Matana Roberts / Ben Vida with Sara Magenheimer
About This Event
Matana Roberts and Ben Vida, joined by Sara Magenheimer, present a program at ISSUE Project Room that sits between composition and improvisation. Roberts — a saxophonist, clarinetist and visual artist with ties to the AACM and the B.R.C. — and Vida — a Bard-educated composer working in electroacoustic, drone and musique concrète — favor structured, material-focused sound and close listening over spectacle.
About the Artists
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.
Matana Roberts
Matana Roberts is a New York City–based sound experimentalist, visual artist, and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who works as both composer and improviser. Their background includes ties to the AACM and the B.
Ben Vida
Ben Vida is a New York–based artist and composer with an MFA from Bard College. For roughly two decades he has moved through the international experimental music community, working across electroacoustic composition, drone, musique concrète, and other avant-garde forms.