An ongoing inquiry into music, from classics to drones, with occasional pauses to admire the scenery.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Sunday desert blogging
It snowed in the mountains, but spring is approaching in the desert. Winter has been relatively wet, so we expect a bumper crop of wildflowers. This was about the time we saw the first snowdrops back east, and the desert has corresponding small purple flowers. But this picture of the distant snows with a saguaro skeleton summed up a perfect day.
Cathedral was composed over a two-year period almost entirely from piano samples, plus a very few night-time crickets recorded in our wildflower garden in central Ohio. "One majestic piece of drone music" — Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly.
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3 comments:
very awesome! I can only imagine what it would be like to look off in the distance and see snow, yet still be surrounded by cacti.
Is this in or around Tonto NM or Globe, AZ? This vista is familiar. Glad for you to be there to see...
-wobbly
Saguaro National Park west of Tucson, with the Santa Catalina mountains in the background, where they have spring skiing in February.
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