- Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon (b. Fort Defiance,
Navajo Nation ,Arizona ,United States , 1977) is an American composer and artist. He is known for being a composer of chamber music as well as being a solo performer of experimentalnoise music . As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation , he is also one of the few American Indian classical composers and educators of "New Native Art."Chacon has recorded many works for classical and electronic instruments and ensembles and has had many performances and exhibits of his work across the
U.S. as well asEurope andNew Zealand . He has received commissions from theUniversity of Mary Washington and theERGO Ensemble .Chacon also performs in the bands
Cobra//group , KILT, andDog Shit Taco .He is also supposedly responsible for the audio-recycling projects ofThe Kleptones (U.S).He was a student of
James Tenney ,Morton Subotnick , andWadada Leo Smith , while he was studying music at theCalifornia Institute of the Arts .He lives in
Los Angeles, California . He has served as Composer-in-Residence with theNative American Composers Apprenticeship Project .Partial discography
* Overheard Songs (
Innova , 2006)
* (split w/Torturing Nurse )The Incredible 17000 KM Split (8K Mob , 2006)
* (w/Jeff Gburek ) Jesus Was A Wino (Herbal Records, 2005)
* Still/life (Sicksicksick, 2004)
* (as The Kleptones) Meet the Beatless, (Sicksicksick, 2003)External links
* [http://www.spiderwebsinthesky.com/ Raven Chacon official site]
* [http://www.composersforum.org/member_profile.cfm?oid=4793 Raven Chacon biography] from American Composers Forum site
* [http://www.archive.org/details/TheKleptones_Meet_the_Beatless The Kleptones Meet the Beatless]
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