WORDS

Many thanks to T. Thorn Coyle for having me as a guest on their podcast Magic, Creativity, and Life: Conversations with Interesting People.

Happy Ring of Fire Eclipse in Libra y'all! Enjoy one of my ring of fire / mandala watercolors in celebration!

Join me I launch the Creative Work Circle!

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!

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.

Singers should be trained to ask themselves firstly: Is this music worthy of my voice?

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…

Supremely cool and strange and beautiful weirdness: live art music from Misha, George and Chris in the enormous and sonorous Silos at Sawyer Yards.

“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

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!’

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…

Notes from a studio collaboration…

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’…

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…’

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