From the Prescott National Forest, (altitude 5400 ft/1650 m) in a third-growth ponderosa or blackjack pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest also with scrub oaks, juniper, and piñon along with plenty of cactus, sitting on a 1.5 Billion-year-old granite batholith, a live microphone feed before, during, and after dawn brings the sounds of the Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina), Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis), Common Raven (Corvus corax), and a variety of other birds, some neighborhood dogs, a few wind-chimes, the occasional susseration of automobiles in the distance, and the wind in the pines. It's late springtime after a winter of record-shattering warm weather and a treacherous lack of precipitation in this desert region.

After eight years of Reveil streams from a variety of locations in Colorado, this neoscenes stream, the 12th year of participation, is sent from the small cabin studio that was the site of the 2014-16 streams. Dr. John Hopkins (aka neoscenes), is a visual/sonic media artist and learning facilitator. He holds a creative practices PhD from La Trobe University/University of Technology Sydney, an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (where he studied film under renown experimental film-maker, Stan Brakhage), and a BSc in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. His transdisciplinary research and workshops explore issues surrounding sustainable creative practices, 'big-picture' system views, networked & tactical media, distributed and community-based DIY & DIWO processes, networked creativity, and Temporary Autonomous Zones. His international media arts practice explores the role of energy in techno-social systems and the effects of technology on energized human encounter. He has taught across more than 20 countries and 60 higher education situations. He was in Colorado working as the Publications Director of the Colorado Geological Survey. He is disgusted with the corrupt and violent regime in the US and is planning his expatriation to a former home in Iceland.

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