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Crystal Quartez Creates Soundscapes for Self-Healing in the Instagram Era

“Ceremonial sound art,” Crystal Quartez’s self-described genre, might evoke Instagram altar displays, yoga retreats and flower crowns. But the Portland musician’s first full-length album, Causal Loop, is hardly some passive, love-and-light spa soundtrack.

Holocene

With two stages, tall ceilings and hype-beast-leaning audiences, any night at Holocene can feel like an intimate warehouse party.

You Can Dance to Just About Anything You Want to in Portland

From rare cumbia to pantsless synth-pop.

A Cider Fest, Yoga With Cats and 9 Other Things to Do and See in Portland Jan. 16-22

The 11 Portland events we’re most excited about this week.

A New Score By Three Portland Composers Offers an Unconventional Take on “Night of the Living Dead”

Before Amenta Abioto, Sage Fischer and Maxx Katz wrote a score to Night of the Living Dead, they weren’t exactly fans of the movie. In fact, none of the three composers had even seen it.

Small Million Merges Americana and Synth Pop to Defy Superficial Genre Expectations

Small Million isn’t a crossover gimmick. For Graham, Small Million is a way to defy the superficial expectations of genre. “Sometimes there are some tropes of a girl with the guitar and some limitations there,” she says. “So to get to work with Ryan and really just blow the lid off is such a treat.”

Orchestra Becomes Radicalized Dismantles its Own Structures and Address Dictatorships in a New Composition

Striving for non-hierarchical form is more than just the project’s mission statement. “[Stripping away hierarchy] feels like such an ingrained value to me,” Niekrasz says. “I live in this cooperative, I participate in a goat co-op. Non-hierarchical cooperation just feels right to me. Of course, sometimes there are mediators and people who push the ball along or initiates something without a strong hand over the top of it.”

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