TBA:19 FESTIVAL

Ortman is joined on both nights by Portland musician and interdisciplinary artist Marcus Fischer, and by Raven Chacon, a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, for one night only on Sept 7th.

Marcus Fischer is a first generation American musician and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work typically centers around memory, geography, and the manipulation of physical audio recording mediums. Slowly unfolding melodies and warm tape saturated drones have become a trademark of his recordings and live performances alike.

Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation) is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, and an installation artist. He performs regularly as a solo artist as well as with numerous ensembles in the Southwest and beyond, and was a long-time member of the Indigenous art collective Postcommodity. Chacon’s work explores sounds of acoustic handmade instruments overdriven through electric systems and the direct and indirect audio feedback responses from their interactions.