At this year's event we're jazzed to be partnering with kin trio. They will provide mood music throughout the day that will accompany and harmonize with the all of the wonderful thoughts and ideas being shared. Eugene Lee, artist and founder of kin trio, writes below about the group: i formed kin trio in 2011 with the idea to combine two of my favorite things: bebop and minimalism. musically, i come from a bebop background and will always have a soft spot for it, no matter how experimental my projects become. recently, largely through my path of becoming a natural doctor, i've begun appreciating meditation, silence, nature. the idea of this group is to use the context of bebop, one that is normally frenetic and freewheeling, to portray these experiences of tranquility and inward focus. most of the compositions are jazz standards that have re-written melodies that are spacious and sparse, full of silences and held tones. originally in kin trio i played upright bass while noah! bernstein played alto sax and tim duroche played drums. then, when noah went on tour with the tune-yards and became an international celebrity for months on end, i took over the saxophone role and andre st. james joined on bass. both tim and andre are mainstays in the portland music scene and have an impressive set of life experiences and musical associations. tim's bio and work can be found here. whenever i ask him about his work i am confronted with a flurry of sentences involving art and culture
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