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 experimental noise 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 as Europe and New Zealand. He has received commissions from the University of Mary Washington and the ERGO Ensemble. Chacon also performs in the bands Cobra//group, KILT, and Dog Shit Taco. He is also supposedly responsible for the audio-recycling projects of The Kleptones (U.S). He was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and Wadada Leo Smith. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Native 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
- Raven Chacon official site
- Raven Chacon biography from American Composers Forum site
- The Kleptones Meet the Beatless
