Percussionist, Educator, and Researcher Heather Sloan stops by to talk about her current work in Digital Arts and Ethnographic Storytelling at Indiana University (02:45), being elected to the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Advisors and her work in helping develop PAS’s Diversity Alliance (24:50), growing up in California and her early experiences in music (34:50), getting her undergrad and master’s degrees at UC-Santa Cruz and her research on John Cage’s Constructions (47:35), playing in bands in Santa Cruz, getting her DMA at SUNY-Stonybrook, and some mutual discussion of Long Island (59:45), getting the Fulbright scholarship to study (and also enjoy the food) in the Dominican Republic (01:16:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment on the gendered nature of percussion, old movies, gymnastics, and the visual artist Stuart Davis (01:23:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the film In & Of Itself (01:47:00).
Links:
Heather Sloan being honored at PAS
IU’s Institute of Digital Arts and Humanities
Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer
Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics
Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics
Simone Biles at the 2016 Olympics
Raves: