2010-02-02

One of a Kind

Beautiful Beings of expanding mind!

Creature Rock performances are always one of a kind! Just like the Creature, who is an uncommon find with her unique sense of style which appears to be alive! However, her choice of show themes are always universal. Although, you wouldn't describe it as commercial... CREATURE ROCK is the daily special THIS THURS WATCH US ON TV!!

FOX 7 AustinFOX 7- Music in the Morning special on Good Day Austin! Thurs. Feb. 4th (7:30 am Central) Debuting with magnanimous and gifted violinist, Michelle Alany, the striking comet of a dancer, Miss Emily Boykin, and the Yin and Yang of Creature Rock... rhythm knight, James Ichabod and rock saint, Michael Creature. LIVE ON THE AIR talk and rock with news anchors Joe Bickett and Katherine Kisiel... (the alliterative Katherine Kisiel!)

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Creature Rock melts the Flamingo CantinaCR melted the Flamingo Cantina last week with with their RED HOT INNER FIRE show and thoroughly burst into flames to Moonticca and the Texas Clock and Disciples of Sound with intensely high energy all night long! Thanks guys let's do it again! We really painted the town red!

LAMBERTS- FEB 6th This Sat!! 10:30 pm CREATURE ROCK LIVE! Their One of a Kind performance is in honor of the Phoenix that arose from the heat of the red hot inner fire!

The universal theme of the night: Magic, Manifestation, and Rebirth!

Michael's 3 favorite animals, self and band not included.. are the Pink Elephant, the Unicorn, and the Phoenix. One of her life goals is to make enough profits with CR to open a wild life preserve for protecting these endangered species. In light of this vision, these next two performances on Fox and at Lamberts are centered around bringing awareness to the world about these great, mystical and magical animals. There is much to be learned about the rare winged creatures who immerse themselves in fire and transform into their magnitude from a small ordinary bird to a Phoenix. A common misconception people have is that their feathers are red and yellow, resembling fire. On the contrary, the Phoenix rises out of the fire reborn of ash and spirit. Its spread is that of spring, greens, turquoise, and purple with a shiny gold aura! To come learn more about the Phoenix and Pink Elephants... please join us at Lamberts Sat. Feb. 6th in your most embellished greens!! Those supporting the awareness of the Unicorn who is purple and cream, sit in fields of green that the Phoenix brings!

Creatures welcome back from tour, Fifth Nation (going on at 11:30pm)! We are always grateful to be sharing the stage with these two! Come early to get your nook of the room and don't forget to look fabulous so everyone knows you're a part of the Phoenix Preserve!

Photojojo!PS. Speaking of capturing hidden magic... Michael's been featured in the (Wall St. Journal acclaimed) photo projects book- PHOTOJOJO! Photographed by co-author Kelly Jensen, the Creature's picture appears with tips on how to make a hidden spy camera and other cool arts and crafts that can be done with a photograph! This book is absolutely the type of project we support and are thrilled to have been involved in! Get a copy at most bookstores nation-wide or online. See if you can find the creature's bum on her pink scooter.

Thanks to all of you who support and love us through our many transformations. Sponsor Pink Elephants, seriously we are looking for sponsors!


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

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2009-11-12

Creatures on Parade

Halloween CreaturesHello 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!


standing wave credit - Collin Mel (flickr)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!

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2009-06-06

A Deeper Understanding

Michael Scott Parker and Creature Rock performing at the Austin International Youth Hostel

Creature Rock is the artistic side of the music community. Since arriving in Austin 8 months ago, we have only scratched the surface of Austin's resources. With a vision to cultivate creative collaboration across all media - including dance, videography, fashion design, performance art, and of course, MUSIC, Creature Rock sings to give a voice of self expression to fans and creators alike!

That is why it has been such a huge honor have been a part of the Media Arts and Literacy Festival this past week! We had so much fun performing on all the different stages in Austin and never once repeated a song! And the preparations and community building projects that led up to the event were just as rewarding as the performances themselves.

Michael Scott Parker and Creature Rock performing at the Green Muse in AustinThe MALI Festival was filled with incredible, top-notch filmmakers, poets, and musicians from all over the continent; performers and directors from Seattle, New York, Canada, Arkansas, New Orleans, and California graced the stages for 4 solid days. The opportunity to meet and listen to these amazing women in the arts was a great learning experience for us.

Michael Scott Parker won the 2009 MALI Community Choice AwardThe pool of talent assembled was unbelievable! Which made it even more humbling when Michael and her rotating cast of performers in Creature Rock took home the Community Choice Award!!!! Core Creatures very deserving to share this awesome accolade include Michael's brilliant stick smith- James "Ichabod" Harwood* the fearless dancing comet- Emily Boykin*, at the Austin International Youth Hostel with celestial choreography, Jessica Gaby, and at the Long Center caressing the upright bass, Mr. Scott Yates! Our vision of a Creature Community is really manifesting. And it's really exciting to get billed with other Austin based bands, including Framing Strangers, One Eyed Doll, Patrice Pike and Joanna Barbera. We are definitely looking forward to rocking with these ladies again.

But now the band is going back to the Pink Elephant Studio to lay down the second half of the upcoming album The Creature Sessions. Michael Scott Parker and Creature Rock play at the Long Center in AustinMichael is organizing her evocative imagination. Album art intertwined with her musical rhapsodies and preparations for showcasing its release!!

We're currently looking around for interested collaborators to shoot music videos for the Creature Sessions, so if you know anyone in Austin who's looking for a creative project, let us know!

We have two new Creature stickers for beautifying surfaces everywhere. Both are available here!

Cassette Creature StickerCreature Rock sticker




Thanks to all of you, generous community! We are making constellations.

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2009-05-24

Michael on the Radio

KOOP 91.7 Austin, TXCreature Rock Week!!!!

TOMORROW, May 25th, tune in to KOOP 91.7FM, at 11am Central Time, to hear Michael Scott Parker do an in-studio interview and performance on "What's a girl to do?", a free-form Women's Music radio show in Austin, hosted by Lisa Schneider. Getting you ready for the hottest week of women in the arts, at the M.A.L.I. Women's Film and Performance Arts Festival! You can listen online to a LIVE STREAM!

The Creature Community CanvasMichael and crew hosted an informal get-together at the South Congress St. bat bridge, where roughly 1 million mexican freetail bats dwell. At dusk each day, they emerge from underneath the bridge, and pour out into the Austin sky, doing the community the invaluable job of lowering the mosquito population. They consumed and we created!

Michael performed a enticing acoustic set with upright bassist Scott Yates at sunset while locals contributed to the Creature Community Canvas and enjoyed Michael's home baked brownies. Dottii and her apprentice seamstresses from Sudan and the Congo, shared creature creations and passed out free CDs to an appreciative audience! Come see Creature Rock on Friday,May 29th at the Green Muse for a rocking 10am brunch and make your addition to her canvas. It will be there!

Michael Scott Parker with bassist Scott YatesCreative Creature recently has made a connection with bassist Scott Yates, and is so pleased to have have him in her talent bank! And talented, he is! Scott will be gracing the stage with Michael and her time keeper, James, at the Long Center Performance on Saturday, May 30th, for the M.A.L.I Festival!! Don't miss this show!

And don't forget Thursday, May 28th, opening night of the M.A.L.I. Festival, at the Austin International Youth Hostel. Michael has her two wonderful dancers, who have done a phenomenal interpretation of Michael's music into movement. Emily Boykin, our stellar body and woman of vision, dances all three unique shows next week! But the Thursday show is a special treat, with Jessica Gaby, the dancer of synchronous and curious coincidence, accompanying Emily, dancing their co-choreographed elixir to Michael's 9 and a half minute Rhapsody, "Live to Sing". Beautifully Brilliant!

It's been a blessed and wonderful month of connection and creation! Hope to see you all, out at the shows of our joyful labors. May you execute your labors this day from the just place of your holy spirit.

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