With Become Desert, composer John Luther Adams is done "Become"-ing (learn why here). First, there was the Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning Become Ocean. Then, Become River. Finally, in 2019, Adams put his feet on solid ground, in a terrain he's much more comfortable with. And now there's Become Desert. Here, Adams talks about what the deceptively simple pieces of the Become trilogy are, both musically and conceptually, about Desert in particular, and about why music > politics will ever be at saving the world.