Marco Missinato: 'Profoundly Connected Connected to Music' - May 8, 2012
City Life Communication Interview with Marco Missinato
CLC: When did you first discover your talent for music?
MM: Since the very beginning of my physical experience here on Earth I was profoundly connected to music. I started to play musical instruments around the age of 3. More then a personal talent discovery, it was a deep feeling of love occurring when music was playing.
CLC: What was the first instrument that you played?
MM: I started with a little flute and then as soon as was possible I got involved with keyboards and piano
CLC: When did you first move to LA and how did you get your start in the music scene here?
MM: I came in Los Angels in 1992. The very first year I was a full student at the Musician Institute in Hollywood. Soon after that I started to perform in restaurant and bars as a way to make money and produce the music that I felt inside.
CLC: What inspired you to move to LA ?
MM: When I first came in the USA back in 1988/89 (I was sent by magazines I was working with as a professional photographer) I felt an immediate sense of freedom and spaciousness. Therefore later I choose USA as the ground platform for my musical creative evolution.
CLC: Did you come from a family of musicians, did they have an influence on your talent?
MM: The member of my family seem to have all strong artistic potentiality most often unexplored because the outside circumstances stopped them from pursuing it.
CLC: You have an amazing repertoire of music ranging from Sinatra to songs for pets, to meditative type of music. How did this all evolve and what are some of your favorite genres of music?
MM: All the music and musical projects that I have created in the past as well the ones I am working in the present are coming from the same source. They are just different creative ways to express my passion and love for music. It gives me joy to express my connection with music in various ways.
I like all genres of music as long as I sense, when I listen to their work, that the creative motivation of the composer, producer and artist are genuinely coming from their heart.
CLC: Much of your work is so romantic and sensual. What are come of your thoughts on romance and love?
MM: Romance to me is the art of honoring the female energy in all there is.
Love is the ultimate essence of life and music when purely channeled is the highest vibration available on Earth and has the capability to dissipate the illusion of separation and instantly take you into the frequencies of LOVE.
CLC: You compose a lot of your own music. What inspires your work and do you compose for television, movies or commercials or other musicians?
MM: The art of composing music in my personal experience is a very mysterious process that I truly cannot explain with words. I seem to have access to it when I enter a state of no-mind. Sometimes the compositions that I create in this process sound very much like soundtracks and therefore can be used in movies and other medias.
CLC: Have you ever worked with any big names in music and if so who and what did you enjoy most about working with them?
MM: I have been performing in situations in which celebrities were present and I always had positive feed-backs and enthusiastic responses. I love to give joy to people through music weather they are famous or not.
CLC: Tell me about some of the musicians who you have collaborated with on your CDs and performances.
MM: I have been very lucky to have wonderful musicians performing my music. Among them Chris Tedesco, David Goldblatt, Steve Tavaglioni, Ramon Stagnaro, Joe Rotondi etc.
CLC:P I've heard that you are quite in demand among the Hollywood celebrity crowd. Tell me about some of your concerts and performances and what do you enjoy most about doing live performances?
MM: My focus when I provide music for events is to open the heart of people and have them feel more intimately connected with life so that they momentarily let go at their mind and connect fully with their heart and soul and have a uniting experience. By monitoring constantly the crowd I select the song or music composition that my intuition tells me is most appropriate for that specific moment. That too is a mysterious process that I simply allow to naturally unfold by tapping with my higher source.
CLC: You have quite a vast body of work. Tell me about some of your newest projects while touching on some of your earlier work.
MM: Among my latest projects I have just finished to produce a series of Seven guided imagery meditation journeys entitled “BACK TO LIFE”, a blend of guided spoken words (by world renown healer Barry Bruder) and high-vibrational original music and sounds soon to be launched in hospitals, clinics and to be used as part of recovery programs in support of healing traumas, injuries, diseases etc.
Melodies From Within is another series of CDs I am about to distribute on the market. It is a collection of original instrumental compositions for shooting the heart and soul.
Soul Journey is a 3 albums series of Ambient music to be released in January 2010. In 2012 my band NAKED SOUL will lunch its first live concert for healing which will be touring in USA, Europe and Asia.
Among my past compositions PETS LOVE MUSIC is a 5 CDs series of music dedicated to Pets and Pet Lovers.inato.bandcamp.com
CLC: What are your thoughts on Music as an art form?
MM: Music is a very powerful and transformational art form and therefore the composer and the performer hold a great responsibility. They both must make sure that their melodies come from true non-ego source.
CLC: What do you hope people enjoy most about your albums and your performances?
Marco: My intent and my life purpose (other then self growth) is to create a profound transformational musical experience in a concert and album formats in order to uplift, support and inspire people to follow their greatness.
CLC: Have you ever done anything a little crazy, like parachuting from a plane? What was it like and what did you learn from it? Have you ever done anything else adventurous like that?
Marco: Yes, I did parachuting twice. It was a wonderful freeing experience. My life is a constant expanding adventure as long as I keep being daring and stretch out from my comfort zone into the unknown and mysteriousness of life.
CLC: What advise would you offer for aspiring musicians?
Marco: Follow your heart, your joy and your passion they are all the same: Streams of love coming from high source. It is life itself telling you which direction to take as it magically unfolds in front of your eyes.
CLC: Do you have any artists that you admire?
MM: I admire every person whose attempting to express him/herself through the heart and therefore through the arts (isn’t it interesting that heart and art sound so similar?). It does not matter if they are famous or unknown, if they sing or play or simply make art out of an ordinary jobs. I have strong admiration for anybody whom are choosing the courageous act of being true to themselves despite the streams of resistances that they have to face in their daily base life when they relate with the so called ‘common sense”.
CLC: Will you or your band be contemplating any tours in 2012?
MM: Naked Soul will be launching a series of live concerts.
CLC: You sing and play piano, do you play other instruments?
MM: In the past I have been using other instruments to create music, like guitar, harmonicas, flutes etc.
CLC: Do you have any special memories that stand out in your mind from your childhood and also from any of your performances?
MM: More then memories it is the constant recurrent feeling of overwhelming joy, love and unity with the WHOLE that I sense every time I allow myself the necessary vulnerability to accommodate higher levels of frequencies. I remember how in my childhood this process was effortless and achieved in a magical instant moment.
CLC: Also are there any artists (musicians or visual artists from the past, like the Renaissance era or the 17 and 18th 19th century's that you admire?
MM: When you listen to my childhood earliest compositions it will be obvious to you that somehow I have in me a strong connection with classical music. I cannot point you out specific names or time period because my relationship whit music is not related to three-dimensional data.
CLC: Do you have any favorite movies or songs that have had an affect on your life?
MM: There are may movies and songs that I love. Cinema Paradiso and its music by Ennio Morricone (just to mention one) has a simplicity and yet a profoundness that touches me at the core.
CLC: How does the notion of love and romance come through in your music?
MM: Music when purely channeled offer the possibility to bridge oneself with the non-physical world and therefore dissipate the illusion of separation which leads to a feeling of love that is not weighted with neediness and sense of lack.
CLC: How is art discovered within one's self?
MM: You make art by simply following your joy. Any activity can become an artistic expression if joy and divine creativity are allowed. Once can be a postman and if delivering mail is his true call it will become an artistic effort. Such a person every time will deliver the mail will have an healing effect on people. Also his/her way to deliver mail will be very unique and creative because it will be an action that is in deep connection with true source.
CLC: What are your thoughts on time and space as far as what we as humans do with our time on earth?
MM: Time and space are a necessary and momentarily human perception which allow the soul to have a three dimensional experience. By choosing to enter this field of frequencies the soul creates the opportunity for immense explanation and self-awareness.
CLC: How would you describe universal love as it relates to relationships.
MM: Universal love is the understanding that there is no separation between the elements of the entire existence. It is all connected as the instruments of an infinite orchestra.
CLC: If you could transport your self to any time and place, past or future, what time period would you enjoy visiting and why?
MM: I would probably choose a far light star in the future the feeling of which it makes me feel home
CLC: Where can music lovers go to purchase your music?
MM: My music and albums can be purchased online through my website www.melodiesfromwithin.com (soon to become www.marcomissinato.com), iTunes, Amazon.com, CD Baby and at http://marcomissinato.bandcamp.com.
CLC: When did you first discover your talent for music?
MM: Since the very beginning of my physical experience here on Earth I was profoundly connected to music. I started to play musical instruments around the age of 3. More then a personal talent discovery, it was a deep feeling of love occurring when music was playing.
CLC: What was the first instrument that you played?
MM: I started with a little flute and then as soon as was possible I got involved with keyboards and piano
CLC: When did you first move to LA and how did you get your start in the music scene here?
MM: I came in Los Angels in 1992. The very first year I was a full student at the Musician Institute in Hollywood. Soon after that I started to perform in restaurant and bars as a way to make money and produce the music that I felt inside.
CLC: What inspired you to move to LA ?
MM: When I first came in the USA back in 1988/89 (I was sent by magazines I was working with as a professional photographer) I felt an immediate sense of freedom and spaciousness. Therefore later I choose USA as the ground platform for my musical creative evolution.
CLC: Did you come from a family of musicians, did they have an influence on your talent?
MM: The member of my family seem to have all strong artistic potentiality most often unexplored because the outside circumstances stopped them from pursuing it.
CLC: You have an amazing repertoire of music ranging from Sinatra to songs for pets, to meditative type of music. How did this all evolve and what are some of your favorite genres of music?
MM: All the music and musical projects that I have created in the past as well the ones I am working in the present are coming from the same source. They are just different creative ways to express my passion and love for music. It gives me joy to express my connection with music in various ways.
I like all genres of music as long as I sense, when I listen to their work, that the creative motivation of the composer, producer and artist are genuinely coming from their heart.
CLC: Much of your work is so romantic and sensual. What are come of your thoughts on romance and love?
MM: Romance to me is the art of honoring the female energy in all there is.
Love is the ultimate essence of life and music when purely channeled is the highest vibration available on Earth and has the capability to dissipate the illusion of separation and instantly take you into the frequencies of LOVE.
CLC: You compose a lot of your own music. What inspires your work and do you compose for television, movies or commercials or other musicians?
MM: The art of composing music in my personal experience is a very mysterious process that I truly cannot explain with words. I seem to have access to it when I enter a state of no-mind. Sometimes the compositions that I create in this process sound very much like soundtracks and therefore can be used in movies and other medias.
CLC: Have you ever worked with any big names in music and if so who and what did you enjoy most about working with them?
MM: I have been performing in situations in which celebrities were present and I always had positive feed-backs and enthusiastic responses. I love to give joy to people through music weather they are famous or not.
CLC: Tell me about some of the musicians who you have collaborated with on your CDs and performances.
MM: I have been very lucky to have wonderful musicians performing my music. Among them Chris Tedesco, David Goldblatt, Steve Tavaglioni, Ramon Stagnaro, Joe Rotondi etc.
CLC:P I've heard that you are quite in demand among the Hollywood celebrity crowd. Tell me about some of your concerts and performances and what do you enjoy most about doing live performances?
MM: My focus when I provide music for events is to open the heart of people and have them feel more intimately connected with life so that they momentarily let go at their mind and connect fully with their heart and soul and have a uniting experience. By monitoring constantly the crowd I select the song or music composition that my intuition tells me is most appropriate for that specific moment. That too is a mysterious process that I simply allow to naturally unfold by tapping with my higher source.
CLC: You have quite a vast body of work. Tell me about some of your newest projects while touching on some of your earlier work.
MM: Among my latest projects I have just finished to produce a series of Seven guided imagery meditation journeys entitled “BACK TO LIFE”, a blend of guided spoken words (by world renown healer Barry Bruder) and high-vibrational original music and sounds soon to be launched in hospitals, clinics and to be used as part of recovery programs in support of healing traumas, injuries, diseases etc.
Melodies From Within is another series of CDs I am about to distribute on the market. It is a collection of original instrumental compositions for shooting the heart and soul.
Soul Journey is a 3 albums series of Ambient music to be released in January 2010. In 2012 my band NAKED SOUL will lunch its first live concert for healing which will be touring in USA, Europe and Asia.
Among my past compositions PETS LOVE MUSIC is a 5 CDs series of music dedicated to Pets and Pet Lovers.inato.bandcamp.com
CLC: What are your thoughts on Music as an art form?
MM: Music is a very powerful and transformational art form and therefore the composer and the performer hold a great responsibility. They both must make sure that their melodies come from true non-ego source.
CLC: What do you hope people enjoy most about your albums and your performances?
Marco: My intent and my life purpose (other then self growth) is to create a profound transformational musical experience in a concert and album formats in order to uplift, support and inspire people to follow their greatness.
CLC: Have you ever done anything a little crazy, like parachuting from a plane? What was it like and what did you learn from it? Have you ever done anything else adventurous like that?
Marco: Yes, I did parachuting twice. It was a wonderful freeing experience. My life is a constant expanding adventure as long as I keep being daring and stretch out from my comfort zone into the unknown and mysteriousness of life.
CLC: What advise would you offer for aspiring musicians?
Marco: Follow your heart, your joy and your passion they are all the same: Streams of love coming from high source. It is life itself telling you which direction to take as it magically unfolds in front of your eyes.
CLC: Do you have any artists that you admire?
MM: I admire every person whose attempting to express him/herself through the heart and therefore through the arts (isn’t it interesting that heart and art sound so similar?). It does not matter if they are famous or unknown, if they sing or play or simply make art out of an ordinary jobs. I have strong admiration for anybody whom are choosing the courageous act of being true to themselves despite the streams of resistances that they have to face in their daily base life when they relate with the so called ‘common sense”.
CLC: Will you or your band be contemplating any tours in 2012?
MM: Naked Soul will be launching a series of live concerts.
CLC: You sing and play piano, do you play other instruments?
MM: In the past I have been using other instruments to create music, like guitar, harmonicas, flutes etc.
CLC: Do you have any special memories that stand out in your mind from your childhood and also from any of your performances?
MM: More then memories it is the constant recurrent feeling of overwhelming joy, love and unity with the WHOLE that I sense every time I allow myself the necessary vulnerability to accommodate higher levels of frequencies. I remember how in my childhood this process was effortless and achieved in a magical instant moment.
CLC: Also are there any artists (musicians or visual artists from the past, like the Renaissance era or the 17 and 18th 19th century's that you admire?
MM: When you listen to my childhood earliest compositions it will be obvious to you that somehow I have in me a strong connection with classical music. I cannot point you out specific names or time period because my relationship whit music is not related to three-dimensional data.
CLC: Do you have any favorite movies or songs that have had an affect on your life?
MM: There are may movies and songs that I love. Cinema Paradiso and its music by Ennio Morricone (just to mention one) has a simplicity and yet a profoundness that touches me at the core.
CLC: How does the notion of love and romance come through in your music?
MM: Music when purely channeled offer the possibility to bridge oneself with the non-physical world and therefore dissipate the illusion of separation which leads to a feeling of love that is not weighted with neediness and sense of lack.
CLC: How is art discovered within one's self?
MM: You make art by simply following your joy. Any activity can become an artistic expression if joy and divine creativity are allowed. Once can be a postman and if delivering mail is his true call it will become an artistic effort. Such a person every time will deliver the mail will have an healing effect on people. Also his/her way to deliver mail will be very unique and creative because it will be an action that is in deep connection with true source.
CLC: What are your thoughts on time and space as far as what we as humans do with our time on earth?
MM: Time and space are a necessary and momentarily human perception which allow the soul to have a three dimensional experience. By choosing to enter this field of frequencies the soul creates the opportunity for immense explanation and self-awareness.
CLC: How would you describe universal love as it relates to relationships.
MM: Universal love is the understanding that there is no separation between the elements of the entire existence. It is all connected as the instruments of an infinite orchestra.
CLC: If you could transport your self to any time and place, past or future, what time period would you enjoy visiting and why?
MM: I would probably choose a far light star in the future the feeling of which it makes me feel home
CLC: Where can music lovers go to purchase your music?
MM: My music and albums can be purchased online through my website www.melodiesfromwithin.com (soon to become www.marcomissinato.com), iTunes, Amazon.com, CD Baby and at http://marcomissinato.bandcamp.com.
