Matana Roberts / Ben Vida: Performing Artist in New York

About Matana Roberts / Ben Vida

Matana Roberts and Ben Vida are artists whose work sits between composition and improvisation, presented in New York City at ISSUE Project Room. Roberts, based in New York, approaches sound through multiple practices, moving between experimental music, visual art, and jazz saxophone and clarinet, with ties to communities such as the AACM and the B.R.C. Vida works across electronic and performance-based forms, often testing how structure can be built from texture and process. Together, their performances tend to favor close listening over spectacle.