Raven Chacon "Drum Grid" Performance
Date: Friday, July 14, 2023
Time: 5PM
Location: Benton Park, St. Louis, MO
Details:
Raven Chacon’s Drum Grid is a composition for numerous drummers, each positioned on a street corner throughout the Benton Park neighborhood. Beginning with a single drum hit from one player, subsequent drummers imitate the sound of the previous drummer down the block, with the gesture evolving as it travels around the neighborhood. Over time, they misinterpret their cues and source material, therefore adding new gestures to the original musical action, as nearby buildings and houses create more false echoes and polyphony. By performing Drum Grid, a community has agency to change the landscape of their neighborhood, activating potential questions and new generative urgencies.
This is a moving composition through the Benton Park neighborhood. Audience members will move with it around the park.
