Colloquium Series: Raven Chacon & Dylan Robinson

Please join us for our next NYU GSAS Music Colloquium, featuring Raven Chacon giving a composer's talk about his scores, and Dylan Robinson discussing the role of the event score in his book Hungry Listening, and different art scores by Indigenous artists in the travelling exhibition Soundings.

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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.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist and writer, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. He is the author of Hungry Listening (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) on Indigenous and settler colonial forms of listening. Other publications include the edited volume Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North America (2019) that won both the American Musicological Society’s Ruth Solie Award, and the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Ellen Koskoff Prize. His current research focuses on the material and sonic life of Indigenous ancestors held by museums, and reparative artistic practices that address these ancestors’ incarceration in museums.

All Colloquium events are free and open to the public.