Reminder: Metaforest Guidebook w/ TJO, Anna Joy Springer, & Rachel ... @ Sat Jun 4 8pm - 9:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Metaforest Guidebook w/ TJO, Anna Joy Springer, & Rachel Carns at Needles and Pens Needles + Pens 3253 16th Street San Francisco, CA oin us at N&P as Anna Joy Springer reads from her book The Vicious Red Relic, Love, with live music made by Tara Jane O'Neil and Rachel Carns. This project, and the CD we made for it, is called "Your Metaforest Guidebook." In "Your Metaforest Guidebook" Tara Jane O'Neil is a wild foley artist, manipulating strings and bows, keys, and bells, and the electric tambourine, while Rachel Carns calls upon her background in classica...l piano and jazz to perform live improvised melodies in eerie and delightful counterpoint to Anna Joy Springer's dramatic readings from her fabulist memoir, The Vicious Red Relic, Love. *Donations for touring artist requested. No one turned away for lack of funds. Artist Bios/info: Rachel Carns is a musician, poet, composer, artist and performer, known for her operatic punk vocals, baroque art-circus organ chops, and distinctive stand-up drumming style. She is a founding member of artpunk metal outfit The Need, sugar pop darlings, Kicking Giant, and stoner sludge duo TWIN (nee The King Cobra). She has collaborated with a grand list of luminaries including Mocket, Two Ton Boa, Miranda July, Wynne Greenwood, Carrie Brownstein, Kathleen Hanna, and the experimental performance art group Cloud Eye Control, and has composed and performed a wide range of original works, including The Transfused, a full-length rock opera. Tara Jane O'Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, poet, composer, producer and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures. She founded the Ecstatic Tambourine Orchestra and has played with the likes of Papa M, Mount Eerie, Ida, Mirah, Michael Hurley, Lori Goldston, and the King Cobra. Anna Joy Springer is the author and illustrator of The Vicious Red Relic, Love (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011). She was a singer and songwriter for Blatz, The Gr'ups, and Cypher in the Snow. She is now at work on a book-length rebus bestiary about punk girls, birds, and the turn of the century. Springer teaches fiction, graphic texts, and experimental writing as an Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. When Sat Jun 4 8pm – 9:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry Bob Roberts - creator

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