C.E Putnam has lived in four world capitals: London, Singapore, Bangkok, and Washington DC but now operates the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research (P.I.S.O.R.) from Portland, Oregon.  Inside his seventh book, The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird (P.I.S.O.R. Publications 2024), you might find: an amazing bowl of noodles, a shortwave radio, starfish, eight kinds of rain, semi house trained beavers, a frequently tardy blacksmith, so much moss, penguin priests, and many more creatures living, dying, and dead!

His sound works include P.I.S.O.R. SCARES, a series of mind-melting Halloween themed sound collages and an ambient-drone work, “Music for Plants and Other Living Things.” 

Andy Criest is a Portland Musician