Tamarind Talks: Raven Chacon

Hear the Pulitzer Prize–winning local musician and artist speak about Tiguex, a city–wide performance and a lithographic edition printed and published by Tamarind Institute that serves as the musical composition’s map and score. Chacon will be joined by author and University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti.

Devised by Albuquerque-based composer Raven Chacon, Tiguex is a large-scale musical composition consisting of twenty overlapping movements performed over the span of a day, across the city. Tiguex, printed and published by Tamarind Institute, exists as an edition of lithograph prints of the score, which is in the form of a map of the city currently known as Albuquerque. The score shows the geographic locations of where the movements will take place throughout the city while also functioning as a temporal map, referencing the diverse landscapes of the central Rio Grande valley: the Sandia mountains, the volcanoes of the West Mesa, railroads, waterways, conquistador trails, Route 66, and Sandia and Isleta Pueblos.

This program is made possible through the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.