Episode 38: DIS/PLACED - with Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories left behind. Coming out of the fertile hybrid music scenes of Chicago, Roberts resists being pigeon-holed into any one genre, and has a particularly complicated relationship being labeled as a “jazz” musician. In fact, as they point out in this episode, Roberts rejects binaries in general, preferring to explore other ways of being, a theme which is also reflected in the narratives of each of the chapters of COIN COIN. In this episode, we discuss Chapter Five, the loss of jaimie branch, and the lessons they learned from Montreal.  LINKS Matana Roberts Bandcamp Constellation No Sound Left Behind Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (ICASP) Suoni per il Popolo—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro. Read more, including tracklist, at https://acloserlisten.com/2024/09/15/sp-episode-38-dis-placed-with-matana-roberts-podcast/