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The Cool Cloud Of Okayness out now on @orindalrecords and @sweet_dreams_press ❤️Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. 🍉

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Thank you to everyone who came out this weekend for Poetry in the Grove, @bobbakermarionettes, or @porchfestla
To learn more about whats coming up next & how you can support @barnsdallpark sign up for our newsletter.
We’re also asking you to please vote YES on or before November 3rd on ballot measure PRK, which will increase funding for public parks across LA. Thank you and we’ll see you on the hill soon 🌳

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This week’s schedule 💫

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time is slippery! we haven’t gathered with our friend @tarajaneoneil since meeting atop the beloved @zorthianranch in 2022, but in the years before and since her spirit has offered us a soundtrack to inhabit and grow our lives within and alongside. a trellis of memories for the fruits of our labor, the vines of our lives stretching in sound ever towards the sky.

this evening at 5p we gather atop olive hill, on the lawn of @hollyhockhouse, for a sharing of song from TJO and a loving offering to the tapestry that is this city.

free / donation-based, gates at 4:30p, and pls leave the pups and lawn chairs at home for this one (or set up within earshot on the barnsdall lawn). there are stickers for anyone who bikes to the big gig in the sky and we can’t wait to see you here v soon.

ty @hollyhockhouse @porchfestla & the la department of cultural affairs for having us join you today! posters with more info hidden between photos or check our website.

📸s from zorthian ranch by @adam_pracher featuring many of your adorable furry friends

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I'm really pleased with the whole package of this musical document. Thanks so much to Steven at @aum.fidelity for wanting to give this music new life, and for encouraging using my landscape photos and liner notes. It all feels so personal, so to have that support and trust means a lot.
I also agree with his thoughts that this be a CD release; the format works so well for quiet, acoustic, low-end rich music. And thanks to @tdngvna for the lettering and co-design with Steven.

For those curious, the music is a fairly witchy mixture of original pieces and arrangements of traditional songs, primarily featuring the bowed double bass, with beautiful musical contributions from @juliaholter and @tarajaneoneil.

You can get copies either through my Bandcamp page (link in bio) or through Aum Fidelity directly. Or you could come to my How I Play "Basscraft" performance and spiel at @synthiastudio in Manhattan on Thursday, 10/22 and buy one in person. More solo shows to be announced soon.

Blessed be 🖤

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SUNDAY, OCT. 18! Porchfest LA returns to Barnsdall Art Park with performances throughout the day!

Puppets in the Park “Hallowe’en Spooktacular!” shows begin at 9:30 & 11 am. Noon–5 pm, enjoy live music on the porches at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Barnsdall Gallery Theatre. At 4:30 pm for sunset, head over to the Hollyhock House lawn for “Tara Jane O’Neil: Alive at Hollyhock House” in partnership with Living Earth.

In gifting Barnsdall Art Park to the City of LA 100 years ago, Aline Barnsdall envisioned a vibrant space for the arts and performance. Just as Barnsdall intended, “keep my gardens always open to the public—that this sightly spot may be available to those lovers of the beautiful who come here to view sunsets, dawn on the mountains, and other spectacles of nature, visible in few other places in the heart of the city.” Join us here for a day of music, community, and spectacles of nature seen from LA’s only UNESCO World Heritage site!

This gathering is free & all ages. Please plan to arrive early, bring water to stay hydrated, and a blanket to sit on. For Tara Jane O’Neil’s show, capacity is limited, and we ask that on the Hollyhock House lawn there be no dogs or chairs/outdoor furniture. If those are essential needs (we understand), then you’re welcome to have both out on the Barnsdall Art Park great lawn, where you’ll still be able to listen and watch!

📸: @pauljcozzi

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Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got a little bit of everything happening @barnsdallpark

Saturday at 1 PM Poets in the Grove, presented by @lamagbarnsdall

Sunday 9:30 & 11 AM @hollyhockhouse & @bobbakermarionettes presents Puppets in the Park

Sunday from 12 PM on @porchfestla takes over the park

Sunday at 4:30 PM Close out the weekend with @livingearth.la & @hollyhockhouse presents @tarajaneoneil on the West Lawn

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No Wave was a movement of refusal—a refusal to conform—that radiated ever-outwards from its center in New York during the late-1970s and early-1980s to numberless instances of radical experimentation across mediums. It was a movement that covered a short period of time, but whose impact is legendary. In the decades since, the story of the crucial and revolutionary role played by the movement’s women was not told; @adelebertei changed this with her book NO NEW YORK earlier this year, and the event she directed at the Getty (@gettymuseum; Sarah Cooper (@sarahannecooper)) on Sunday, A MOVEABLE FEAST OF NO.

Thank you, Adele, for bringing together this veritable feast of talented and inspiring women to carry forward the voices of the women of No Wave.

Featured were performances by Julia Heyward (@dukaheyward), Felice Rosser (@felice_rosser), Eszter Balint (@eszter.balint), Zoe Hansen (@thez0e), Tammy Faye Starlight as Nico (@tammyfayestarlite) (accompanied by Tara Jane O’Neil (@tarajaneoneil)), Adele’s group Mothers in the House (MITH) with Adee Roberson (@adeeroberson) and Anna Luisa Petrisko (@annaluisapetrisko), and Julianna Barwick (@juliannabarwick) in collaboration with Ikue Mori of DNA.

Headlining the evening were the Bush Tetras (@bushtetras, @patplace1, @sleycynthia, @felice_rosser, and Clem Waldmann).

And, of course, special attention is due to the Maria Schneider Guitar Army, a group of women dressed in nun’s habits reclaimed as “sonic armor” and playing in honor of all women silenced and repressed, our guitars in the modes of Hildegard von Bingen. My fellow Sisters of Perpetual Defiance were: Sarah Register (@sarahregister), Erica Dawn Lyle (@kyaniteeye), Tara Jane O’Neil (@tarajaneoneil), Elaine Carey (@lainecarey), Kai Schaffer (@goodyenta), Sylvia Black (@sylviablackmusic / @sylvia_sees), Eszter Balint (@eszter.balint), Lisa Sonoda (@lisasonoda), and Cheryl Cleary (@cheryllynncleary). Led by our Mother Superior, Adele Bertei.

Slide 1: 📸 by Evelyn McDonnell (@msladyevelyn)
Slide 15: Yours truly (with @sarahregister!) 📸 by my pal Eric Erlandson (@ericerlandson)

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@adelebertei A Moveable Feast of No at @gettymuseum was everything!!!!! Nothing like women honoring women 🏆 Forever changed being sisters of perpetual defiance in the Maria Schneider Guitar Army. And overjoyed to join @bushtetras for their encore of Too Many Creeps!!!! What a day. Props to the many women who shaped and continue to carry No Wave 🎸

Go read Adele’s 2026 book No New York a memoir of No Wave and the Women who shaped the scene @beaconpress!! And VOTE for positive change ✔️

1: Polaroid taken by @sarahregister
2, 6 & 7: @abstractdepressionism
Vid reposts from @lainecarey & @ericerlandson 🙏

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“this is what it means to be an adventurer in our day: to give up creature comforts of the mind, to realize possibilities of imagination. because everything around us says no you cannot do this, you cannot live without that, nothing is useful unless it’s in service to money, to gain, to stability. the adventurer gives in to tides of chaos, trusts the world to support her – and in doing so turns her back on the fear and obedience she has been taught. she rejects the indoctrination of impossibility. my adventure is a struggle for freedom.” —hib and kika, off the map
 as leaves from black walnut return to soil and the harvest moon wanes, we sense that the wheel is turning. a quest(ion) for us all is what will we devote ourselves towards this season? what are we carrying with us for nourishment, what lessons are left to compost, and how does this support our adventure in the struggle against authoritarianism and subjugation both at home and abroad.

this month is one constant expression of care. we close this year’s collaborations with the storrier stearns japanese garden, return to a historic amphitheater for a concert that has been six months in the making, hold multiple site specific commissions with our wild up family, share an evening alongside one of la’s most historic homes, honor a garden that has been a loving home to us for years, and hike by moonlight to learn and love on our local bioregion.

each moment is an ecosystem and thank you for exploring & reconnecting & reimagining a better world with us.

all power to the imagination ❤️‍🔥

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Tara Jane O’Neil + Jmy James Kidd with MA Tiesenga will open for Tyondai Braxton on October 22nd.

Tyondai Braxton returns with Splayed Werks, his fifth album and first full-length release since 2018’s Telekinesis. Spanning 70+ minutes of electronics and sound design, the record brings together works composed between 2018–2025 into a fluid, expansive whole - moving between rhythm and ambience, organic textures and synthetic noise, precision and play.

Across a career spanning more than two decades, Braxton has co-founded Battles, performed with Philip Glass, composed for Bang on a Can All-Stars, Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Brooklyn Rider and Yarn/Wire, and presented his HIVE project at the Guggenheim, Sydney Opera House and Big Ears Festival.

Since 2012, Tara Jane O’Neil and Jmy James Kidd have explored dynamic somatic listening scores through their ongoing Body and Bass project, weaving music, dance, intention and receptivity. Joined by MA Tiesenga, they open the evening.

🎟️ https://link.dice.fm/Tyondai-Braxton-Zebulon-Oct-22

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Tara Jane O’Neil-Sirena 7”. K. 2012. b/w Rainbow Connection. #tarajaneoneil #krecords #7inch #vinylcommunity #recordcollection

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