Projects this fall
There’s nothing like the intensity of having to be creative very suddenly. I recently had to come up with TV style segment in a short amount of time and the result is below. I did not know the script, the entire crew was just as surprised. Written, produced, and performed by me. The clown deal was written and directed by Kaeley Luskotoff with music recorded and performed by both of us.
Even in tough times, we all must eat. So …
This music file was what happened when I was given a 4track, a toy keyboard, a guitar, and 3 non-musicians and told to create some sort of song in like 2 hrs… lyrics are from Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire which we used permissibly for educational purposes.
“Wilderness, the word itself is music.
wilderness, wilderness….we scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.
Why such allure in the very word? What does it really mean? Can wilderness be defined in the words of government officialdom as simply “A minimum of not less than 5000 contiguous acres of roadless area?” This much may be essential in attempting a definition but it is not sufficient; something more is involved.
Suppose we say that wilderness invokes nostalgia, a justified not merely sentimental nostalgia for the lodt america our forefathers knew. The word suggests the past and the unkown, the womb of earth from which we all emerged. it means something lost and something still present, something remote and at the same time intimate, something burieed in our blood and nerves, something beyond us and without limit. Romance-but not to be dismissed on that account. The romantic view, while not the whole of truth, is a necessary part of the whole truth.
But the love of wilderness is more that a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the e