Temporary Transformation Machine

Bio:

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.

What falls away is always. And is near.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

I learn by going where I have to go."

-Theodore Roethke

"I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love."

-Frank O'Hara

"The lion is called the king

Of beasts. Nowadays there are

Almost as many lions

In cages as out of them.

If offered a crown, refuse."

-Kenneth Rexroth

And for those who like to know everything, THE (DREADED THIRD PERSON) BIO:

Myshel is a writer, musican, poet, painter, and occasional actor.

She studied acting at North Carolina School of the Arts and then with Uta Hagen at HB studios in NYC (and graduated from NYU) before moving to Boulder to attend The Naropa University's Jack Keruoac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA program, where she studied with poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldeman, Amiri Baraka, Ed Sanders, and Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey, among many others, and sang the title role in Sanders' opera "Cassandra," performed by torchlight on Flagstaff Mountain.

After graduating from Naropa, Myshel became the singer/songwriter/guitarist for the rock band Space Team Electra. She co-produced two full-length analogue albums, "The Vortex Flower" with Chicago producer Keith Cleversely (Flaming Lips, Spiritualized, Hum) and "The Intergalactic Torch Song" with producer Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash) in San Rafael, CA. The Denver-based band played the SXSW and NXNE festivals and toured throughout the US. See www.spaceteamelectra.net for more info.

As a poet and spoken word artist, Myshel won the slam at the greatly missed Nuyorican in NYC and performed on the main stage at the Lollapalooza festival, and at various events in Los Angeles, Boulder, Denver, London (BBC Electric Proms), Montreal, and Prague.

Myshel plays the tenor 2 part in the Glenn Branca's guitorchestra piece, "Hallucination City, " and has performed with the ensemble at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Sculpture Park in Seattle, and The Roundhouse Theatre in London. As a solo artist she has played the Montreal Pop Festival, two LA and three London gigs with Jont Whittington's traveling Unlit party. She is an intermittent contributing member/policy analyst for LA's new and most mysterious press-conference-only project "Night People," featuring singer/songwriter (and film director) Matthew Buzzell, former Luna guitarist Sean Eden, and formidable percussion, composition and production talent, the very patient Lee Wall.

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Member Since:

September 23, 2006

Members:

Myshel Prasad (Guitars, vox, xylophone, percussion, bowed instruments, etc.)

and

Lee Wall (Producer, Skeletons)

Jamie Lemoine (Producer, St Joan)

Nick Macri (Bass, Intergalactic Clown)

Eric Garant (Music/Producer, Slams Into)

Bill Kunkel-STE (Guitars, Winter Queen; Acoustic Guitar, Original Sin; Guitar and Bass, Trees Bleed Sugar)

Kit Peltzel-STE (Drums, Winter Queen; Keyboard, Trees Bleed Sugar)

Influences:

Maria Callas, Dreyer's 1928 "Joan of Arc," Bill Hicks, cities, Mazzy Star, Karen Carpenter, Shankar, "Star Wars," bees, Sonic Youth, Duane Michaels, Rimbaud, travel, Leonard Cohen, Beatrice Wood, Opal and Kendra Smith, Pomerols and monster Zins, Prem S Prasad, Odilon Redon, Patti and Lenny, Pasolini's "Medea," Amiri Baraka, Rumi, Mogwai, deserts, Sandy Pearlman, Bardo Pond, Francesco Clemente, Scott Petill and snow-snakes, Georges Bataille, Iggy Pop, Van Gogh, Glenn Branca, James Turrell, Spinoza, Jamesons, Jeremy Steward, Chris Hedges, Ghazal, Nico, the refridgerator, Anne Waldeman, "Pyassa," Michel Gondry, My Bloody Valentine, Todd Ayers, Kit Peltzel, Bill Kunkel, and Greg Fowkes, "PI," Lake Isabelle, Aaron Mendez, Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," Rene Girard, "My Dinner With Andre," The Kills, "Gadjo Dilo," Baudrillard, Yoko Ono, Uta Hagen, Modigliani, "The Birth of Tragedy," "Spinal Tap," Artaud, Tolkien, Golijov, The Sex Pistols, Faustus, Diamanda Galas, "Valley of the Dolls," The Oresteia, the Fauves, Surrealism and the Surrealists, "Babette's Feast," Noam Chomsky, "The Matrix," "32," Rene Ricard, Godspeed You Black Emperor, dogs.