:: M i t a . L u p a ::

CURE for TARANTISM :: LP Fully released on Bandcamp, incl. additional track

2025-06-15T17:22:00.000-07:00

Now released in full with new track and full artwork.
Click on any image below.

Hello, humans et al ~

As some of you likely know, the songs on Cure for Tarantism have been around since 2018-19, so it's not a new release. I just finally combined all the songs into LP form, here, with an additional track added: Breve Passeggiata... which is not a song, but a wee work of sonic art that tells a story with sound effects instead of words or images.

This LP means a whole lot to me. I put in hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours into it. So much thought, so much heart and care. Using skills I've built over decades of honing my craft. Some songs built over a few years. It's an absolute work of love! I invite you to listen through as it was meant to be. Songs in order, plus the new piece. And the addition of the album art, of course.
You can own the collection for the rest of your digital life for as little as $9. Pay what you want after that.

If you've already purchased the songs, when they were available as singles, only, contact me & I will happily comp you this collection as it now is, incl. the additional track and artwork.

Many thanks, as ever, to those who encourage & support me & my creative life <3

Warmly,

Mita

The Early Years

2023-08-03T20:47:00.006-07:00

Set up a new SoundCloud page a while back, for some of my very early works.

Here: MITA LUPA :: EARLY YEARS

Collected 'em up with other golden oldies from my main page, here:

Mita Lupa II ::early years:: · Early Works - In the order I prefer you hear them

Last Dance Before Sleeping :: VIDEO

2023-01-08T21:35:00.008-08:00

Last Dance Before Sleeping :: VIDEO

Shame on me, I didn't post this here upon initial publication. But here it is, for your viewing & listening enjoyment, the awe-inspiring footage from one of the times I almost touched down on a distant red planet in a galaxy not so far away.

Last Dance Before Sleeping Song from the album :: CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE :: Recorded & released 2014 Video created 4/2022 © 2013 & 2022 Mita Lupa :: Mondo Omino Records :: Mondomino Arts Find the LP on Bandcamp & Soundcloud. MITA LUPA Sonic stories for humans & other gods & monsters. soundcloud.com/mitalupa instagram.com: @mita_lupa Follow me here & there for more.

WOLF EATS the MOON :: New Sights for Seasoned Sounds

2022-03-23T15:33:00.019-07:00

Love music for tigers & wolves ~ How to eat the moon while purring.

WOLF EATS the MOON Song from the album :: CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE :: Recorded & released 2014 Video created 2/2022 © 2013 & 2022 Mita Lupa :: Mondo Omino Records :: Mondomino Arts Find the LP on Bandcamp & Soundcloud. MITA LUPA Sonic stories for humans & other gods & monsters. soundcloud.com/mitalupa instagram.com: @mita_lupa Follow me here & there for more.

Pop Melodies Will Save Us

2020-10-12T23:01:00.004-07:00

Mita Lupa · I Need Another Jet (after dinner)

CURRENT: Mita Lupa : Cure for Tarantism ~ 8 songs released

2019-04-16T20:00:00.001-07:00

For my recent tiny videos, go to my video page or my Instagram @mita_lupa

Everything

Adding images ::

2018-08-10T22:41:00.006-07:00

More visual art page updates happening on the regular.

Just put up a few examples of my branding & packaging design work from back when, plus a smattering of other projects, including some super sweet sound schematics.

About to add another painting or two.

click for~
FINE ART::
GRAPHIC ART::

Ciao for now.

Page updated: Fine Art ~ 2-D

2018-08-04T15:05:00.001-07:00

Therein you will find 2-D art that I've made by hand. Paintings, drawings, prints, & my latest adventure - collages. There's a link on the left, or you can get there by clicking here: Mita's 2D Fine Art.

The page features selected works from over the decades. Ones that I'm proud of, which I enjoy, & that I feel most continue to represent me over time.

More to come soon, as I'm on a big visual art bender lately. The first piece on the new art page was completed only a few days ago, & more water-media will be posted soon.

Of note, regarding my 2-D art: My first job was as a helper/apprentice with a fine art oil painter in Phoenix, AZ. I learned *so much* working with her for 3 years, between the ages of 14 & 17. I prepped her surfaces in the very particular ways that she preferred, which - if a canvas - often required around a dozen coats of gesso, sanded & steel-wooled in between to create the glass-smooth but still-springy surface that she so loved (inspired by the canvases of her fave artist, Salvador Dali). The skills I learned from & with her - art skills, life skills, the art of storytelling - have assisted me in my own life's work ever since.

I also have a knack for imitating the work of other artists, & I've had other jobs assisting other artists with their own creations, as well, including the detailed painting, itself. Various styles.

Here's a list of the mediums/techniques I'm skilled with:

Acrylic
Oil
Watercolor
Gouache (new to me! Fun!)
Canvas & paper stretching & prep
Oil-based linoleum printmaking
Monoprints
Graphite pencils
Colored pencils
Ink work
Collage
Impressionism
Abstract
Expressionism
Trompe L'oeil
Illustration (figurative & otherwise)
Stained glass
Reverse-glass painting
Sculpture
Mold-building/Cast-making
Plaster
Paper Mache
Clay
Fimo/Sculpey
Metalwork
Soldering
Welding (gas, mig, tig)
Carpentry
Stage-building
Set/stage painting
Lighting design
Costume design & building
Model-making
Beadwork (lots)
Batik
Fabric Dying
Embroidery
Applique
Weaving

I'm sure I've left some off. They'll come to me later. In the meantime, if you're interested in working with/hiring me for an art project/job, & don't see that yours is a medium I'm already skilled with, try me! There's a chance I'm at the very least familiar with the technique, & I'm also quite savvy with new tools & techniques. Cheers!

Page updated :: Graphic Arts

2018-07-17T15:17:00.004-07:00

You should be able to see the link to the left, but here's a shortcut: Mita's Graphic Art

Currently, it mostly showcases some of my more recent work, created over the last five years, with some very recent collages (created in the last month, June-July 2018).

Soon I will be adding older work, including the retail packaging design of my former incarnation as a specialist in this regard.

Check back soon for more, or inquire within if you wish to see samples of this work sooner.

~Mita

Ride on, Baby, ride on :: New song released

2017-08-07T12:30:00.000-07:00

Best mix first ~ BIGILICIOUS MIX

Mita Lupa · Mita Lupa :: RIDE ON (Bigilicious Mix)

Wolf Eats the Moon

2017-05-06T20:12:00.004-07:00

Based on a true story. Names changed to protect the innocent.

from the 'Catch a Tiger by the Toe' LP, released 12/2014

This week's most listened to song: An oldie

2017-04-19T14:46:00.000-07:00

This spooky little song came from the waste-not-want-not end bit of a tape during my 4-track days. All the music is from my Casio MT-140 keyboard, voice recorded w/ an SM-58, all onto my Yamaha MT-120 cassette 4-track. Some of my fave old tunes were the less-the-one-minute experimental bits that came from those master tape cassette leftovers. This one is no exception, and seems to remain a listener fave. It's also downloadable (free!) via Soundcloud. Enjoy!

New EP out. Smashing fascism, one synth-pop song at a time.

2017-01-22T23:19:00.003-08:00

Not untrue. I do what I must.

A tiny EP. 4 tracks totaling about 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The first track isn't really a song, it's the oppressive feeling of watching the world attack itself as an evil empire grows omnipresent. And it's only 26 seconds long. The other three are darkly oozing dancey synth-pop songs for humans and other monsters. ::more text below the music::

These songs were born out of a meeting of danceable synthesizer love and extreme frustration about the state of the world over the last year. It all culminates with the ushering in of a terrible orange curse upon our people, hence my release date of January 20, 2017. My muse is... not amused. She's been around a lot in the past 14 months. We've been holed up, like mad scientist toymaker gardners, seeding, growing, building, testing new musics (and even an automaton or two.) However, the songs on this EP pushed their way up and out fast, and are, to me, teachers. I know a lot of composer/songwriters, etc, feel this way, and I have before... but now, quite surely. Casting an unapologetic light on what I see as a very dark time. Wrapped in dark electro-pop packages, delicious, poetic invitations to consider the state of the human world, and our place in it together.

Most of the sounds & songs you hear on this album were initially created using the Roland JD-Xi synthesizer. Sometimes further treated in production, not always. Shout out! I do love that little beast.

Mita Lupa
The Fall of Decency :: Part 1 :: EP
1/20/2017

1. The Inauguration of Odious Re
2. Temptin' Fate
3. Everything's Dangerous
4. No One's Receiving

Monster's Lament

2015-10-15T16:37:00.001-07:00

Scary little ditty that's been rattling around in me head. BOO! *will be available for dload via bandcamp soon

'Tis the season ~ One of my videos, AT LARGE, to get you in the spooky Halloween mood

2015-10-09T20:27:00.003-07:00

Apropos for the Halloween season: My song 'Crazy Maze' takes the listen-stat lead

2015-10-06T21:50:00.000-07:00

Herertofore, 'At Large' & 'Towards Yonder Castle' stayed at the helm, but now, they have both been surpassed. Perfect all Hallow's Eve timing, it's Crazy Maze in at #1 most listened to thus far, of my solo tunes uploaded to Soundcloud. It's not much compared to many others, but... It keeps it's own momentum. Thank you to those who listen to & appreciate me. Love.

Herein this blog post lie my most season appropriate songs. Happy Halloween! ~Mita

Note to the actors, from a show I directed in 2007

2015-09-24T16:53:00.000-07:00

A few things to think about in preparation for rehearsals:

1. Ass scratching is fun!
2. Hairy cave babes are HOT!
3. Mmmmm, Squirrel: Tastes like chicken, makes good fuzzy hats

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...the play = 'Dawn of Civilization -or- Society in Ferment' by Garry Myers. Produced at Scottsdale Community College, 2007.

New page up, my collaborations so far 2015

2015-09-23T00:42:00.000-07:00

:: Here ::

Hungry songs hunting voices:

2015-09-22T21:07:00.002-07:00

Seems they have found me.

Telekignosis EP released

2015-03-22T21:18:00.000-07:00

Catch a Tiger by the Toe ~ Notes on the making of

2015-01-07T23:24:00.001-08:00

Dec. 3 marks the release of the tiger.... I caught a tiger by the toe, and now I've set it free.

Herein I will expound upon the inspirations and processes behind the creation of this LP.

'Catch a Tiger...' began when I signed up to participate in the 2014 RPM Challenge. A day or 2 shy of Feb 28th, I completed the last of 10 songs in <28 days, totaling around 31 minutes.

In both number of songs, and length of complete work, I was done. However.... I was fond of what I'd created. I decided to not release it for the RPM Challenge, but refine it and give it a proper send off as something I really spent time on, poured a lot of skill & love into.

I took the challenge as an invitation to really play with musical ideas. One of my favorite things to do is build art (music, painting, writing) from random ideas/triggers/prompts, games of Exquisite Corpse, & Consequences, running mostly randomly chosen sounds through a sequencer - randomly. So, it was with various off-the-cuff beginnings that many of these 13 songs began (I ultimately subtracted one from the tracklist, and added three, post-February.) What I do then/along with this technique is to work that into structure, build a 'world' up from there. Sometimes, that world is inspired by an landscape I see or imagine, sometimes by a bit of fiction out of my head that wants to come into the world as a song, sometimes it's an instrumental expression of an emotional or psychological element of my life, sometimes it's just for fun, beauty, math, or science. Plus.

I use whatever tools and skills I have to build a particular piece, according to what it yearns to become. In the case of 'Catch a Tiger by the Toe', I've leaned heavily on soft-synths, sequencers, samples, sound effects/field recordings, and creativity in the production, itself.

Ruy Lopez started the lot. That's why the footsteps. The car. Ruy Lopez comes out after 5 pm in a Spanish town full of dust and old tires and useless, rusty car parts. He's a hopeful man, boldy going. He's got something extra special in his pocket, and it's not a piano this time.
What borders?
Inspired by real life adventures. And chess.

This'a Way walks with Ruy towards, into, and then rapidly away from a playground, where a couple of very big kids sing & swing.

Sand Bone Whale Feather began when Josh Faber-Hammond sent me (at my request) some lo-fi recordings of himself jamming. I found a couple of agreeable loops in it, sampled them, sequenced them with a bit of effects and math trickery, then laid in synths. Industrial evolution kinda stuff. The only collaboration on the album.

International Hustle. I wanted to write a dance song. One of the few songs on the LP where I'm singing. I also sang "Ruy Lopez," repeat, in the song of the same name, "row, row, row your boat" on This'a Way, and The haunting calls in How to Make a Tiger Purr. The lyrics of International Hustle (A Mess of Happy) are pulled from a couple of older and more recent pages of scribbled lyrics, and revamped. It is, essentially, about loving people regardless of time or space. It's about the tiny stolen kiss, the glances from behind flickering eyelashes, long laughter, touching hands, blank stares, animated talks about everything except the thing that makes your heart flutter.

Lost at See. Your gaze went right over my head.

The Nonversation might be self evident, via tone and title, but...
a conversation that loops around and around and around, never seems to arrive anywhere, and you walk away from it not quite sure what just happened.

Secondhand Smoke was initially just the wild, noisy guitar. Created by setting delays on the input of my guitar track, arming to record, then letting go a random non-chord, and letting the effects play out. What became was long, crazy loop-upon-itself that lasted over 7 minutes before I simply stopped the recording. Pleased with the results, I further effected the track by setting vastly different effects with an on/off mute envelope, with the intention of pulling the listener into 2 different 3-D sound spaces. I love the effect. I was going to keep it as-is, but decided to add interest to the track. The reggae beats and synths were the last things I added to the album before mastering.

Wolf Eats the Moon is based on a true story, with the names changed to protect the innocent.

Last Dance Before Sleeping is a nod to dark erotic ghost stories that haunt the imaginations of sullen women with yellow hair.

In a Cave by the Sea is the portal through which we succumb to the whimsy of our most emotionally revealing phantasms.

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Few So Shiny None So Deep. This is a recording I began when I dove into the ocean via my swimming pool as a child, and began this journey towards the center of the multiverse.

How to Make a Tiger Purr... a secret formula I discovered by accident, when conducting psychoacoustic experiments inspired by my reading of this delightful, engrossing book.

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All in all, 'Catch a Tiger by the Toe' is a mélange of sonic experimentation, psychological and emotional catharsis, and creative imaginings. A musical book about me putting a button on, and weaving sense into, particular times & aspects of my life.
Now, on with it.
More soon.

~Mita Lupa 1-7-2015

The tiger has been released!

2014-12-03T15:33:00.000-08:00

This just in:

Catch a Tiger by the Toe by Mita Lupa

Gots them mix-n-mastering blues

2014-03-11T18:51:00.000-07:00

I does. *Sigh* been working on this for too long, ready to let this portion of the project go, but I'm held up on a couple of things, namely that one song is not living up to what I want it to be. Wasn't mastering well, then I remixed it to death, so went back to a previous mix, and starting again from there. Sounds good, but honestly, I'm getting ear fatigue from these particular aural adventures, and I'm not trusting my own ears all the time. I'm now loading a test mix onto my ipod, to test it on my crap headphones and hear it plugged in elsewhere. This is great fun, though... I'm certainly in my element, and this project is dazzling me with it's freewheeling weirdness.

Album gestating. New project. Embracing playfulness.

2014-03-09T23:04:00.001-07:00

I had signed up to do the RPM Challenge - create an album, 10 songs or 35 minutes worth of music, in the month of February. I have *almost* done this with others before, but we didn't get it together. This time, it was all me, save the donation of some lo-fi drums which I totally mutilated. I thought I would bring in more collaborators, but that's not how it turned out. I was happy to hide away in my newly rented space with all my gear around me again, totally immersed in music-makery for days on end. And that's just what I did. A couple of the songs got some re-working during the month, but mostly it was all start-to-finish in a relatively fell-swoop. Broken by sleep and fun in the snow and food and a week off to clear my ears et al. So, started about 2 days in, week off, not every days besides, I had 10 songs, 25 minutes, and cover art. All in, really, about 2 weeks of f/t work. However... I was wrong in thinking I *needed* the cover art, and spent too much time on it. At the end, I faced a couple of small technical difficulties and it all added up: wait to release it, and make it better. SO... that is what I'm doing - making it better. I've been tweaking synths variables, beefing up bass drums, finding better verbs, going deeper into mastering... whatever each song calls for, including adding some backing vocals to the opening song, just last night. I was hearing them, and there they were. Now they are. So the album opens with the one and only (as of yet) vocal number. Well, robot Spanish vocals, and my simple backing, but still... I'm thinking I need at least one more vocal number on this baby to balance it out.

There's more, besides the music itself, to work out. Other bits include the art, the included text, yah, but most confusingly is *how to release it*. Bandcamp? CD Baby? I've been making music for 20 years, now, and have hundreds of songs (recorded and not) in my canon, but not once have I worked towards and released an *album*. A long-playing work comprised of the collection of smaller works, which all together create a cohesive whole, as well as working well on their own. WELL... This is FUN CITY! This isn't just a collection of musical numbers, it's a journey, an adventure in landscapes, it's earth, water, air, and space. It beckons one into it's surreal world of avant-garde psychedelidub, airport-hopping dance explosions, diving into an exotic waterworld, french-kissing robots, and spinning gently through nebulas. I am defo turning on the sound design for this journey. It's a sit-between-speakers or wear-headphones kinda work, I hope it holds up as such, and otherwise, as well.

I reached the goal, and am confident with moving beyond it. It's very close to done, but a bit more to go. Though I also look forward to the next projects, It means a lot to me to do this well.

It's a quirky one... a concept piece, and will be released under a new moniker, which will hopefully continue as it's own project. Here it comes.

Ancient Sun ~ Lyric/poem for the Monarchs

2014-02-20T10:30:00.000-08:00

Today, a friend posted a link to a monarch butterfly welfare site. Monarchs are enchanting! I was inspired to post this, which happens to be the lyrics to the second song I ever wrote & recorded (not on my own, re: the recording - in a friend's studio, before I had my own). Wish I had a copy ready... don't have this baby in digital form yet. The lyrics:

Ancient Sun

Have you seen the black and orange monarch?
On succulent milkweed they graze.
In ancient sun they gather in millions and
perk up in storm's smoky haze.
I used to catch them in nets as a child when they
gathered amok in my yard.
Run fast & jump higher! Their movement's like fire, and
catching the monarch's quite hard.
Go! Find Mexico, south a bit further,
your lifespan is only 6 weeks,
but I'll see your grandchildren this time next year,
once again, when the ancient sun peaks.