Hosted by the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, music students in the Department of Music will perform Chacon’s American Ledger No. 1 (2018) in the courtyard between the Gorman Museum and the Della Davidson Dance Studio.

>> Parking information and a how-to for getting to the space can be found on the Gorman Museum’s website. <<

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.

Chacon is the Winter Quarter spotlight artist in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.

Free

About the Artist

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass, and in 2023 was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.