KinoSaito presented the premiere of Raven Chacon’s American Ledger No. 3 (2020), a composition devoted to the journalist and anti-lynching campaigner Ida B. Wells. Like many of the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist and composer’s works, American Ledger No. 3 is a graphic score to be interpreted, in this case, by an ensemble of vocalists. (American Ledger No. 3 includes a flag emblazoned with the score and a newsprint publication that connects Wells’s writing to contemporary police violence.) 

This event was a part of series of performances Signaling and was co-presented by the magazine Triple Canopy, which is edited by Alexander Provan, the curator of Signaling.

This event is co-presented by the magazine Triple Canopy, which is edited by Alexander Provan, the curator of Signaling.

Thank you to our sponsors: HIATUS Tequila and Captain Lawrence Brewery.