Creatures on Parade

Hello beautiful people!

The blackbirds are back in the pink sunset skies of Austin. They migrate here in the winter, carrying souls through the etheric journey of timeless energetic experience. This is a metaphor of life and death... embodied by emotional frequencies embedded in the recording of the Creature Sessions. The birds are a visual reminder to transcend our concept of limitation and treat our time as valuable - we should be cognizant of how, and with whom, we are spending our fleeting moments.

A musical experience is a unifying experience. We are rhythmic creatures, from the beat of our hearts to the fundamental patterns we live by. It is essential to give ourselves the opportunity to be in a place where rhythm and melody were created to exalt the feeling of freedom and passion in you. Climactic sonic messages to carry your vision higher and transcend limited perspective with the birds! You are valuable! You are valuable to us!

Come be with Creature Rock performing in the flesh

Extending to you from
Back Alley Social in Austin, TX,

The journey begins this
Saturday, November 14th
9:30-10:30PM!

Sound carries through all forms of matter and our physical and energetic bodies respond vibrationally to the oscillations, intensity, speed and frequencies through which sound waves are characterized. The word for today is cymatics - the study of visible sound and vibration and its effects on various mediums. Think of ripples in a water surface when deep thunder occurs. Our bodies are made of 70% water. Image in your mind what the soundtrack of your life literally looks like, in physical visible patterns. What sounds should you try to be avoiding or getting more of to activate your brain in a more articulate way?

Speaking of rhythm...

Halloween is the birthday of one James Ichabod Harwood, drummer extraordinaire. Creatures everywhere traditionally come together to celebrate this glorious event, and accordingly, we marched with the Krewe du Coeur Maudit through downtown Austin. Each year, James leads the cadence of the zombie drum corps. Michael with a birds eye view and homemade stilts entranced onlookers as the lone female stiltwalker among a 60,000-strong crowd of costumed revelers. Together they led a 40-foot long dragon down 6th Street, through a tunnel of camera flashes and amazed pink monkeys!

The Back Alley Social SHOW THIS SATURDAY NOV. 14 9:30 PM is right in the heart of downtown Austin!! Fifth St. near the capital building!

We're playing with Fifth Nation and our performance is going to tear the very fabric of space and time. And you know how the creatures love their costumes! This show is also the triumphant return of dancing comet Emily Boykin. The Creature, the Comet, The Ichabod... OH MY! Oh My! Music that is!

Love you all!

Create a Masterpiece with your life! -----

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Creatures Take the Stage

Wow, time really flies like the birds!

Hello beautiful people!!!

After living in the studio all summer, Creature Rock is booked and ready to play! Art Outside 2009: A 3-day Festival of Radical Self-Expression!!

OCT. 9th-11th Rockdale, TX In the spirit of Burning Man, Art Outside is one of Texas' most anticipated annual art events. Presented by the Art Seen Alliance - Held this year on the beautiful grounds of Apache Pass: three stages over 100 artists across all genres. Incredible band lineup, performance art, film and comedy, and some of the most ingenious makers bringing their interactive earth-friendly projects to share with appreciative creative souls. Sponsored by MAKE Magazine, the Onion, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap (the soap all of us crazy creatures have been using at the campgrounds since high school!) and others. Camp grounds filled with creative spirits, while sleeping and dancing under the stars! A true Art and Music adventure!

Creature Rock will be playing the Variety Stage on Friday, October 9th, 6-7PM.

Tickets are now available online! Artoutside.org Please get your ticket and come early to get your camping spot.

Drumroll, please!

At long, long last, the Creature Sessions tracking is complete! We've been shopping the mix around and have met with some great engineers and toured some great studios along the way.

The album should be in our hot little hands by year's end, and then comes the release party and serious gigging!

Bring Creature Rock to your town!

Adding to our already busy schedule, the creatures have actually bought a house and are planning the construction of a new Pink Elephant Studio!! In the midst of all this performing and mixdown action, we are actually learning about sound proof building materials, monolithic domes and their effects on acoustics, home inspection, paint, colour, architecture.. building on a large scale with function and artistry. What we learned this week is the concept of sprezzatura (thanks Derek).

Sprezzatura is an Italian word that means "to hide conscious effort and appear to accomplish difficult actions with casual nonchalance."

We've taken on several ambitious projects simultaneously and are completing all of them. It's quite magical to see things unfold with grace and ease. 16-hour days of laughing and learning and doing! Walking the tightrope of sprezzatura is an experience we all can relate to, if we allow ourselves to feel the grandness of space that exists within us. That space is sometimes not obvious. It is a discipline of building character, where you embrace the attitude of effortless ease, and that act becomes the reality. Difficulty truly is only in your mind, for a single thought can transform your choices, values, challenges, obstacles, and efficiency instantaneously. What a freedom we have, if we exercise it!

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Friday the 13th

Greetings fellow creatures,

The first half of the Creature Sessions transpired in February. The creature crew lived in the studio together for a week and the splendiferous chemistry of musicianship and creativity crystallized into an immanently powerful recording!

Michael introduced her harmonious, euphonious cronies, James "Ichabod" Harwood (drums) of Austin,TX and Mike-E McKevitt on bass (E standing for "eminent" today) of San Francisco, CA, for the first time, to work together in proper session style with our luminary Creature. There is a congruence of meaning and sound in the music that has has stayed true to her vision while interconnecting the diligence and experimentation of her players.

Michael has taken it upon herself to completely engineer the record! Her creative intent is guiding all aspects of artistic execution. She is always in service to the work while challenging her talented collaborators. Fortunately, she is spiritedly supported by her soul-mate and couterpart, Mathew, who helps with assisting the board and is contributing harmonica! These are the creative creatures who are preparing for the last half of the anticipated Creature Sessions album, which we would like to announce will be released on pink vinyl later this year!

Other-worldly delights inspired our all star players. Alongside Mike-E's night sky, sparkle purple, Rickenbacker bass (say it 7 times really fast), a propitious meteorite fireball streaked across Austin while the song "Star Child" was being tracked. It was originally suspected to be remnants from the recent satellite crash. Oh yeah, and our little mercury spill, but we won't talk about that!

Get your ticket money out your elephant pinky bank! The 9th annual M.A.L.I. Women's Film and Performance Arts Festival is showcasing the hottest women in fashion, film, and music! So of course, Michael Scott Parker will be there! All the proceeds go to at-risk teen girls. "This event is the number one source to experience innovative multi-media art in Austin,TX. Festival dates are May 28-31." We will update you on the stages and times Creature Rock will be performing!

Michael is humbled to be recognized as a luminary to so many people. Recently, she fulfilled another request to a scholar of numeral systems from Slovene, by the name of Janko Gorenc, who asked Michael to contribute her "dream language" Euthinethany's numbers to his research database of various natural and con-language systems. Janko's project consists of numbers in 14,000 sets (languages / dialects in both natural and conlangs together)! There is an update of the numbers Michael contributed on her art page.

We have had such an outpouring of appreciation from our international fans recently! We would like to thank all of you who have been writing to Michael! We are so happy to hear the music is spreading all the way out to Germany, Poland, the UK and China! Due to popular demand, with the huge number of requests for autographed photos for those of you who don't get to see Michael perform in the US, we are offering them for a limited time with purchase of a CD, T-shirt, or small print of Michael's art (see art and music pages). With the cost of shipping mail around the globe, this helps us get Michael to all of you! Michael hopes to reach all her fans with autograph requests. And keep writing in! We love hearing about all you creatures rocking out there!!

So many amazing polymaths out there! One of our favorite places to read about intelligent art is the wonderful MAKE magazine. We want to send big love and congratulations to our steampunk artist compatriots featured in the current issue MAKE:17 - Molly Friedrich and Jake von Slatt! Jake (on the cover with his Incredible Wimshurst Spark Generator) reviewed the album Naked back in 2008. Molly "Porkshanks", a Seattle-based costume / jewelry artist, made Michael's creature goggles for stage, that we've had so many compliments on! Be sure to read her article on building the "Discreet Companion" ladies' raygun! There is also a great article on one of Michael's all time favorite creators, William Blake, and his process of "illuminated printing."

Enhance your eloquence with a trio of homonyms plus one...

immanent - of God, permanently pervading and sustaining the universe.
eminent - Exalted in dignity, character, quality: majestic in sound.
imminent - Impending, soon to happen.
luminary - A source of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light.

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