MUSIC







Carter is a life long practitioner of African and Afro-Carribean drumming and dance. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the master drumming for Agbekor, an ancient dance of the Ewe tribe of Ghana. He has also taught master classes in Congolese dance at Rutgers University, Cal State Long Beach, Montclair State University and for African Art historian Robert Farris Thompson at Yale University.  African culture is often reflected in his visual art and in the polyrhythmic elements in his music.





Below are excerpts from seventeen of his compositions. 
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"A Beleza Que Existe"



"Ashe"



"Appalachian Pearls"


"Mountain Meadow"



"Congo Express"



"Serengeti"



"Three Against Four"



"Spring"



"Appalachia"



"Goofy Foot"



"Looking East"



"Gathering by a Stream"



"Shangó"



"Indo Dream"



"Black Mamba"



"Rain"



"Kalimba: The Thing That Makes Walking Easier"