #PoetsWithoutBorders 🌎

#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

thread A beautiful score to study and behold… #RiotAtTheRITE #BACH #musicsky #booksky

#musicsky ♫ #BACH MOTET BMV 118
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht
O Jesus Christ, light of my life
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8U...

A magnificent performance
from #AMSTERDAM

#booksky 📚 Score pdf picture-poems.com/pdfs/bach-mo...

#RiotAtTheRITE

NEW MUSIC Reports: Fighting for Progressive Music in Reactionary Times…AMSTERDAM ENGLISH summary of a detailed Dutch Report: De Architectuur van de Nederlandse Avant-Garde: De Notenkraker-generatie en de Institutionele Strijd tegen Culturele Erosie http://www.picture-poems.com/pdf

#jazzsky 🎵 NEW MUSIC Reports: Fighting for Progressive Music in Reactionary Times…AMSTERDAM, by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #PoetsWithoutBorders #RiotAtTheRITE #Varèse #ZAPPA

#musicsky 🎵 Just 59 days to our yearly #RiotAtTheRITE MAY 29 celebration of the 1st performance of #STRAVINSKY (1) Rite of Spring

1 of 4 keystones of NEW MUSIC
(2) ARCANA by Edgard #Varèse 1927
(3) 4th SYMPHONY by Charles #IVES 1959
(4) EPIFANIA by Luciano #BERIO 1961

All the rest is mere history

#booksky 📚 #STRAVINSKY, An Autobiography #pdf buff.ly/398Jr20

Written c. 1936 in France, some 23 years
after the great rogue wave of creativity
that crashed in #PARIS with the BALLET RUSSE
& THE RITE OF SPRING....

#RiotAtTheRITE #foto Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Stravinsky, Paris 1913

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♫ #musicsky Edgar Varèse: Déserts (World Premiere, PARIS, XII.2.1954), Hermann Scherchen conducting, Pierre Henry, tape m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihr...

Historic. Wrong notes / rhythms
as abundant as cheatgrass in Spring.
Yet the music is still strong!

#varese #brass #percussion #ZAPPA #RiotAtTheRITE

#musicsky 🪘 #KRISHNAMURTI Foundation #INDIA At the Sahyadri School (established 1995) musical evening, Tabla Duo www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx80...

BRAVO! Note their “talking drum”
dialogue in the middle! Much
to learn from this!

#drumming #percussion #tabla #PoetsWithoutBorders #RiotAtTheRITE

EVERY TIME A BOMB FALLS / CADA VEZ QUE CAE UNA BOMBA….A symphonic soundpoem Every time a bomb falls, we see a Technology, a Science without intelligence, without ethics; Every time a bomb falls, we see an Economy at war with the beloved community, the beloved sanga Of the Ea

🎵 #musicsky EVERY TIME A BOMB FALLS / CADA VEZ QUE CAE UNA BOMBA….A symphonic soundpoem, by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 🌎 #PoetsWithoutBorders 🙏 #RiotAtTheRITE #poem #poesia #UKRAINE #RUSSIA #GAZA #ISRAEL #LEBANON #IRAN #CUBA

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? A poem for Spring Equinox / New Year III.20.2026 IMAGE: Tradition New Year’s Spring Equinox meal of herbal rice & rice made especially for recue workers in TEHRAN… How did this happen? Outside of London, 2000 pound bombs are loaded one after the o

#musicsky HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? A poem for Spring Equinox / New Year III.20.2026, by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 🌎 #PoetsWithoutBorders 🙏 #RiotAtTheRITE #jazzsky #Sufism #SpringEquinox #Israel #IRAN #poem #poetry #Varèse #ZAPPA #percussion

#musicsky For my off-grid #solar recording studio/ rec. label, I use three slightly different in content hashtags

(1) 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵

(2) 🌎 #PoetsWithoutBorders 🌎 [new #nonviolence #AntiWAR #poetry]

(3) #RiotAtTheRITE [music I write in the #Varèse #IVES #Stravinsky #BERIO #XENAKIS tradition]

DESERTS, by Edgar Varèse, for small orchestra & tape (part 2) ASKO Ensemble, w/ CLIFF CREGO conducting. PART II begins just as the first tape interpolation ends... One of the many fragmentations of Western musical practice, as we know it, is the fragmentation

🎵 #musicsky DESERTS, by Edgar #Varèse, orchestra & tape (part 2) Cliff Crego conducting soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

We play Varèse here w/ natural tuning,
(Ie. 5th & 4ths +-perfectly in tune)
& w/ geometric tempi relationships.
This makes it sound wildly organic!

#RiotAtTheRITE #ZAPPA #jazzsky

#philosophy #poetry #aphorism #RiotAtTheRITE

One of the greatest sins against Music
& Nature is how Western Culture
has commercialized everything.

A sign is that kids grow up now
around ppl who no longer sing…
who no longer know poems by heart…

#Trekking in #wilderness is where
that might heal…🌎

SIMPLE DESIRES / DESEOS SIMPLES, a soundpoem, featuring Bufo borealis… SIMPLE DESIRES I want to live my life like a bell, resonant and whole, ringing out from a hill on all its sides into the clear alpine air; or like an humble mountain toad, Bufo borealis, hungry for

🎵 #musicsky #poetry SIMPLE DESIRES / DESEOS SIMPLES, a soundpoem, featuring Bufo borealis….by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

“…or like a humble mountain toad,
hungry for love, singing the instant
it digs out of the muddy spring earth…”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #poem #poesia #RiotAtTheRITE

#booksky 📚 Conversations with Stravinsky (1959) by Robert Craft ebook pdf [18Mb] picture-poems.com/pdfs/convers...

A remarkable document. Observations
from the watershed year of 1959, looking
back to #PARIS, & forward to #LA.

#stravinsky #robertcraft 78 days to our annual May 29th! #RiotAtTheRITE

#mathematics #music #philosophy MANDALA (a turning wheel or cycle) for describing the shape of change, both QUALITATIVELY & QUANTITATIVELY of any world

#MUSIC in this view is MOVEMENT
a movement of RELATIONSHIP

I’m looking for mathematicians w/ backgrounds in BOHMIAN #physics & #AI

#RiotAtTheRITE

#booksky 📚 #design from 100 MINIATURES
(87) a set of one hundred aphorisms & sayings in prose…

Structure IMPOSED from without
vs. structure EMERGING from within

#ebook [604Kb] bit.ly/2i0IvRc

mp3 audio [30Mb] 3rd part [50-74] picture-poems.com/mp3/100-mini...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #RiotAtTheRITE

🎵 #musicksky ANAKTOS:—8 players / 16 timpani / 1 circle / 0 conductor

Play wav [60Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/anaktos....

Score [405Kb] pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/anaktos...

ANAKTOS = the circle as collective is sovereign

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #percussion #slagwerk #Schlagzeug 🥁 #RiotAtTheRITE

#foto Mountain stream on URNERLAND granite, #Switzerland

In limit, there's #FREEDOM;
In freedom, LIMIT.
Even the wildest of #RIVERS
creates itself the bed of hard rock
that orders its flow… . . .

#design #photography #RiotAtTheRITE

#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

(1) #booksky READING: 📚 eBOOK #DavidBohm:

Arguably, one the most insightful #philosophy
books since #PLATO and #SOCRATES ….

"Wholeness & the Implicate Order"
#pdf [884Kb] www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Da...

#Philosofie #Etik #nonviolence ☮️ #Krishnamurti #RiotAtTheRITE #ethics #AI #intelligence

♫ #BACH A beautiful Dutch performance of Cantata BWV 4 Christ lag in Todes Banden m.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Pi...

NOTE the wonderful counter-singing
of DUO II “No one could defeat death
among all humanity, this was all because
of our sins, no innocence...”

#Posaune #Trombone#musicsky #RiotAtTheRITE

ANAKTOS:—8 players / 16 timpani / 1 circle / 0 conductor ANAKTOS comes from the Greek word ἄναξ (anax) — meaning lord, sovereign, high king. It appears in Iliad and Odyssey — most famously in the phrase anax andrōn (“lord of men”) used for Agamemnon. For t

🎵 #musicsky 🥁 ANAKTOS:—8 players / 16 timpani / 1 circle / 0 conductor, by Cliff CREGO soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

Score, parts, analysis etc at www.cs-music.com/drums

#percussion #slagwerk #Sclagzeug #timpani #drumming #RiotAtTheRITE #Varèse

CÍRCULOS dentro de CÍRCULOS: Música, ética y religión en un paisaje sonoro de contrabajo… Filosofía? Basta con una mala idea para destruir a un hombre, una mujer o incluso a una civilización entera. La filosofía no es solo algo en lo que pensamos; es algo que hacemos, una práctica, como la

🎵 #musica #filosofia CÍRCULOS dentro de CÍRCULOS: Música, ética y religión en un paisaje sonoro de contrabajo… von soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

¿MÚSICA? Lo único que hacen los humanos
que pone celosa al resto de la NATURALEZA.

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky #RiotAtTheRITE #contrabass

The difference btwn #COMPLICATEDNESS & #COMPLEXITY? COMPLICATEDNESS results when we break apart Nature’s fundamental simplicity/complexity complementarity cycle 🌈

COMPLICATEDNESS as meaningless
difficulty is always BAD;
COMPLEXITY as richness, as diversity,
is always GOOD.

#design #RiotAtTheRITE

🎵 #music #poetry #philosophy CIRCLE WITHIN CIRCLE: Music, ethics & religion in a contrabass 🎻 soundscape

Play Wav [40Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/circle-w...

Text & background for performance of CIRCLE WITHIN CIRCLE www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-cir...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky #RiotAtTheRITE