Past Events

Please join us for the public activation of Raven Chacon’s Vertical Neighbors, a newly commissioned large-scale outdoor score currently installed on SI’s facade. This performance takes place on the occasion of Chacon’s solo exhibition at SI, A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak. Vertical Neighbors is a composition for pairs of the same brass horn instrument. The score exists as a set of murals, visible to one or more musicians on the ground and their counterparts in an elevated…

The trio, according to its members, is “one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities and celebrations by group members recorded in 2019 when we all happened to be in New Mexico.” They will perform a one-hour improvised trio set.

To commemorate the closing of Raven Chacon’s solo exhibition at SI, A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, please join us on our rooftop to witness a performance by White People Killed Them, a trio formed by Chacon with musicians Marshall Trammell and John Dieterich. The trio, according to its members, is “one of several imaginings of new designations, calamities and celebrations by group members recorded in 2019 when we all happened to be in New Mexico.” Please RSVP…

Expand your listening horizons by catching leading contemporary classical musicians at The Wolfsonian in the next installment of the New Music Miami ISCM Festival. Championing and presenting cutting-edge performers and compositions over its 27 years of existence, the festival includes pieces for soloists, chamber ensembles, and music with video and electronics.

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…

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.

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,…

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…