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 …
Quote for Today: Wassily Kandinsky
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown …
Look and Listen #2: The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson
If you haven’t heard Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, prepare yourself for this stirring work. This is a scoring for full orchestra; the original was for a …
Featured Artist: B.J. Brooks
Meet Dr. B.J. Brooks, who composed Pathway to Polaris, featured in the upcoming issue of Synkroniciti Magazine as a music video recorded by the West Texas A&M Symphony Orchestra conducted …
Featured Artist: The WTAMU Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Mark Bartley
Meet Dr. Mark Bartley, the director of the West Texas A&M University Symphony Orchestra. We are so proud to feature the orchestra, along with concertmaster and violin soloist Havuka Lund, …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador, Mi casa, Mi país
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this …