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Synchropathy: the simultaneous experience of emotion by two or more people.
(e.g. synchropathetic, synchropath)

Baldwin Lee at The New York Times.

In regard to ownership, I don’t feel I personally have any real claim over my songs. I feel they belong equally to those who love them. These songs have urgent work to do. I send them out into the world, bright emissaries of the spirit, to travel where they are needed, collecting souls as they go – to the joyful and the disheartened, the sick and the well, the grievers and those yet to grieve, the lost and the found, the good and the bad and the somewhere in-between. They become a great whirling conga-line of souls, in all their despicable beauty, frugging to ‘Stagger Lee’ or shedding a tear to ‘Ghosteen,’ all the way into the sun. — Nick Cave

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn’t matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.
— Leonard Bernstein

One Minute for Each Key

It was as though he was speaking in tongues and there was fire coming from heaven — a sound baptism.

And now you’re a composer, too.

"Lone hero narratives push one figure into the public eye, but they push everyone else back into private life, or at least passive life." — Rebecca Solnit

The Passion of Questlove

Skin trade: a playlist of percussion at the outer limits – The Wire

Roberto Roena, Salsa Percussionist and Bandleader, Dies at 81

John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America

On the Internet, We’re Always Famous

The Supply-Chain Mystery