Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it’s like a moment where, …
Quote for Today: Frederick Douglass
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. …
Synkroniciti Magazine Vol. 3, No. 2, “home” drops this afternoon!
Our new issue will be finding its way into inboxes this afternoon! It is a gorgeous and thought-provoking issue exploring many facets of the idea of home, dedicated to the …
Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has …
Quote for Today: Rosalind Fordham
Some tribal cultures believe that the act of creation takes place through music. They literally sing their homes, their villages and their valleys into existence. They keep them strong and …
Quote for Today: Twyla Tharp
Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, …
Quote for Today: Margaret Bendroth after Miroslav Volf
Writer Miroslav Volf explains this more poetically. We experience time, he says, the way we hear a beautiful note from a cello. It may sound like a single pitch, but …
Featured Artist: Misha Penton
Synkroniciti is ecstatic about featuring Misha Penton’s “conspiracy of beauty,” a short film and micro opera written specifically for our new “hidden” issue, due out next Monday! Misha and I …
Featured Artist: Tor Hyams
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet Tor Hyams, with two striking pieces: Junior and The music the rain makes. The first is the story of a young man named Mahmoud …
Look and Listen #26: N’terini by Fatoumata Diawara from Colors
Fatoumata Diawara is a Malian musician and actress born in Ivory Coast. She was sent back to Mali as a teenager to be raised by her aunt in her own …