Fridman Gallery is honored to present Milford Grave’s first ever art fair presentation, bringing together a range of historic works spanning the 1970s to 1990s in an immersive installation. 

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Milford Graves was a visual artist, drummer, healer, computer programmer, martial artist, and professor of music. His spirit defined the sounds of free jazz, a musical style that became a symbol of Black empowerment. Graves’ artworks combine the various elements of his genre-bending practice: sculptures, drawings and paintings of energy flows connecting body and mind, often incorporating musical instruments and anatomical studies. 

 

Graves was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study human heart vibrations to better understand music’s healing potential. Having taught himself computer programming, he developed an algorithm that assigned musical notes to various frequencies of a heartbeat, generating what he called "heart music". The synthesized tracks could then be sent back into the body using transducers vibrating at modulated frequencies to stabilize arrhythmia.

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