Written and Designed by Noa Meister

by Bella Lipayon

graphics by Liam Murphy

Early this November, I sat down with a cup of tea and talked with Riya Mahesh, the Texas-born, Boston-based artist behind the experimental electropop project Quiet Light. Riya called me over dinner on the East Coast, and we talked about experimental creation, making your own rules, driving for hours, and getting anyone to listen to your music in the first place.

I ask you this dear reader… if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And, if a person in Bushwick slips slowly into a crowd to dance the night away, and nobody takes a video— were they ever really there? 

"It’s the same with art—it’s better when it’s shared."