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Invitation to Christopher Thomson’s Opening at Sugarman Gallery Friday, August 21 in Santa Fe
Blacktail Canyon Flute
Blacktail Canyon in the Grand Canyon—steep, quiet, beautiful acoustics. 500 million year old Tapeats sandstone sits directly atop 1.75 billion year old metamorphic gneiss (on which I stand) leaving a 1.2 billion year gap in the geologic record. After seven days of paddling through the wonder drifting ever deeper into an altered state, I pulled my kayak onto the Blacktail Beach. In the waning light of the evening of 9/7/97 I hiked into the familiar canyon carrying only my flute and a tiny recorder and played all night. The tapes and morning after photo recently resurfaced in an old shoebox as I prepare for a 4 day hike/recording session into that portion of the canyon. Here is a 75 minute slice of the music that flowed through me there 18 years ago.
2 Public Sculptures at the Drury Hotel
Christopher and Elise Live at Rod and Cathy’s Party!!
“Forging His Own Path”
Front-page article in the:
“Spiral Blooms Roses #2 – Yellow” on Tuscon’s Skyline Drive
Spiral Bloom Red
New Flute Solo CD
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Click on the link above to listen to my alto and concert flute meditation. It is free to listen (46 minutes) or you may purchase and download ($9.99)
It was recorded in my tiny cliff-top studio while gazing at the river below. My improvisations in hot steel and music both involve the stilling of analytic thought. The results flow through me and often surprise me.