Thunder Hag and A_Scissors are collaborating on a show called "Gift of the Magi" to be performers July 4, 2010 at 8:15pm at *Post Records' Fourth Fest.
Gift of the Magi is a tale of doomed love told with marionettes, set to live music by A_Scissors. It follows an attraction that develops between two women from very different worlds as they struggle to overcome their differences and find a happy ending. On one side, there is a very stupid girl whose flighty nature is exposed by the magical moon. On the other, a crocodile is half-transformed by love, but still driven by her animal instincts. Impossibility, anthropomorphism, and a gorgeous electronic score bring the story to life live on stage.
About Thunder Hag
Thunder Hag is the glorious daughter of the sun! Wielding the Thunderstick, an apparatus forged from a leg of Baba Yaga's hut, she weaves the stories that sustain the Kingdom of Lies. Supported by suicidal robots and singing cupcakes, she turns myths inside-out to prophecy with their guts. In these entrails she reads the many futures our lives hold: doomed love, doomed friends, doomed magic, doomed science, and doomed doom. There is no hope. Let's laugh about it while we can. (The alter-ego of Central Florida artist/performer Hannah Miller, Thunder Hag is a mutlimedia project examining the mutability of archetypal characters and relationships through music, puppetry, and performance.)
About A_Scissors
Brian Cunningham, (AKA; A_Scissors), (press kit) is a Florida-based electronic musician, whose compositions and live performances are lush musical tapestries woven from poignant flowing melodies, coalescing rhythms, delicately placed vocal samples, and ambient soundscapes. A_Scissors creates his music with a strong impetus placed on personal nostalgia, child-like themes, & universal harmonies. Avoiding computers for production and using hardware such as synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, and drum machines, A_Scissors translates what he does in the studio effectively into a live setting, creating a stage performance as organic as that of a live band. A_Scissors is influenced by many different artists, including: Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Nathan Fake, and Boards of Canada.
