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.
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.
