MICHAEL MUSIKA
MUSICIAN. ARTIST. GARDENER.
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JOURNAL

MICHAEL MUSIKA'S CHRONOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION OF CREATION THROUGH WRITING, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND PERFORMANCE ON VIDEO.

JOURNAL

This Journal is for a Japanese documentary film maker so that we may have an opportunity to go to Japan.

 
MON OCT 6, 2008 // SPELLS DEMONSTRATION RECORDING EXPERIMENTS

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

I recorded these demos in the fall of 2008.  I was dating Pua at the time, and taking piano and music theory from Jono Kornfeld at the Community Music Center in my neighborhood. I made these demo recordings in my living room, to prepare to make the studio record "Spells" in Hyde Street Studios. Pua was an artist and was creating collages that turned out to help illustrate the album and the novella I wrote to accompany it.  I will include some of those collages here. Also, Jono helped me a lot with the arrangements for the recordings. 

 
The Child Opens the Gate to an Eastern Forest (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
Translating the Bird's Song (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
The Spellbound Traveler Loses All Possession (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
Coyote Recaptures the Stolen Jewell and Returns it into the Sea (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
Young Mother Nature Bewitches the Fools with a Dance of Death (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
A Song is Swallowed by a Fish (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
The House of Love is Discovered Empty (Demo, Oct 6, 2008)
The Light Switches
Michael Musika