"Stitched" for Violin · 
 Johnny Gandelsman

This Is America: An Anthology 2020-2021


note: there is a moving image component to this score that the musicians are also reacting to in real time

'Stitched' For Violin by Matana Roberts

this is a mixed media sound quilt  in my I CALL AMERICA series that was premiered last year at the Time Spans festival in NYC. the score on this was a mix of digital and analog, i will link to the video on my website soon. Sandra Bland did not deserve death. She should be here along w/ George Floyd and all the other victims of police brutality. it was honor to create this and work with the fine musicians listed here:


I call america: Sandy Speaks... , 2019 *
World premiere
Commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust

Jaimie Branch, trumpet
Matt Lavelle, bass clarinet and pocket trumpet
Maria Grand, tenor saxophone
Geng/King Vision Ultra, wordspeak and sampler
Roberto C. Lange, wordspeak/electronics
Tomas Fujiwara, drums
International Contemporary Ensemble

Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Levy Lorenzo, percussion
Cory Smythe, piano
Mariel Roberts, cello

Sandy Speaks

I'm an American mixed media multidisciplinary artist, sound explorer. I'm a hybrid of many different American traditions. I like to work between the cracks of creativity...As far as music making is concerned, I do not believe in genre....My core instrument: alto saxophone, my core visual medium: collage/assemblage/moving image. This page is a mix of uploads...bootlegs and self recordings...

'Stitched' For Violin by Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts/ odds and ends....

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