A Performance of Raven Chacon’s American Ledger No. 1

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.

Free admission. Light refreshments are included.

Image credit: Raven Chacon, American Ledger No. 1, 2018. Score for performance printed on army wool blanket, 58 x 79 inches. Courtesy of the artist.