“Panoramic sound-quilting” is the term internationally renowned composer, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner Matana Roberts uses to describe her combination of instrumental music, singing, text, and visual imagery.
Exploring themes of American history, memory, and ancestry, her very personal and improvisatory body of sound work is startling in its originality and gripping in its historic, political, and social power. She brings her creative practice as a musician merged with social consciousness to the Veterans Room for a site specific performance in her ongoing anthropological examination of music, storytelling, and the long, diverse history of her birth country.
The performance will feature a snare drum sextet comprised of Kate Gentile, Tomas Fujiwara, Qasim Ali Naqvi, Mike Pride, Ryan Sawyer, and Justin Veloso, and "wordspeak" by spoken word artist Geng.
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Matana Roberts
First Preview: Apr 19, 2018
Opening Date: Apr 24, 2018
Closing Date: Apr 25, 2018
Running Time: 01:05
Playing @
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 15
Audience Advisory: There is no late seating; performance in the Veterans Room
Performance Schedule
TUESDAY, APRIL 24th @ 7 & 9 PM
Music
- Matana Roberts
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$45.00 - $45.00
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The Park Avenue entrance of the Armory with its interior and exterior stairs pose obstacles to access that the Conservancy intends to resolve in the upcoming renovation. In the meantime, we are committed to improving access for visitors who have trouble climbing stairs. -
Entrance
The Park Avenue entrance of the Armory with its interior and exterior stairs pose obstacles to access that the Conservancy intends to resolve in the upcoming renovation. In the meantime, we are committed to improving access for visitors who have trouble climbing stairs. -
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67th Street between 3rd and Lex: Westminster Garage
166 East 67th Street
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254 East 67th Street
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