BOMB Magazine | Milford Graves A Mind Body Deal

Editors Mark Christman, Celeste DiNucci, and Anthony Elms’s book Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal is a strikingly beautiful experience of the life, mind, and work of one of the foremost creatives of our time. Born in Jamaica, Queens, Milford Graves (1941–2021) worked across numerous modalities such as music, art, herbalism, martial arts, acupuncture, and cardiology to help people “reach another kind of freedom that’s been given to us by nature.”

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BOMB Magazine field recording  |  ghosts

Ghosts is a work of photography, sound design, and personal narrative that highlights the similarities between the New York subway and the saxophone. The piece suggests that the concept of quantum entanglement may provide a model for understanding the relationship between music and noise.

NewMusicBox essay  |  A Universal music

When I attended the Banff workshop for Creative Music in 2013 saxophonist and composer Hafez Modirzadeh challenged me to "reach beyond ethnic stylizations..." propelling me down a wondrous path of inquiry and exploration. This essay challenges the concepts of "genre" and instead proposes that music exists as a continuum.