_Landscapes_

Click on this image to hear the music composition _Landscapes_. (Blue hour on Mt. Tabor)

The rate of speed in which we travel is unprecedented in human history. To think that for around one hundred years we have been able to speed through urban and rural spaces. These 100 years are a brief moment in comparison to our combined history.  

When I started to compose _Landscapes_, I initially thought of modernism and postmodernism in basic forms. The first pertaining to new systems. The latter pertaining to dismantling of systems. And it came to me that our modernisms are a story of movement, and this movement is accelerating. We’ve traveled through both eras, quickly. Our perception of the world (_Landscapes_) has been altered to perceive it at a different rate of velocity. Different perceptions lead to different conclusions. No wonder people are always telling one another to slow down. I question whether that’s even possible.  

_Landscapes_ is a composition of movement, of acceleration, of viewing landscapes at an ever-increasing rate of perception.  

Click on the image above or the image link to Soundcloud below to listen. Thanks so much! 

Mountains and hills have their own weather. You can see in the distance on Tillamook Head, it’s raining on an otherwise blue sky day.

13 responses to “_Landscapes_”

  1. Jane Pryce Avatar
    Jane Pryce

    Love the photos

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks Jane!

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  2. T!el Fajardo Avatar
    T!el Fajardo

    That’s a perfect soundscape for it. 🙂

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks so much!

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  3. camilla wells paynter Avatar
    camilla wells paynter

    “Different perceptions lead to different conclusions.” So true! No wonder people are always telling each other what to believe (when maybe the real message is to cut each other some slack).

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      No doubt. I with you on that one.

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  4. masonQ Avatar
    masonQ

    Nice

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Thanks!

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  5. NBevilaqua Avatar
    NBevilaqua

    Ooh–that’s gorgeous! Permission to repost?

    And Tillamook… THAT brings back some memories, especially of the night the new arrivals at Reed were taken out to the coast to spend the night looking at plankton and eating some not-so-tasty mushrooms (it was Reed–what can I say?). We stopped in Tillamook on the way. _Landscapes_ would have made a great accompaniment to that, um, trip!

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Lol. Yes, I’ve heard much about Ren-Faire(?) at Reed. Never attended one though. Thanks! And by all means, repost. I would love it.

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      1. NBevilaqua Avatar
        NBevilaqua

        Um, yeah… There was Renn Fayre too. That was (usually) a lot of fun. Paisley everywhere! I loved Reed, and Portland.

        I’ll repost your piece a little later today. I’m SUPPOSED to be working out right now, so I need to get on it!

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  6. earthwalking13 Avatar
    earthwalking13

    The mountains and hills do indeed create their own weather 😊

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    1. Ahzio Avatar
      Ahzio

      Indeed. I was hiking up a trail called Killen Creek, right up the side of Mt. Adams. The PNW had been a heat spell for a couple of months. When I reached the timberline, I felt a mist. Then it turned into rain and all semblance of the dry sun vanished. Thanks so much my friend!

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