Nick Jaina is an author and musician living in Oakland, California. His 2015 memoir Get It While You Can was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Atlantic Monthly, Wilderness House Review, Somnambulist, Oregon Journal of the Humanities, and many other places. He has composed music scores for feature films, such as the indie comedy All Sorts and the forest fire documentary Elemental. He also co-founded a ballet collective in New York City, in which he was the musical composer and worked with dancers from Juilliard and New York City Ballet and performed works at the Baryshnikov Center and BAM Center for the Arts.

His new book, SPEKTRUM, is a literary re-creation of an immersive light and sound exhibit of the same name that he co-created in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2018. That installation was composed of seven rooms, each one a different color of the rainbow. Each guest walked through one at a time in silence, reading beautiful letters placed for them, playing a mysterious piano that sounded more beautiful than anything they had heard before. The Santa Cruz Good Times said of the performance, "Spektrum challenges what art looks and feels like. It's a range of emotion and otherworldly experiences all tucked away in a little wooden box in the woods."

The book SPEKTRUM is in second person present tense, and upon reading it, you feel a spell being cast on you. Each chapter is a different color, and as you read through it, you feel like your presence somehow changes the words on the page. It is published by Modern Mythographer Press in the fall of 2022.

CONTACT INFO
nickjaina@gmail.com

BOOKS by Nick Jaina
2022 - SPEKTRUM
2020 - Hitomi
2015 - Get It While You Can

ALBUMS by Nick Jaina
2021 - CREDO
2019 - Black Rainbow
2016 - Brutal Lives
2013 - Primary Perception
2011 – The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone
2010 – A Bird in the Opera House
2008 – A Narrow Way
2008 – Wool
2006 – The 7 Stations
2005 – The Bluff of All Time