Upcoming On OCTAVES Music: Release of “Electric Echoes” Tech Opera Album

Out Friday May 17th is the finale movement of the Electric Echoes cosmic tech opera, and then May 24th, the full remastered album, a six movement piece for orchestral ensemble and a chorus of character singers: Mvt. 1: The Digital Overture 2: Aria Of The Cosmos 3: Dialogue Of The Stars 4: We Are The

OCTAVES Music Update: Electric Echoes Movement 3 — Dialogue Of The Stars

This next upcoming movement in the serial cosmic tech opera is “Dialogue Of The Stars” featuring a 6 vocal parts or characters and string quintet that includes double bass. In preparing the score for release with the final album, the electronic percussion could substituted with more traditional orchestral instruments. And I enjoy releasing it this

Studio Multimedia Update + New Gallery Store

First of all, here’s the new gallery store, with a group of new pieces – including “Palm Husk Silhouettes” seen above – in the “Tropic Modern” collection: STUDIO SHANGRI-LA ON SHOPIFY This is in addition to linked partner stores on the Shop page. The store is also synced with my Instagram where there will be

Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update

FIrst up in the art department, here are a few new nature portraits, thanks to the tropical South Beach Miami flora. They are all three silhouettes for a dramatic modern effect, and available on TurningArt and Saatchi Art in multiple formats. Next is a throwback to 2018, a series of fifty original 18”x24” charcoal drawings called

Featured Artwork: “Fabricate::Recreate” 7’x3’ Mixed Media

”Fabricate::Recreate” is a large mixed media on deep canvas that incorporates recycled fabrics and is covered in layers with acrylics, mica and water based spray paint. It took me a few months to complete. The theme is the ongoing process of personal and cosmic transformation or fabrication of “prima materia,” the primordial starting material. It

OCTAVES Music Label Update: Electric Echoes — Aria Of The Cosmos & More

In what’s turning out to be a opera series, the Electric Echoes first movement of Act I, “The Digital Overture” is out now on Apple Music and more. And the next upcoming movement is called “Aria Of The Cosmos.” The overall tone and plot of the ‘tech opera’ thus far is epic, cosmic and mythological,

OCTAVES Music Explores Tech Opera With “Electric Echoes”

Among ongoing and upcoming projects, “Digital Echoes” is an electroacoustic exploration of how humans interact with accelerating tech and reintegrating nature, as part of the “fundamental” electric field. It promises to have a lot of synth, melody, drama and even humor. That would make it in a way a combination of ‘Grand Opera’ and ‘Opera

Studio Shangri-La Featured Enviro Art: “Guardians”

Studio Shangri-La • Guardians :: The feeling of this photo piece is that nature made us & nature is making us come together. Also influenced by respect for animals & their sentience & intelligence, an important issue featured in latest Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. These are crows mid flight in Somerville, MA. See also

New Mixed Media + New Music: “Spirit” Glass + LEDs & “A Human’s World”

Large mixed media on heavy upcycled glass with paint, multicolor multimodal LEDs that are also sound sensitive. See gallery below for prayer text. Inspired by the unity of spirituality & science. See previous posts on this main page for further detail and Art Shops page for purchase.

Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media Painting

DRIP Another original mixed media 5’X3’ made of gesso’s, acrylics and water based spray paint, as well as acrylic paint pots. Inspired by NBA/WNBA runways, international fashion, creativity & imagination, self expression, the art of life, cycles of rebirth within life. fabricate::recreate This is 6 ft x 3 ft mixed media on canvas, with recycled

Mixed Media In Process: “Spirit” Upcycled Glass w/ LEDs

“Spirit” is a large up-cycled glass piece that’s in process now. It features the text of a prayer, the fingerprint and central S, and of course the multicolor LEDs, so far. This is the modified prayer text based on the candle: Come Holy Spirit and reveal to my soul, body and mind the mysteries of

Drip: Studio Shangri-La Featured Mixed Media

“Drip” is the latest 5 ft x 3 ft mixed media by Studio Shangri-La and is now on display at Bogosplit, Copley Place in Boston’s Back Bay. This painting is inspired by basketball and international fashion, and is about the facets of self expression, the art of life and cycles rebirth within life, and the

Studio Shangri-La ‘Hi Tech Botanical’ Feature: Arrowroot / Canna Lily

Continuing the hi tech botanical series, as plants are routinely so, just in a different way and so sophisticated there is much yet to learn. They’ve been evolving far longer in their realm! Canna Lily / Arrowroot has a number of edible and medicinal uses, the most common of which is the root being used

Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Flower Fusion Reactor Core

The latest in a brightly colored series is “Flower Fusion Reactor Core” inspired by the power & energy of nature, as well as the new frontiers in technology, often best informed and influenced by earth sciences. Really, it all seems like earth or cosmic sciences split into subcategories! Anyway, this exuberant piece is made of

Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media

The latest experimentation is with color block or color field style, inspired by the prominent painter Rothko. expander, named for the op art sort of shape here, concept of the broad color spectrum and dimensional universe, and also the chakras, the energetics centers, or loci of the body. The affect was achieved with an open

Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Urban Wildflower Variations

Happy to present this fresh mini-series for June. The main featured flower here is the Purple Crown or Securigaria, a wild flower that prevents erosion. Here it’s mixed in with other grasses, as they do naturally, and photographed in an urban environment in which they can grow in their wild beauty. The most obvious clear

Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media @ Bogosplit, Copley Place

It’s great to be able to partner with Bogosplit at both Assembly Row and now Copley Place for this mixed media feature. On display and for sale are “fabricate::recreate” and “Alchemy Sun.” fabricate::recreate is a tribute to the unending process and potential of creation, from the cosmic – as this has a stellar/lunar appearance –

Studio Shangri-La Pop Art Feature: “Floating Hibiscus”

Studio Shangri-La • Floating Hibiscus • The foundation of everything is supreme beauty. The material is the spiritual & the spiritual is the material. There is more than meets the eye. Looking beyond the surface into the bioelectric realm, of a flower for instance, reveals its complex energy systems that inspire human technology. The mundane

Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Hi Tech Botanical As ‘Religious Art’

Studio Shangri-La • Deep Tropic • windows and panels. Earth is the church — These are made to look like stained glass windows and panels, making use of beautiful symmetry & asymmetry, and making ‘religious art’ of nature, because we come from nature. One thing I find interesting about the process – When working with

Studio Shangri-La Art Of The Day: Tricolor Lupine Panel, sublimation on metal

Today’s feature is new hi-tech botanical and especially exuberant for summer. This is made of a few photos of lupines and is another biosynergy-inspired layout. Available Direct & in multiple formats + gear on: Saatchi Art TurningArt Society6

Star Core I & II by Studio Shangri-La

Conceptual abstract photography on the expression of light / photons, for me a form of reverence. This is duo is also formed from light reflections on metal. The abstraction imagines thermonuclear fusion, awesome cosmic power, and imagining stars as vast data transmission centers, since light carries information. I’m also inspired by my ongoing studies both