![]() ![]() One such artist is the psychedelic soul musician Swamp Dogg, who was scheduled to open for Prine before the tour’s COVID’s cancellation. While it is crucial to honor the dead, these passings also remind us that it is equally important to praise the living, and give our artists their roses while they are alive. It’s like I’m discovering the DNA of heart sounds.” There’s a lot of hidden things in the heart––it’s amazing. ![]() “So I would record their heart sounds and find all kinds of rhythms. “Those kids really believed that!” Graves exclaimed. Students from different cultural backgrounds would enroll, lamenting that they didn’t have any rhythm. In a wide-spanning and life-affirming conversation between Graves, executive director of the Haitian Cultural Foundation Jean-Daniel Lafontant, and writers Jake Nussbaum and Catherine Despont––which Broadcast republished from The Pioneer Works Journal at the time of Graves's passing in February––Graves recalls when he taught basic drumming at Bennington College. ![]() This year saw the devastating loss of many cultural giants, including the pioneering scientist, artist, and free jazz drummer Milford Graves, who liberated percussion from rigid timekeeping standards. From small shifts in perspective to radical, field-transforming discoveries, may these selections provide reflection, guidance, or at the least, a welcome, engrossing distraction. As we end a year that was in ways both more hopeful and exhausting than the one before, Broadcast reflects on the stories we published that attested to the present’s complex uncertainties. If 2020 was unanimously deemed an annus horribilis, for the lack of consensus we may consider 2021 an annus discors, a discordant year. ![]()
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