                         Michaeyla Adrienna
	       Writer | Vocalist | Actor | Model


Everyone has a lyric, a song, an album that is the anthem that speaks to their rhythm; the heart beat of their life. You wait to hear an artist with that sound that grabs your attention, making you a fan for life-that artist is musical darling Michaeyla Adrienna. She has grace the stage as a hit maker with her debut single, “Song Of My Body” off her debut EP “Wild Flower”. “Song Of My Body” is the perfect blend of beauty and soul with relatable lyrics and beats that make you want to sway, “Song Of My Body” is sure to become DJ’s around the country and abroad favorite track to play.

 Michaeyla Adrienna began her music career as young girl standing in front of mirror with her hairbrush microphone and an imaginary crowd. She grew in to a determined young woman who began performing in pageants and at local community events. Her drive took her to California where she continued to pursue her music career along with modeling and acting. In 2012 She landed roles as an extra on the critically acclaimed television series Homeland and box office hit The Hunger Games.  

She returned to her hometown of Columbia, SC to answer the call of life changes and needs of her family. She continued to use the experiences and lessons life taught her to deliver a stellar performance on her “Wild Flower” EP.  With the sweet soulful tone of Aaliyah and the ethereal feel of Sade’, Michaeyla Adrienna is a rising star who’s shine you will not be able to miss. 


Kristin Chambers moves through American songbook with the easy grace that comes from a lifetime steeped in song. On her new record Unravel Me, the Seattle-based artist glides between luxurious, sweeping ballads cascading with multilayered vocal harmonies, folk-inflected uplifting pop, and bluesy laments to lost love; all tied together with a lilting voice warm as summer sunshine. While each composition stands on its own, together they paint a portrait of a creative spirit striding confidently into the spotlight.       

Chambers honestly cannot remember a time in her life when she wasn’t singing and performing; whether for imaginary friends in her childhood bedroom or sold out crowds at venues across the pacific northwest. “Since I can remember there has always been a song to sing and a story to tell” says Chambers. “From that same time, I always had a journal, and the desire to record my experiences.”

This singing and writing followed Chambers from school and college to the New York City theater scene. Through talent, persistence, and plain ol’ grit Chambers started to make headway, landing both an agent and call-backs for some Broadway production. Then September 11th happened and everything changed. “There was something about the desperation and honesty of that time that got to the root of whether I desired to go on in theater” Chambers tells. “The answer was inevitable no.” She packed her bags and headed home to Seattle.

Recovering, reflecting, and ruminating on art and life, Chambers came to realize that she’d basically been writing original music her whole life, but had never matched the melodies in her head to the musings captured in countless journals. “I wrote my first song before I even knew what the chords were” she laughs, “I had to ask someone!” These days Chambers is coming up one one-hundred-twenty originals, and she writes a song a week.

Chambers career as a recording artist began with the 2010 release of her eponymous debut LP, followed by 2012’s Endless Road EP. Chambers released the ambitious, mature Everything Woman (2014) was followed by her award-winning 2015 release Snow Globe, a mix of five originals and five holiday classics.


While Chambers’ music shifts through a varied palate of moods and tones, as a whole it paints a cohesive portrait of a songwriter who has not only become a master of her craft but is also comfortable wearing that mantle. “I always want people to feel hope when they listen to my music” says Chambers. “I try to write from my authentic self, and I hope that comes through.”  Chambers songs glow with palpable realness, and satisfy in the way only truly honest art can.

I am my own person. I haven't seen anyone or anything like me.
I see bits and pieces of myself in the people that influenced me the most. I have the patience of my mother. I have the craziness of my father. I have the mind of Lourd de Veyra, and the heart of John Lennon.
Somebody once described me as the stupidest and smartest person alive; I didn't know how to take it.
Everything I wear once belonged to someone else with the specific exception of socks and underpants. 
You see this is my dilemma.
The problem with me is that I can never be serious; one can't tell if I'm stating fact or horsing around. Even if I'm asserting my intellect and sharing my knowledge people seem to think that I'm just making it up.
I love my hands; I can do a million and one things with it. They are the hands that fixes and get things done, they create beautiful music.
I am the jack of all trades. I would most likely know a little bit if not more of anything under the sun. When I say anything, I mean ANYTHING.
I want you to put it to the test. Please if you come across me, ask me and you'll see. I will have something to say about it. If I don't know the answer, I will thank you. 
I value relationships, romantic and platonic alike. I am faithful but like any other human being, please don't break my trust.
I think I'm funny.
I see joy in the simplest of things.
Oftentimes you can see me smiling or laughing all of a sudden. You might think I've already gone bonkers but no, I've just recalled something really funny from a movie scene or childhood memory. I have the makings of Will Ferrell.
I am a frustrated rock star.
You'll catch me doing air guitar every now and then. You’ll see my fingers moving as it were striking an imaginary chord or doing solos that I may or may not be able to pull off on a real guitar.
If my life had a soundtrack it will be filled with songs from Incubus, Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay just to mention a few. All of which are as important as the next.
I am a vegan sympathizer, whenever presented with a choice, I'd make sure to eat my greens. My eyes go lazy after 1 am and automatically open up around 7:15 am.
I am allergic to alcohol, and it goes without saying that I’ve never been drunk nor wasted in my life. I got it from my dad who strange enough is with a very strong stature, he used to work as a mechanic and as we know after a long day of manual labor one sure fire way to gulp it down is to have drink.
Being wasted. That is one chapter in my life that is yet to unfold, I still wonder of stories of bar fights, one night stands and celebrations that I hear from friends that happen through such state. But don’t feel bad for me, I don’t feel bad for me. 
I like to allow any and all influence into my world. Cultural or geographic. Political, or emotional. As far as I am concerned, anything is game. I find that large parts of my attitude are observational in the sense that I am merely living as I chose, in whatever form it takes, is the unconscious filter of my experience.

What the heck is the KNOW Talent Agency, anyway? (KNOW = Kreations Nobody Oughta Want) Well, I’ve never made any money doing this, and the only performer is me, and my talent is questionable, so the term Talent Agency is a misnomer. The KNOW Talent Agency is just the cast of imaginary characters that I give credit for performing my songs. I am Mr. Wompy, Roscoe Aardvark, Rufus Leaking and yes, even Buzzy Bottoms. And to answer the question that everyone has asked me, "Have you made any money from your songs?", the answer is, "NO!"

I’ve always loved crazy songs and parodies. Since my teenage years, I’ve dreamed of writing and performing a dumb song, and then hearing it on the radio. So back in the late 80s, I took some of my hard-earned money and invested in a few electronic musical instruments, a 4-track recorder and computer software and started a new hobby. When John-Boy and Billy of WRFX in Charlotte put "A Crazy Bunch" on the air in April 1987, my dream was realized!  (That song isn't here, but it's on my website.)

Recent winners of Vita.mn's Are You Local? Showcase and named one of First Avenue's Best New Bands of 2013, Black Diet is a garage/indie/soul band with a sartorial flair. Indebted to Stax records, they put on shows that look like Baptist church services held at punk houses. Part of a stream of vintage sounding acts coming out of Minneapolis' Pinata Records, they're spitting out sharp, testimonial jams for the masses. 

Standing at 6'5 with a spiky afro, singer/writer Jonathan Tolliver, a soul journeyman raised by a Baptist pastor father and a church singing mother, sticks out like a sore thumb. He rumbles and screeches through songs about abandonment, fear of loss, the devastation of endings. 

They're rounded out by professional burlesque/cabaret singer Mugsy, afrobeat mavens Mitchell Sigurdson and David Tullis, blues rock wailer Sean Schultze, and funk/soul DJ/bassist Garrison Grouse. They form a rhythm unit that's tight and percolating, always ready to fly off the rails if the feel demands. 

The shortest way to the real answer is via the imaginary.

the institute for transacoustic research (german: institut für transakustische forschung, iftaf) was founded in 1998 to define and research transacoustics (german: transakustik). a crucial characteristic of transacoustic research is its interdisciplinary approach; it carries out science by means of art and art by means of science; methods and settings from both areas are combined to arrive at unique lines of connection and division. 

transacoustic research is concerned with the peripheral effects and tangential areas of acoustics, with their borders to other areas of research. these contours and definitional borders are necessarily blurred and vague.

the question of the essence of transacoustics/transakustik is as impossible to answer as the question of art or philosophy's essence. the success, productivity and efficiency of transacoustic research do not depend on finding an answer to this question.

transacoustics/transakustik as such, does not exist; there is only transacoustic research, which constantly circles its imaginary core and thereby arrives at the most diverse results and realizations.

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