Concert by Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo

Description:

Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo’s collaborative performance activated amplified objects, drawing on Indigenous and Mexican symbology and ritual items, as well as a long history of American experimental music stemming from John Cage and subsequent composers. 

For their concert at Western Front, the artists performed two thirty-minute sets that experimented with a combination of commercial and homemade electronic instruments, including various pedals, contact microphones, radios, found objects, woodwind instruments, and circuit bent toys. Facing each other across a table in the round, Chacon and Galindo’s improvisation layered samples and distorted loops, bridging worlds of contemporary sound art, acoustic composition, and noise.

A livestream of the concert was available on Vimeo. The performance was framed by a conversation between Chacon, Galindo, and Kate Woolf titled “Sound, Silence, and Process,” presented in 2020 as part of Fillip’s ongoing Means of Production workshop series. A transcript of the conversation was made available on Fillip’s website. 

Presented by Fillip in partnership with Western Front, and with the support of the Government of Canada and SOCAN Foundation.