Chacon is one of our most significant and affecting artists working with sound, with a gift for communicating complex sentiments about history and place through plain language, austere musical scores, and experimental sounds that are often as incisive as they are original.
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Pulitzer Prize winning Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon, who earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in music at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant. He was given the award for “creating musical.