1) Sh… Read Full Bio ↴There are more than one artist who go by the name "Meow Meow."
1) Shortwave radio squeals, Beatles-esque tape loops and healthy doses of analog knob-twiddling all underscore the pure-sugar pop tones of Snow Gas Bones. Meow Meow exists somewhere between Brill Building tradition and grandpa's pre-war 78 rpms played with a broken stylus. With hypnotic visual projections, all members sharing vocal duties and swapping instruments, they've brought their kaleidoscopic live shows up the west coast, down to SXSW and soon to the UK and Japan.
2) Named top ten “Best of Cabaret ” by Time Out New York, “cabaret diva of the highest order” by the New York Post and “A phenomenon” by the Australian press, the “Post -post- modern cabaret diva” Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and performance art exotica.
She’s won numerous Australian Green Room Awards and the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art award. Her solo programme has been curated by David Bowie for his NY High Line Festival (alongside Laurie Anderson, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire and Ricky Gervais), and by Pina Bausch for her legendary dance-theatre festival 08 (alongside Baryshnikov, Sylvie Guillem, de Keersmaker and Paris Opera). The Sydney Opera House has presented several seasons of her works: “Beyond Glamour” and “Meow to the World: Crisis is Born”, and with Malthouse Theatre commissioned her full-length original music theatre piece VAMP! (with composer Iain Grandage). Sydney Festival and NY’s Performance Space122 have curated her piece “Insert the name of the Person You Love” – an ongoing work on the time it takes to fall in love - in collaboration with scientists and psychologists from Rutgers, Stonybrook and Oregon State Universities. Her concerts for the Carnegie Hall “Berlin in Lights” series at Neue Galerie NY have had sell-out performances, she has had extended seasons at the home of German cabaret, Bar Jeder Vernunft, Berlin.
In collaborations she has worked with John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig, Shortbus), Rodney Fisher, John Jesurun, Lance Horne, Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), Iain Grandage, toured the US with Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls, and with Pink Martini’s Thomas M Lauderdale has written and recorded the album “Here Kitty Kitty…The Lost Sessions” due for release in 09. She is a regular guest in the Olivier Award winning La Clique on the West End, and with the Weimar NY collective in NYC (with such performers as Justin Bond of Kiki and Herb, Penny Arcade, Taylor Mac and Julie Atlas Muz).
Meow has also performed in venues as diverse as SF MoMA, Sydney Opera House, Joe's Pub NYC ( her home in NYC), Highline Ballroom NYC, Hiro Ballroom NYC, The Neuberger Museum, American Repertory Theatre, Boston Orpheum, The Glamour Room Shanghai, the Berlin Philharmonic, Famous Spiegeltents globally, Darcelle XV, London's West End and numerous international arts festivals including Time Based Arts (US), Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Brisbane, Darwin, Queensland Music Festival, New Zealand, Braga Portugal and Festival Estuaire, France.
Meow has recorded for WDR, RBB (Germany), ABC (Australia), Radio France and Sonic Arts (UK), and embarks next on a return season of “Wunderschön”, the Schoenberg Ensemble’s reworking of Schubert and Schumann with the Australian National Academy of Music ensemble, and a solo season in the US for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Ringling International Arts Festival.
3) Raggacore/Breakcore producer from the Netherlands. More info on www.meowmeow.nl and www.soundcloud.com/meowdx. Has released on Sociopath Recordings and Ketacore Records.
Nature Is a Machine
Meow Meow Lyrics
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Signs of progress started to show
Now the mini-marts replace the farms
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
See the world as zeros and ones
Every chirp you hear from birds are clearly
Calculated
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Tender circuitry pulled apart
Nothing hurts quite like the heart
So we're better off just shutting off
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
She is sleeping in the backyard
The feeling's gone again in my arm
And it still remains a delicate
Conversation
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
The lyrics of Meow Meow’s song “Nature Is a Machine” express a deep concern about the rapid advancement of technology and its impact on nature. The song urges listeners to contemplate how we have forgotten to show affection towards our planet and the animals that reside on it. The opening lines of the song express the beginning of progress, which has now led us to replace farms with mini-marts. The repetition of “whoa-oh-oh-oh” in between lines adds to the overall melancholy tone of the song, painting a picture of the helplessness felt when watching the world change in such a way.
The second verse takes on a darker tone, describing the world as “zeros and ones,” implying that everything has become purely mathematical and mechanical. The line “forgotten how to show affection” could arguably be interpreted as a reference to how technology has affected our relationships with each other. The chirping of birds, which is usually seen as a beautiful harmony of nature, is described as “calculated,” suggesting that even nature has been reduced to something programmed and robotic. The subsequent lines in this verse speak on the hurt felt by a broken heart but suggest that the solution is to shut everything off. The repetition of “whoa-oh-oh-oh” at the end of the verse again adds to the feeling of helplessness.
Line by Line Meaning
Once upon a time long ago
In the distant past, before the present time
Signs of progress started to show
Changes indicating development and growth began to occur
Now the mini-marts replace the farms
Supermarkets have taken over from small-scale agricultural businesses
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Expressing a moment of awe or surprise
See the world as zeros and ones
Perceiving everything in black and white, like a computer
Forgotten how to show affection
No longer demonstrating love or warmth towards others
Every chirp you hear from birds are clearly Calculated
Even natural sounds like bird songs seem predetermined and artificial
Tender circuitry pulled apart
Delicate wiring or connections being torn apart, causing pain
Nothing hurts quite like the heart
Emotional suffering can cause the most profound pain
So we're better off just shutting off
Perhaps it's best to disconnect and stop participating in the techno-obsessed world
She is sleeping in the backyard
Somebody is resting outside the house
The feeling's gone again in my arm
The sensation of connection or love has disappeared from a limb or body part
And it still remains a delicate Conversation
Talking about these issues is still difficult and precarious
Contributed by Molly J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.