MUSICIAN. ARTIST. GARDENER.
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JOURNAL

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

JOURNAL

EVERY TIME WE MAKE A WORK OF ART WE PUT A DOCUMENT OF IT HERE IN THIS JOURNAL FOR A JAPANESE DOCUMENTARIAN FILM MAKER SO THEY CAN MAKE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THIS ARTIST IN THIS WEBSITE BECAUSE THEN WE CAN GO TO JAPAN, HOPEFULLY NOT SO LATE IN LIFE THAT IS A CRUEL IRONY.  MOST PEOPLE BESIDES JAPANESE PEOPLE EVER GET TO GO TO JAPAN. WE UNDERSTAND, BUT WE GENUINELY WANT TO GO TO SEE THE COUNTRY AND OUR FRIEND NOBU.


 

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. 

 
Michael Musika