“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.

“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.

“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.

You Don’t Own Me: A Selection of Queer Music Before Stonewall

Though perhaps not as loud as what we know today, queerness has always been alive in music, hopeful and radiant and revolutionary and gentle.

I Spread Like Strawberries: Fiona Apple, Rape Stories, and Getting Free

Can you be raped without being turned forever into something beyond yourself?

Music, HistoryLexi CovalsenSeptember 1, 2020the Notorious B.I.G., Fiona Apple, Claudia Rankine

Harmonium Dreaming

It’s a strange thing, to have a relationship with an instrument as complex and fraught as mine is with the harmonium.

IV: Grazioso | Uncomposed: "Through Everything"

When she was younger, my grandmother danced cour for a local ballet company.

To Trade a Throat for Song

Call this bridge, meeting place. Call it, mosque. Call it, and it will call back.

Music, History, Personal Essay, PoliticsDanie ShokoohiOctober 3, 2017

Humming Along to Shakespeare

The music made Shakespeare transform into a dream-like world down here on earth.

Music and the Social Etiquette of Teatime

Polished china and an array of delectable pastries, the gazebo and rose garden, a small orchestra playing classical music.

Music, History, Personal EssayMargaryta GolovchenkoAugust 24, 2016ed sheeran, he is we, history, owl city