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- 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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CR 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!

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!

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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!

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Prepare to be Rocked

Hello beautiful people! Pack your tents and sunscreen, because...

Creature Rock will be performing LIVE at the
Art Outside Festival in Rockdale, TX,
(APACHE PASS)

on the Variety Stage
Friday, October 9th
6-7PM!

Art Outside is rapidly becoming the premier arts and music festival in central Texas. The lineup of musicians and artists in attendance at this event is INCREDIBLE. If you are into creative art rock, which you are if you're reading this, then you need to come see us.

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. But most importantly, your very favorite Creature and a set list of brand new tunes!!! Oh my god, oh my god.....

Tickets are now available online! Artoutside.org

Please get your ticket and come early to get your camping spot.

The Creature will have a table set up with new merchandise throughout the festival. You will most likely see her on her stilts off stage! You can't miss her even in the largest of crowds! Make sure to go say hello, she wants to greet you all personally!

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A Deeper Understanding

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.

The 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.

The 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 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!

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

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Creative Creature Community

Vision is a powerful tool. A great musician once told Michael, "If you can visualize your fingers playing the song, it is more effective than practicing hours and hours a day." The more we can imagine and visualize, the greater our accomplishments can be. As a visionary, Michael "sees" how she wants to be involved and ways she can connect and grow. The bigger the community you have, the more vision you can create!

As you know, we have been sharing in a greater mission by cultivating a mind state of sustainability, with our sisters in the arts, for the M.A.L.I. Festival. The festival catalyzed opportunities to connect with the Austin community. We've pulled together resources with the artists at GAGA, repurposed materials in a creative way, making our show attire from donations, got the kids involved with the process of being in a creative community, making band merchandise and learning music with Michael.

The GAGA GALA was a special event. Michael contributed her time and creativity to appreciative participants, who brought her vision into reality.. the construction of her performance materials with the talents of her fans.

This Thursday, May 21, South Congress St. Bridge, 7PM - We are having one final public appearance before the MALI Festival. We'll be hanging out together underneath the South Congress Bridge, with the Austin Bat Colony. Yes, real bats! They were kind enough to pose for our band poster. We'll be jamming, selling festival tickets, and painting together on the Creature Community Canvas! Come out and paint at sunset with the band. They might give you some cake.

And tomorrow, tune in to KOOP 91.7FM, at 11am to hear another local artist, Joanna Barbera and the director of the M.A.L.I Festival, P.O.W., do an in-studio interview on "What's a girl to do?"

And tune in again on May 25th, 11am for Michael's on-air appearance!! P.O.W. and Michael share their mission and their vision and set the stage for the Women's Film and performance Arts Festival, just 10 days away!!

Infinite thanks go out to our many collaborators/contributors who are essential to Creature Rock-

The short list includes James Harwood, Mikey McKevitt, Emily Boykin, Jessica Gaby, Lisa Stevens, and Albert and the Enchanted Forest. You can read about these and other singular creatures on the collaborators page recently updated at creaturerock.com.

Creature Vocabulary: Explicate your lexicon!

explicate- to expand or clarify.
lexicon- collection or inventory of words or a vocabulary. Like Michael's lexicon of her star language, Euthinethany.

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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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The Erudite Creature

Greetings fellow creatures,

It's turning into a habit of love - Creature Rock will be performing again at Jovita's on South 1st. in South Austin, on Tuesday, Jan 6 at 6:30PM! Come witness the cutting edge of art rock research performed live, while you sip a margarita.

lf you are not aware, 2009 has been declared (by Michael) to be the "Year of the Creature"... A year where imagination defies the constraints of time. Modern humans can reasonably expect 80 or so years, total, to explore what we think to be a short linear line in existence.

General relativity says, when traveling very close to the speed of light - you experience a distortion in time. Your experience of time stays the same yet you see a fast forwarded version of the rest of the universe. A second situation is more interesting, and involves the mysterious gravitational force: the closer you are to mass, the slower time moves. One could imagine living on the Earth, road tripping in outer space, having numerous experiences, and then returning, with only minutes having elapsed on Earth. It's a little more complicated than that, but bear with us.

The creative process is like gravitational time dilation ~ a moment is stretched out.... to fully experience and explore it, you must involve your inner creature and forget the idea of time. You return with new insight and vision and it makes sense to write it into your 150 year homework. I do hope you are working on your 150 year life plan, but now you have the understanding that time is not linear! At least that's Michael's philosophy. If you've ever experienced slipping into the gap, you know that time dilation is real and within human control!

Michael has been recently exploring the relationship between art and science, and has committed to studying her peers in the the papers of Leonardo Music Journal. One of her New Year's resolutions is to become involved with the musicians who write and create in this research and to one day be published in the MIT academic journals herself. God knows she's written enough articles!! The Leonardo Music Journal documents other explorers' paths through the creative process, and is bedside reading for creatures everywhere..... Did you know that David Byrne is published?

PS - See you on Tuesday! This is the last show before Michael leaves for New Orleans.

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Preparation and Improvisation

Hello Beautiful Beings,

Call up a friend and invite them for a stellar hour of Creature Rock tomorrow, Saturday, December 20, from 6-7 PM at Jovita's on South 1st St., in South Austin.

Michael Creature and her drumming architect ~Mr. James Harwood~ are performing together for the first time! The two debut piano music from the Creature Sessions, and Naked favorites. Oh God, don't miss it!

Speaking of God... Over the past few weeks, two concepts have been cross-pollinating the Pink Elephant Studio - preparation and improvisation. And how a mortal summons these powers into the awareness of spirit in service to the Great Consciousness of the human expression.

The practice of music is rooted in self expression. Yet we slow down our tempo and put our intention into a present state that prepares us for the moment when we share and improv with our audiences.

We practice opening the subconscious to channel our spirit through our art in a way that can be achieved again and again. When confronted with the question of summoning motivation, a simple solution to understand, is that practice requires no motivation! It is only a commitment to time. When you commit to practicing something daily, anything at all, there is awakening within us that allows the spirit to come through our intention and into form. It is the spirit that motivates and animates the human expression.

If that isn't good enough, here is your Creature Homework - make a 150 year plan for your life. Medical science is improving, after all! How might you be more or less motivated? Would it alter your priorities?

Turn someone you love on to the gift of Creature News. Sign them up HERE. And don't forget that CDs are still in style, especially ours since they are full of great visual art-pick one up at Waterloo or End of an Ear, or order one from cdbaby, amazon, or creature rock.

Our new stickers will be at the show! The tuning key you see hanging from the easel is from Michael's first guitar.

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Wow wow wow wow - Unbelievable!!!

Beautiful Beings!

A departure from the solar system

Expand with me for a minute. This is a photo of Earth from the edge of the solar system.

(Earth is the wee tiny blue dot in the middle of the brightest ray on the right.)

We live in an inconceivably large universe, and our entire world is but a pixel in an e-mail in the mind of God.

When we broaden our awareness, our consciousness begins to "...sense more than our physical surroundings," as Michael sings. Astronauts have long reported a permanent change in their consciousness when viewing the Earth from orbit, it's called the Overview Effect.

For Michael Creature, this is how songs are born. Incidentally, Michael is not the only minstrel to hear the "serenade from the stars." Click here to listen to an old Steve Miller favorite, but only if you promise to listen to the lyrics...

Speaking of departures and consciousness - unusual as usual - Michael recently picked up a copy of Kate Bush's latest album, Aerial, after her mom commented on their musical similarities. Supposedly when she was 2 years old, Michael was dancing to Kate's music with her mom, herself an eccentric artist. Recently rediscovering Kate's music, Michael has found uncanny and unusual similarities!

The album art of Aerial has images of Pro Tools waveforms mixed together with blackbird images, titled "Soundwave of Blackbird Song" written on the image. Coincidentally, this visual juxtaposition was also a guiding concept during the composition of Michael's song "Blackbird"!

Creature rock is spreading her wings around Austin! Pick up Michael's album Naked at local independent record stores Waterloo records, End of an Ear, and Secret Oktober.

Support the arts!

Michael performed her newest piano song, 'Unusual as Usual' at her last show! Thanks to all who came out to support the Star Child.

The receptivity with which "Creature Sessions" has been coalescing, fatefully brought to Creature Rock James Harwood - a percussive, diabolical mastermind who owns a whole drum throne, but only uses the edge! Michael and James' musical alchemy is stellar... It's like dance and music; were they not meant to be together? James' intelligent approach to rhythmic surrender is launching the album and the band like a crush black velvet drum stick into the stratosphere! The two are currently recording and royally rocking out, click here for a video of the two recording... Stay tuned for upcoming shows with Michael Creature and her new drummer, James!

Departure from the Usual - the sculptures of Joyce DiBona

Joyce DiBona is a woman of powerful imagination and authentic surrender to her art form. Michael was captivated by the artist recently, when given a tour of her studio - a room of bodies, tattooed with cosmic meaning, born from pervasive skill. Joyce shared a video of her artistic process, documenting the 6-month-long creation of a sculpture to be unveiled at the NYC Biennal. The impact of seeing a condensed, personal film strip spanning six months, alongside the finished product, was profound! Check out the sculptures at www.joycedibona.com.

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