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Music Profile

Pregnant and Loving It

Daniel Trudeau is a widely published unknown artist under the moniker Pregnant. He has a catalog of original music releases, a nice collection of videos, but nobody has signed him exclusively. Start-up indie labels and online magazines look for him for a cool product because they recognize certain appeals. Pregnant is a west coast  electronic, lo-fi, […]

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Audio War & Peace

Daniel Sheehan Unmasks the Shadow Government

In this recording, transferred from an audio cassette copy, a forgotten about legal firm named the Christic Institute tries to “unmask the shadow government.” Daniel Sheehan provides revelations toward the end of more than ten years of service investigating the covert operations of George Bush, Richard Nixon, and the CIA. He discusses the events that […]

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Dance

An Existential Exploration

NW Dance Project : Summer Splendors Northwest Dance Project opened its doors last night for the annual Summer Splendors and the final show of the 2013-2014 season. The program offers two world premieres with an intermission before two reworked original pieces, for the second half. It is a beautiful space, the evening light gently illuminating […]

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Festival Music

Movement is the Summit of Improvisation

This year’s Improvisation Summit of Portland, produced by the Creative Music Guild, happened to fall on one of the busiest weekends of the year, marking the beginning of that marvelous summer season of arts in Portland. Opera, Symphony, and Theater schedules are gone with the end of spring, but Portland summers are fantastic with special […]

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Arts Review Festival Film

The Reach of Resonance Grabs the Highest Fruit

As a kind of soft opening to the Improvisation Summit of Portland in 2014, Creative Music Guild partnered with Northwest Film Center to screen a film called, The Reach of Resonance. Although not many ideas are particularly new and few techniques presented there are truly groundbreaking in contemporary art, I found extraordinary value to it. […]