CCAM Sound Art Series: Raven Chacon

For the third event in the Spring 2021 Yale CCAM Sound Art Series, we are excited to welcome Raven Chacon!
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM
For this event, Raven will speak with moderator, Ross Wightman about his practice and have an open discussion around a survey of different work he has made including installations, compositions, and his recorded output.
This will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
The CCAM Sound Art Series is Curated and Produced by Ross Wightman. Cover photo from Report by Raven Chacon. “Report is a musical composition scored for an ensemble playing various caliber firearms. The sonic potential of revolvers, handguns, rifles, and shotguns are utilized in a tuned cacophony of percussive blasts interspersed with voids of timed silence. In the piece, guns – instruments of violence, justice, defense, and power – are transformed into mechanisms for musical resistance.” – Raven Chacon