Doran Danoff & Edward Symes: Black Magic Piano

MacEagon Voyce August 4, 2016

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Photo by Leah Overstreet

Teddy Symes was just a child when he first picked up a guitar. Inspired by his brother (musician, Nathan Symes of Chapel Hill) and other gruff, brooding vocalists (Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen), Symes always kept music near and dear to his heart. It was documentary filmmaking, though, that ultimately won his favor. Symes wouldn’t express himself through music until he moved to New York in 2009, when he found himself sharing a small studio apartment ...

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MacEagon Voyce

MacEagon's writing has appeared in Noisey, Thump, Nerdist, CLRVYNT, Earmilk, Frontrunner Magazine, and several other publications. He's working on a novel and is in the early stages of several music projects. In addition to writing, he's also a co-founder of a forthcoming music platform called Grey Matter. It's an app for humans, designed to build community and pay artists. Some other things he spends time with: experimental rock, minimalism, aphotic dancefloors, good films, good reads, baseball, airplanes and the places they go, and those rare moments of quiet in the early hours of a New York City dawn.

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