Raven Chacon is a sound artist with a massive respect for chamber music instruments, but a great distaste for many of the people who play them. He has worked as an educator, performer, junk-builder for Discovery Channel, and as a non-spiritual advisor. He carries the burden of an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Music Composition, and takes advantage of it by playing in many bands for free (including: the Death Convention Singers, Tenderizor, Mesa Ritual and KILT). Raven currently co-operates the Rio Grande Satanical Gardens performance space in central NM as well as the Sicksicksick micro-record-label. He hides out anywhere between Albuquerque, NM and Los Angeles, CA with stations at Phoenix and the Navajo Reservation.
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RAVEN ON WIKI
EDITOR’S NOTE:
We would like to add that Raven is a well known composer of chamber music and a performer of experimental music, having studied with James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and Wadada Leo Smith. Raven is one of the few American Indian classical composers as well as educators of the “New Native Art” and has performed his music and shown his art around the globe.