Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 228 - Heather Sloan

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

Geospatial Intelligence

IU’s Institute of Digital Arts and Humanities

StoryMaps

Humanitarian Mapping

Raymond Des Roches

Cal Trader

Fulbright Scholarship

Merengue - Paul Austerlitz

Julie Hill on PPP

Joshua Simonds on PPP

Elizabeth DeLamater on PPP

Rebecca McDaniel on PPP

Jillian Baxter on PPP

Lamon Lawhorn on PPP

Teddy Hall, Jr. on PPP

Steven Schick

Lou Harrison

John Cage

Mr. Bungle

Mike Patton

John Zorn

Quechua

Sonic Youth

William Winant

Perry Goldstein

Gilbert Kalish

Martin Denny

True/False Film Festival

Square Peg Round Hole

Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer

Do the Right Thing trailer

The Blob trailer

The Great Escape trailer

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

William Faulkner

Tennessee Williams

Ibram X. Kendi

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Yorker

Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics

Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics

Simone Biles at the 2016 Olympics

Stuart Davis artwork

Raves:

In & Of Itself trailer