Name: Performance of Raven Chacon’s: American Ledger No. 1
Start: 2025-08-21T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-08-21T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Albuquerque Museum

$Performance of Raven Chacon\u2019s: American Ledger No. 1$

516 ARTS, The Albuquerque Museum & Chatter present American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance.
About this Event

516 ARTS, The Albuqerque Museum & Chatter present 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. The score is to be displayed as a flag, a wall, a blanket, a billboard, or a door. For many players with sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match. Read more.

This performance is part of the exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts.

This performance will take place at the Albuquerque Museum – 2000 Mountain Rd. N.W., Albuquerque, NM 87104 – through Chatter’s Free Museum Summer Series.