Fruitmarket and EAF25 present the UK premiere of Voiceless Mass, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composition by Diné/Navajo artist and composer Raven Chacon performed by Scottish Ensemble. Composed for organ and a large ensemble of flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, strings and electronics, the piece explores the deliberate silencing of voices within colonial and institutional frameworks. The performance highlights the complicity of the Catholic Church in the suppression of Indigenous voices, abduction and abuse of Indigenous children in residential schools in the Americas. A conversation between Raven Chacon and vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener will precede the performance. This performance is presented ahead of the 2025 edition of Deep Time, Fruitmarket’s annual festival of new music, titled I See Red, which will be curated by Raven Chacon in the Fruitmarket Warehouse from 27—29 November.
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