No one could quite remember who first said it - probably the botanist with the prosthetic leg and the mechanical toucan - but by the time we convened in the kitchen, the phrase was etched in chalk on the blackboard above the espresso machine:

'What is magic but science in a velvet jacket?'

Welcome to the collected dispatches from Science & Magic, our fortnightly bulletin for the inquisitive, the defiant, and the marginally unstable. This isn't a place for either/or. It's a place for the awkward, beautiful ‘and.’ A space where thoughts and ideas are encouraged to get tangled in each other's shoelaces and fall down laughing. Here, you will discover dispatches from writers, musicians, visual artists and field recordists, each exploring the strange, unnameable territory that most classification systems pretend doesn't exist, the blurry bit where most of us actually exist.

Below you will find our complete archive. We hope you find something that catches you off guard.

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Our collection of contributors grows through careful selection. We welcome correspondence from both established voices and those whose best work currently resides only in their notebooks or meticulously labeled portfolios. If you feel a kinship with our approach, we invite you to direct samples of your work and a brief personal history to matt@violetterecords.com.