Posts in Music
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)

Bang, the universe began—and ended. A cosmos is reduced to an epigram. Narrative allows us to dash through eternity as quick as a quantum leap.

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Literature, Music, History, FilmGuestR. S. Thomas, Will Cordeiro, David Foster Wallace, Italo Calvino, David Hume, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Paul Wittgenstein, Ted Hearne, Johannes Moser, Johann Strauss, Henri Bergson, Horace Walpole, Willa Cather, Terrance Malick, John Gay, Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Samuel Butler, Christopher Okigbo, Jay Wright, Douglas Kearney, Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas De Quincey, James Agee, John Barthes, William H. Gass, John Lyly, Thomas Browne, Virginia Woolf, Will Self, José Lezama Lema, Severo Sarduy, Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“It is an alchemical process, making something new from bits and pieces.” (An Interview With Morphic Rooms)
“It is an alchemical process, making something new from bits and pieces.” (An Interview With Morphic Rooms)

I wanted to create a visual language in my art practice that reflected the way these musical cut-ups and abrasions sounded to me—transmuted, rejoined.

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Music, Literature, Politics, Interviews, History, ArtKate Wilsonallison anne', Jeremy P. Bushnell, Morphic Rooms, Chris Miller, Grant Morrison, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, Current 93, Psychic TV, Chris and Cosey, David Keenan, Nurse with Wound, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Throbbing Gristle, Fennesz, Art Ensemble of Chicago, AMM, Claire Rousay, Félicia Atkinson, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Sawako, Daisuke Miyatani, Kylie Minogue, Cocteau Twins, Broadcast, Jim Boden, Jam Doughty
From the Editor: The Presto Issue
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, ArtAmanda HawkinsGenevieve 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
Songs for the Presto Issue (A Selection)
Songs for the Presto Issue (A Selection)

An ineffable, blink-quick mix of songs chosen by our team & contributors to evoke the flirtation of silk & song woven through the presto issue.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersQueen, Maude Latour, Lorde, Chappell Roan, Måneskin, Soolking, MUNA, Tracy Manuel, Tegan and Sara, Rosie Tucker, Ida Maria, Florence + The Machine, Michael Kiwanuka, Xana, Samia, Los Campesinos!, The Mountain Goats, Billie Eilish, Macklemore, Angel Olsen, My Brightest Diamond, Ratatat, Home, Grandaddy, SHY FX, Uk Apache, Draag, Lana Del Rey, crushed