Matana Roberts Presents Coin Coin Chapter 3

Claire Potter, Kelly Jayne Jones

Presented by: psykickdancehallrecordings

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0	MANCHESTER: International Anthony Burgess Foundation
P	Sunday 14th May, 2017
N	7:30pm

Event information

Matana Roberts is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work she has described as “panoramic sound quilting”. Roberts aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression from jazz to noise, opera and spoken word, taking on history, community, storytelling and political expression.

River run thee, the third chapter of Coin Coin, was released on Constellation in 2014. It finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. It unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.

Support from:

Claire Potter, an artist writer from Merseyside working across performance, publication, installations and film.
http://www.clairepotter.net/

Kelly Jayne Jones
Performing solo or with collaborators, Jones makes use of varying combinations of prepared recordings, text, rocks, found sounds and flute.
http://kellyjaynejones.tumblr.com/