April 2024
Solo Performance at Tate Modern’s “Preemptive Listening” Festival
Who sounds the alarm, and in the interest of what? What would a siren for the intertwined human, non-human and more-than-human sound like? Curated alongside Aura Satz’s Preemptive Listening film premiere and three-day programme, Tate film brings together musicians, artists, historians, sociologists, activists, and more in a symposium to explore the critical potential of reimagining sirens. The three panels will investigate sonic commemoration; sensing; repurposing, and deep time, delving into changing emergency signals and communication methods. Drawing on the film…
Find out more »Duo Performance with Iggor Cavalera at Cafe Oto
Cafe Oto is excited to host a very special matinee duo performance from composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Raven Chacon, and acclaimed Brazilian drummer and founding member of Sepultura, Iggor Cavalera.
Find out more »May 2024
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2024
The history of thousands of years can be read on some rock faces. This is also the case in the Wartenberg quarry, which provides the backdrop for an acoustic natural theater with music by the American composer Raven Chacon and the Ensemble Monochrome. RAVEN CHACON Report (2001) for Firearms Ensemble 4' Call for the Company, in the Morning (2022/24) for eight brass instruments and live electronics premiere THE MONOCHROME PROJECT MARCO BLAAUW, CHRISTINE CHAPMAN, MATHILDE CONLEY, RIKE HUY, BOB KOERTSHUIS,…
Find out more »Solo Performance at Carnegie Museum of Art
Join artists, naturalists, musicians, and poets for a day of locating ourselves and our histories within landscapes near and far through the lenses of 19 contemporary artists who comprise Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape. The day begins with light breakfast in the Hall of Sculpture followed by readings at 10:30 a.m. with Natalie Diaz and Saretta Morgan, a sound performance with Raven Chacon at noon, and a landscape walk with Ben Krawec and Patty Krawec at…
Find out more »June 2024
Voiceless Mass in Bodø, Norway
Chacon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning orchestral composition, Voiceless Mass, will be performed in Bodø/Bådåddjo/Buvvda (during its year as European Cultural Capital) on 7 June 2024 in collaboration with the Arctic Philarmonic, and Bodø 2024. The concert will also feature Chacon’s orchestral compositions, Biyan (2011), as well as performances by the Sámi composer, Elina Waage Mikalsen. A conversation at Stormen Concert Hall will take place earlier that day, between Raven Chacon and Patricia Marroquin Norby, Associate Curator of Native American Art at The…
Find out more »October 2024
Solo Performance at Skaņu Mežs in Riga, Latvia
Riga, Latvia’s Skaņu Mežs festival for adventurous music will host its 21 edition on October 6-8 at concert hall Hanzas Perons (16a Hanzas street), with an opening event on September 30. Tickets can be purchased at www.bilesuserviss.lv. Festival ticket price is 50 EUR; the early bird discount is available till July 1. Last year, The Wire Magazine hailed Skaņu Mežs as “wildly ambitious” and “the biggest avant-garde music festival in the Baltics”. The first confirmed acts of the event are…
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