The well timed alt rock tribute to exploration is out today & available on Apple Music & more! Check out the lyric video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R3fHtS6Ed8I This is a great example of the lyrics and melody floating from the aether, so it’s meant to be!
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OCTAVES New Music Friday: Artemis Amenti “Sky Over Miami”
In the spirit of Miami Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week, as well as the ubiquitous and hilariously relatable Jon Hamm + Kato video / meme, this escapist dance pop track has some uplifting lyrics and harmonies for the dance floor as well as headphone or home listening. It’s the third song from theContinue reading “OCTAVES New Music Friday: Artemis Amenti “Sky Over Miami””
OCTAVES New Music Friday: Artemis Amenti – Casino + Video & Score
Lyric Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEx_7UZRyxg Today’s new music Friday release is the next track from the upcoming 2026 Artemis Amenti album, and is a cross between alternative pop and trip hop. And it’s about the cosmic casino of life. There’s a lot to keep ‘betting on’ and exploring, including oneself. Life differentiated for a reason,Continue reading “OCTAVES New Music Friday: Artemis Amenti – Casino + Video & Score”
New Publication: Electric Echoes, Movement 1 “Digital Overture” Score
Paperback: Digital / PDF: Buy Paperback & Digital on Amazon The first movement of Electric Echoes: A Cosmic Tech Opera is out now on Studio Shangri-La / OCTAVES Music Publications. This was released last year as an album and even received an ASCAP concert writer’s award. It was composed for the most part by comingContinue reading “New Publication: Electric Echoes, Movement 1 “Digital Overture” Score”
OCTAVES Music Publications: The Changing Skies String Quartet
by Sarah Ikerd (Author) Format: Kindle Edition See all formats and editions Out now on OCTAVES Music Publications is the score and parts for a traditional string quartet of Violin 1, Violin II, Viola and Cello. Each of nature’s changing skies are uniquely and breathtakingly beautiful, from sunny to stormy and from dawn until dusk. The composition isContinue reading “OCTAVES Music Publications: The Changing Skies String Quartet”
Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES
There is a lot of new work this month in May, with more to be posted! This particular group in the slideshow represents an ornate, rococo style of tree canopy photography. The layouts are decidedly baroque. And this is all original photography using various programs for editing. One topic that appears here is the amazingContinue reading “Multimedia Update: Rococo & Deco Geometric Photography + Forthcoming Album On OCTAVES”
Studio Multimedia Update: Multimodal Resonance Therapy, Entrainment, Modulo Art & More
There much to update at this point in early October with OCTAVES music releases, Studio Shangri-La artwork, and publications. Let’s begin with the new sound therapy / medicinal music on Octaves, based on known healing frequencies, with much more to explore in that area. Both “The Lyre Of Light,” with its 7 healing frequencies andContinue reading “Studio Multimedia Update: Multimodal Resonance Therapy, Entrainment, Modulo Art & More”
Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More
The latest studio multimedia starts off with new (and old) additions to the Studio Shangri-La conceptual online photography catalogs – here of course, and also TurningArt and Saatchi Art. The above original with graphic design is “Khepri’s Sunflower,” named for the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph of the beetle, representing bringing something into being or to create.Continue reading “Studio Multimedia Update: Moments With Nature, The 2025 Grammys & More”
The OCTAVES Music Album Release Update
Artemis Amenti Modern Melt 7.26.24 The most recent OCTAVES Music release is material from 2022-2023. And this album has more of a alternative pop flavor. The narrative is very much of the now with the philosophical flower power theme. The cover art is Studio Shangri-La’s “Flower Fusion Reactor Core.” Artemis Amenti Blue Shift Red ShiftContinue reading “The OCTAVES Music Album Release Update”
Studio Shangri-La Multimedia Update: Music, Art & Science
It’s been an fun and exciting multimedia summer so far, and that promises to continue, beginning with the OCTAVES Music release schedule, the continuation of SS publications, upcoming art commissions, plus ongoing research in sustainability, design & innovation. Music =Sarah Ikerd • Electric Echoes: A Cosmic Tech Opera (out now) Sarah Ikerd • The GreatContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Multimedia Update: Music, Art & Science”
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 TheContinue reading “Upcoming On OCTAVES Music: Release of “Electric Echoes” Tech Opera Album”
OCTAVES Music Update: Tech Opera, Deep Techno & Alt Pop
Out just yesterday is the 4th movement of the Electric Echoes cosmic tech opera, “We Are The Tech Of The Tech Of The Tech.” The complete opera will be 9 movements. This movement is about one form of life stemming from the next and being interconnected. Each mythological character in this movement embodies a realm,Continue reading “OCTAVES Music Update: Tech Opera, Deep Techno & Alt Pop”
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 thisContinue reading “OCTAVES Music Update: Electric Echoes Movement 3 — Dialogue Of The Stars”
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 beContinue reading “Studio Multimedia Update + New Gallery Store”
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 calledContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Art & Music Update”
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,Continue reading “OCTAVES Music Label Update: Electric Echoes — Aria Of The Cosmos & More”
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 ‘OperaContinue reading “OCTAVES Music Explores Tech Opera With “Electric Echoes””
OCTAVES Music Label Update + Artist Services
It’s well worth noting that, while some conceptualization and some OCTAVES cover art benefits from AI, the composition and performance is still very much done by a human who loves making music. And the photo you see above is a more traditional one of light, reflecting on water. Given the previous posts about AI —Continue reading “OCTAVES Music Label Update + Artist Services”
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.
OCTAVES New Music Friday: Artemis Amenti — Flight Of Imagination
Out today for New Music Friday is this vocal remix / rework of Starstuff, Artemis Amenti’s “Flight Of Imagination” and it is quite simply about going with one’s own creative flow to feel the joy of life. Apple Music || Spotify || Beatport
OCTAVES New Music Friday + Upcoming
OUT TODAY: Odd Circuit — STARSTUFF Available on Apple Music, Beatport & more. Genre / Subgenre = Electronic Music, Dance, Progressive House This uplifting track features legendary cosmic Carl Sagan samples. “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself… The cosmos is also within us…” Stay tuned for next week’s new release, whichContinue reading “OCTAVES New Music Friday + Upcoming”