Introducing Fioritura
The best encores outlive their applause, & the trellis was only ever a suggestion. Bring us a symphony snaking over the house entire.
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“If there is a god, it probably wants us to make things.” (An Interview With Jaydra Johnson)
I need silence, especially if I’m trying to make work from an egoless place.
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From the Editor: The Sevdah Issue
The Sevdah issue shines best in its sideways revelations, exposing what we’ve always wanted in the shape of its absence.
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Announcements , From the Editor , Music , Literature , Art Lee Anderson July 8, 2025 Adam Falkner , Rita Mookerjee , Natalie Marino , Jordan Silversmith , Jared Povanda , Natalye Childress , Angela Sucich , Sophie Crocker , Allison Cooke , Dontay M. Givens II , Nick Visconti , Kathleen A. Wakefield , Amber Cecile Brodie , Amrita Nur , Gordan Struić , Sjafril
“Music leads me to the threshold and silence allows me to step through it.” (An Interview With Sjafril)
Desire, for me, is a form of devotion. A sanctuary of melancholy in the lack of having. A shelter against frenzy. A prayer with no need for sound.
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From the Editor: The Presto Issue
I’m inclined to think life or thoughts or ideas aren’t a blur of movement so much as a collage of image and voice: layered, constant, revved, and singing.
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From the Editor , Announcements , Music , Literature , Art Amanda Hawkins June 18, 2024 Genevieve DeGuzman , [sarah] Cavar , Aurora Shimshak , Will Cordeiro , Harrison Hamm , Maggie Warren , E.B. Schnepp , xochi quetzali cartland , Grace Kwan , Suzannah Watchorn , Abigail Chang , Jesica Davis , Hannah Yerington , Ivi Hua , Annione Ryan Platten , Morphic Rooms
From the Editor: The Elegy Issue
If we are all the dead conversing with the dead, I like to think the language we use to bridge the space between us is called music.
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Announcements , Music , Literature , Art , From the Editor Topaz Winters July 28, 2022 Philip Schaefer , Gavin Yuan Gao , Brittany Adames , Meg Reynolds , Anthony Thomas Lombardi , DeeSoul Carson , Katrinka Moore , Emily Zogbi , Paola Bennet , Geoff Anderson , Esther Kim , Emma Chan , Esther Sun , Tori Grant Wellhouse , Taylor Gianfrancisco , Abby E. Murray , Laura Mei Roghaar , Topaz Winters , Maria Chiara Piglione
"An elegy is a story bigger than despair." (An Interview with Maria Chiara Piglione)
The oval and circular shapes speak of an ancient world, a world where everything is whispered to life by its surrounding details.
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"When we open ourselves to fully experiencing music, the border between sound and body dissolves." (An Interview With Janelle Cordero)
The human face and figure are inescapable transits of power, and seeing certain poses transforming the page grounds me in myself like nothing else.
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