(2025)
Composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning, Albuquerque-based composer Raven Chacon, Tiguex is a large-scale musical composition consisting of twenty overlapping movements performed over the span of a day. The performance took place September 27th, 2025, from dawn to dusk, across the city of Albuquerque.
Tiguex exists as an edition of lithograph prints of the score, which is in the form of a map of the city currently known as Albuquerque. The score shows the geographic locations of where the movements took place throughout the city, while also functioning as a temporal map, referencing the diverse landscapes of the central Rio Grande valley: the Sandia mountains, the volcanoes of the West Mesa, railroads, waterways, conquistador trails, Route 66, and Sandia and Isleta Pueblos.
Documentation of the event is currently in production into a feature film. More information on the event and film can be found at Tiguex.com