“Music was a helpful place to live in the yearning.” (An Interview with Sara Mae of The Noisy)

There was a time where I saw myself and my desire as violent, and this song is meant to complicate that story.

"Maybe there’s a world where feeling is the same as knowing." (Sunny Vuong on Synaesthesia)

But for three minutes and 23 seconds, that magic stretch of a song where my poem lives as both love letter and record player, synaesthesia is more like a bridge.

Music, Film, LiteratureGuestJune 15, 2021Sunny Vuong, Frankie Valli, Gil Junger, Heath Ledger

"If I had a theory of noise it would contemplate substrates akin to the murmuring whale, and those substrates only." (Peter Milne Greiner on Sforzando)

Is the sforzando the registration or the dread?

Everything Is Known and Loved Because It Is Known: Familial Song in Little Women

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?

Literature, Music, FilmHana WidermanMarch 16, 2020Greta Gerwig

This Woman's Work

A tear falls down his cheek and the tear becomes a single drop of blood hitting the ground. They’re in the bedroom now, kissing.

Film, Music, Literature, PoliticsHana WidermanNovember 20, 2019Kate Bush, John Hughes, Margaret Atwood

As Wings to a Bird: Pride and Prejudice, Annihilation, and the Magnetism Musical Scores Bring to Film

Whether you’re a film aficionado or a casual viewer, if you’ve ever watched a movie, you have inadvertently been impacted by its musical score.

"I turned the songwriting process into my diary at a time I was trying to develop the ability to forgive myself." (An Interview With Barroo)

I think of my work as being temporal by nature.

Cinematic Spring (a selection)

For this languid, near-summer day, a selection of standout songs to ease you into the world of Bengali musical cinema.

III: Nocturne | Uncomposed: "Long Past Midnight"

The first time I ever watched a movie in black & white was on invitation from Isabella.

Columns, Film, Music, Personal EssayLydia EileenJune 11, 2017uncomposed

Miles and Miles and Miles to Go

I took comfort in making myself even smaller, tucking in my edges until I felt whole. Myself, a perfect and solitary thing.