Raven Chacon: American Ledger No. 1 (Live Performance)

Fri., Mar. 4, 2022

Doors at 5:30pm | Show at 6pm

As part of the ongoing exhibition of Raven Chacon’s work, Indexical is presenting a live performance of his graphic score American Ledger No. 1 (2018), outdoors at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz. This work is meant to be performed by “many players with sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match.” Performances will occur twice throughout the First Friday arts event at the Tannery Arts Center, at both 6:00pm and 7:30pm. Each performance is approximately 20 minutes long.

American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance, telling the creation story of the founding of the United States of America. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through graphic notation, and realized by sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match.

Raven Chacon: American Ledger No. 1

Name: Raven Chacon: American Ledger No. 1 (Live Performance)
Start: 2022-03-04 18:00:00 -0800
End: 2022-03-04 20:00:00 -0800
Location: Indexical

Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné artist known as a composer of chamber music, as well as a solo performer of noise music. He was born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States. Chacon attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he received an MFA in music composition and was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Michael Pisaro and Wadada Leo Smith. Chacon also performs in the groups KILT with Bob Bellerue, Mesa Ritual with William Fowler Collins, Endlings with John Dieterich, and collaborations with Laura Ortman. In 2016, he was commissioned by Kronos Quartet to compose a work for their Fifty For The Future project. Chacon serves as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project. He has received awards and honors including a Creative Capital Visual Arts Grant (2012), a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship in Music (2014), and the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin (2018).