Shadows, found objects, variances of light controlling soundings, gestures... Moving on from crudely fashioned fish, birds, and dragons, here’s the first of an intended series incorporating found objects. This one was a birthday gift from a neighbor who knew I’d like it. She thought it looked like a headless person with arms raised. It reminded me of a moose. I’ve obviously gone for that interpretation in this video. March 12, 2020.

Mid-March morning walk meditation in Northern New Jersey. March 15, 2020.

Another found object critter. I think I should call these chatterboxes. March 18, 2020.

Down by the pond in Mount Tabor, New Jersey, March 21, 2020.

How about a little found object Unicorn Chatterbox, accompanied by some bells, to join in our solitudes on a somewhat snowy/rainy Spring day? March 23, 2020.

In the hope of bringing a moment of calm, as it did for me, here’s another local sign of Spring in Mount Tabor, NJ, March 24, 2020.

Tabletop found object chatterbox with Spring green video inlay made March 27, 2020.

Magnolia buds on a drizzly day in Northern New Jersey, March 29, 2020.

Assuming the character of the Masked Crater Inspector, I participated along with a few hundred others in an extraordinary production over Zoom of:

FULL PINK MOON: Opera Povera from Quarantine

A Worldwide Fundraising Live Stream of Pauline Oliveros’s Open Form The Lunar Opera; Deep Listening For_Tunes

Tuesday, April 7th (the night of the Full Super Pink Moon) 2020

FULL PINK MOON is presented by the University of Chicago’s Richard & Mary L. Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry and California Institute of the Arts.

Pond life, Mount Tabor, NJ, featuring two duck decoys, a turtle, a robin, a willow tree and accompanied by vociferous white-throated sparrows and robins. April 12, 2020.

Skunk cabbage and a little stream seen on my walk, April 16, 2020.

Staying close to the earth. April 20, 2020.

Another take on staying close to the earth, for Earth Day. “In Wildness is the preservation of the world” -Henry David Thoreau -April 20, 2020.

Backyard treescape, with Greenman. Kingston, New York, July 5, 2020.

Rose of Sharon, with cicadas sounding nearby and a butterfly making a brief appearance. Kingston, New York, July 22, 2020.

Very brief and a bit jerky (ah, bandwidth), but still somewhat meditative and representative of a welcome adventure of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse in Rio de Janeiro. August 30, 2020.