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Matana Roberts (born 1975) is an American sound experimentalist, visual artist, jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, composer and improviser based in New York City. They have previously been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and a member of the B.R.C. Black Rock Coalition.
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Oct 6, 2015 · Saxophonist, composer, improviser, visual artist: Matana Roberts is one of the most exciting artists working today, and nowhere better demonstrating this is her COIN COIN project, a 12-chapter work exploring African-American history.
Matana Roberts (born 1975, Chicago) is a saxophonist, composer, and sound artist currently based in New York City. Growing up in the colorful jazz scene in Chicago, Roberts began.
While this new chapter of Coin Coin focusses on a female-identified protagonist, others haven’t (Chapter Three being from the perspective of a male ancestor) and Roberts intends for future chapters to continue to cover the breadth of the gender spectrum, as well as their Native American heritage.
Jul 27, 2011 · Matana Roberts grew up in Chicago hearing stories about her extended family, from its roots in Louisiana and Mississippi, to its participation in the Great Migration north early in the 20th...
Feb 13, 2015 · It’s difficult to come up with a better descriptor for Matana Roberts’ dense, enveloping music than the one she uses: panoramic soundquilting.
