![]() ![]() She is well-known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression. Roberts’ work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit). Her recent work focused on the place / problem of memory and tradition as recognized deciphered, deconstructed, interrogated through radical modes of sound communication, alternative styles of musical notation, and multi-genres of improvisation. She has created alongside visionary experimentalists of this time period in various areas of improvisation, dance, poetry, visual art, theater as a saxophonist, documented on various sound recordings as collaborator, side woman and leader. Matana Roberts is an internationally recognized, Chicago-born saxophonist and multidisciplinary sound conceptualist working in various mediums of performance inquiry. Roberts will be joined by a stellar band of collaborators including Hannah Marcus, Ryan Sawyer, Matt Lavelle, Stuart Bogie, Kyp Malone, and Meshell Ndegeocello on bass. In its latest chapter, Memphis, Roberts deftly weaves a sonic tapestry of African-American ethnography and history with strands of jazz, blues, free improv, afro-futurism, traditionals, spoken word, and avant-garde composition – always guided by her powerfully personal/universal narratives and wholehearted, singular artistic spirit. She is carving out her own aesthetic space, startling in its originality and gripping in its historic and social power.” Roberts has succeeded at evoking both, though, and gives her audience a long look at something ghostly, tragic, and beautiful. Noted music critic Peter Margasak wrote of COIN COIN: “Memory is a powerful thing, but it’s so private, fluid, and unreliable that it can seem almost impossible to capture in a work of art-and history is often no more stable, once you look closely enough. COIN COIN has been widely and highly praised for its stylistic innovations and narrative power. This project is described as a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community, and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. Roulette is pleased to welcome back composer, saxophonist, and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts for the much-anticipated fourth installment of her hugely innovative, profoundly iconoclastic and acclaimed COIN COIN project.
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