White People Killed Them
- Raven Chacon
- John Dieterich
- Marshall Trammell
- Giorgio Magnanensi
As part of Vancouver International Jazz Festival, join us for a discussion an workshop with interdisciplinary artist Raven Chacon, guitarist John Dieterich, and percussionist Marshall Trammell. Together, they form the noise-laced, turbulent White People Killed Them, a group that encourages surprise inventions and innovations towards erecting, maintaining, and defending democratic spaces in arts communities and beyond.
Throughout the event, Chacon, Dietrich, and Trammell, will be joined in conversation by the artistic director of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio Magnanensi.
About the Artists
Raven Chacon is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, and an installation artist from the Navajo Nation, based in Albuquerque, United States. He creates work as part of the interdisciplinary art collective Postcommodity, and performs regularly as a solo artist and with numerous ensembles in the Southwest and beyond. Chacon was the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
John Dieterich is an American musician known largely for his guitar work in the band Deerhoof, which he has been a member of since 1999. In that time, Deerhoof has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums and toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Dieterich has also been a member of several other bands, including Gorge Trio, Endlings, Colossamite, Natural Dreams, SWAPS, Powerdove, The Hand to Man Band, Dieterich & Banes, and Bad News from Houston, among others. He has worked as a musician, producer, mixer, remixer and collaborator with numerous artists across several musical genres.
Marshall Trammell is an experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, and composer based in Oakland and Albuquerque, United States. His aesthetics and activism are centered in social change interventions to generate new local and global ecologies that embrace improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in the creation of post-capitalist imaginaries. Trammell’s ongoing Music Research Strategies project uses aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music- and art-making to step out of the domain of traditional cultural institutions, relocating the act of co-production back in the community.
Giorgio Magnanensi is an artist based in Roberts Creek, Canada. His practice includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit bending, video art, and sonic and spatial explorations. He is the artistic director of Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio Arts Society, and a lecturer in the Department of Music at Vancouver Community College.
Accessibility
The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. While plans for a full building upgrade to facilitate access for wheelchair users are still underway, all events in the Grand Luxe Hall are made available virtually via high-quality livestream (see link above). Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.
Acknowledgements
Presented in partnership with Vancouver New Music and Coastal Jazz with support from the Government of Canada.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.