"It's the unison where the magic happens." (Darnell "DeeSoul" Carson on Synaesthesia)

When I listen to music, it moves through me because it has to. The soundwaves hit my ears, and my body decides where it needs to go next.

"The essential mystery of things is sometimes best articulated by their own organic resonances." (Ryan Griffith on Synaesthesia)

The artist’s dictum “trust your materials” only started to make sense in collage, with strange fabrics and colors and patterns coalescing in startling meaning.

"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

"I’ve made so many mistakes in my life—especially in processing familial grief." (Matt Mitchell on Sforzando)

My grandmother introduced the piano to me through AM radio. She didn’t know piano, but she knew piano.

Music, Personal EssayGuestJune 27, 2020The Beatles, Matt Mitchell, Carly Simon, Taylor Swift

"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?

"Nobody ever sees it coming, except for when they do." (Jessie Lynn McMains on Sforzando)

We said to the universe: Please drive faster. Said: Wait up, disaster! Maybe we have an inkling of what we’re summoning even as draw the circle on the floor.