Join me I launch the Creative Work Circle!
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I can’t wait to share my new music video and single EARTHSHINE with you all — newsletter folks get early access on Sunday December 3 — so you’ll be hearing from em again, then. And if you’re in Houston, please join me for the music video release party!
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EARTHSHINE, my new music video and single drops December 4 with a release party in Houston on December 9 (deets below!). I’m so excited to share this sneak peek of my beautful music and the video I filmed and then enhanced with the magnificent animation of Kaiber.AI.
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Singers should be trained to ask themselves firstly: Is this music worthy of my voice?
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A quick Thursday note about iconic Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer’s Decalogue—that is, 10 principles of creative work-making. There’s some really yummy ones in his list that I love…
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“Seize a bit of the quicksilver of life, freeze it for all time and turn, in the blaze of creativity, to point at it and cry, ‘Isn’t this good!’ And it was good.” — Bradbury
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Look at this flower! I mean, LOOK AT IT! How does it even exist in our weary world?—strutting its unapologetic stuff, ‘I am beautiful! I dare you to look away from my unabashed glory! You cannot!’
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Here’s a little (edited!) look-back on my year and all the wonders I’m grateful for…so grab a cuppa and come with me on a little creative journey through 2022…
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Notes from a studio collaboration…
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When I was explaining how much I love the movement of revelation or the big reveal— a mentor and friend, the composer James Saunders said that I loved ‘the Flower Moment’…
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Radiant Poison
A New Music Video EP
Misha Penton: composer, soprano, lyrics, films, production
with original contributions from
George Heathco, guitars and Chris Becker, beats
Dropping Friday, February 18
Set in a dreamworld of city and ocean-scapes,
Radiant Poison is an exploration of our ephemeral, delicate bodies
against the sparkling and hidden worlds of natural and urban landscapes.
‘Always the first steps…’
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A Series of Posts About Bodies & Voices...
and words and meaning-making…
A Series of Posts: Thinking About Voices & Bodies
Plus Misha Music Mini Micro-Operas
A Series of Posts: Thinking About Voices & Bodies
Notes from The Vox Lab
A Series of Posts: Thinking About Voices & Bodies
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We speak / We sing / We whisper, shout, gasp, laugh, cry and wail…
We resonate
Voices, Bodies, Sounds…
A little French philosophy & a Misha Music Video Mini
I LOVE WORDS! Fierce is from the Old French fiers ‘fierce, brave, proud’, and from Latin ferus ‘untamed’. Untamed. Yeah!
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