April 2024
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 »September 2024
Duo Performance at Albuquerque Museum with Laura Ortman
Third Thursday: Performance - Raven Chacon & Laura Ortman Free event in connection with Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue A site-specific experimental music performance at 6 pm by award-winning artists and long-term collaborators Raven Chacon and Laura Ortman, both featured in the Broken Boxes exhibition. Sound artist Autumn Chacon will air an unsanctioned broadcast of the performance locally from the museum.
Find out more »Duo Performance at USC with Laura Ortman
Award-winning composers Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) and Raven Chacon (Navajo) will play together, drawing from their respective practices and building upon their previous collaborations to create an experiential, improvisational live set of sound and movement. This performance will be paired with a Q&A that explores their creative process. Laura Ortman is a soloist musician, composer, and vibrant collaborator creating across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer,…
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…
Find out more »Solo Performance at Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland
Going into our 22nd edition, Unsound is one of the world’s most influential festivals of adventurous music. The program includes electronic and experimental music, as well as a late-night club program, and singer-songwriters who push the form forward. Highlights this year include Bill Callahan, Lankum, The Body X Dis Fig, Skee Mask b2b Actress, Kali Malone, Laurel Halo, Kode9, DJ /rupture, Evian Christ b2b evilgiane, Keiji Haino, Mica Levi & Sinfonietta Cracovia, ML Buch, Piotr Kurek, Still House Plants, Yellow…
Find out more »Solo Performance at KM28, Berlin, Germany
Doors 20:00 / Start time 20:30 / entry by donation
Find out more »Solo Performance at STUK, Leuven, Belgium
A NIGHT WITH RAVEN CHACON On the occasion of the opening of his first solo exhibition in Belgium, internationally renowned artist and Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon invites you to join him on a journey contemplating the stories landscapes hold. The exhibition Rift Variations: Collaborative Video Works includes the videoworks Gauge, 2013-2015; Rift Transcription, 2020 (in collaboration with Candice Hopkins); Earth Mother / Father Sky, 2021 (in collaboration with Rob Thorne); and Watȟéča :: Ch’iyáán Yiskáago, 2022 (in collaboration with…
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