VIDEO: Postcommodity's Futuristic Music

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary artist collective comprised of Kade L. Twist (Cherokee), Cristóbal Martínez (Mexica), Raven Chacon (Navajo), and Nathan Young (Pawnee, Kiowa). They have been working together as a collective since 2007.

All of the members of the group are musicians and have created work outside the collective:

Nathan Young has his solo project called Alms. Kade L. Twist is in a noise/drone band Usga based out of Phoenix, AZ. Raven Chacon has worked as a composer and performer in the West Coast and Southwest music scenes for the last dozen years.

Raven's work is primarily as a solo noise artist and chamber composer. He also co-founded the organization First Nations Composers Initiative  and has also performed in dozens of bands. Raven currently has collaborations with musicians William Fowler Collins, Deerhoof's John Dieterich, and pianist Thollem McDonas.

RPM speaks with Postcommodity about coming together as a collective to create sound art and perform experimental noise for audiences and what drives their work.  Interview and performance recorded at Museum of Contemporary Arts.

Postcommodity will have an installation piece at the upcoming ImagineNative 2011 and will also be doing a piece this winter for Toronto's Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.

Look for the new EP of Postcommodity on Anarchamoon Recordings called Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine. Raven Chacon's label can be found at Sicksicksickdistro.

Artist Call: Postcommodity seeking Aboriginal Artists for Nuit Blanche Installation

Nuit Blanche is a free all-night contemporary art  event that happens once a year in Toronto. Yes all night - from 6:59pm to sunrise. For 2011 imagineNATIVE will co-present a new interactive art work by the groundbreaking Native American artist collective Postcommodity.

Postcomodity is seeking Aboriginal artists, writers, musicians, performers and community leaders to perform key roles in the work, Radiophonic Territory (Nocturne). The large-scale installation sounds really fascinating, ambitious and exciting. It's an incredible opportunity to collaborate with one of the world's leading multi-media Indigenous artist collectives

From Nation Talk: Call For Aboriginal Performers, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto:

The installation consists of suspended natural fibre ropes woven into a three-dimensional pattern inspired by Iroquoian and Ojibwe tribal geometries.

This is where you come in. The radio waves from a live, anonymous FM transmitter attached to an on-site “confessional booth” will animate these ropes as you give your confession. The confessions are intended to be individual, familial and Indigenous community responses to the history of institutional violence and colonization, to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and to the effort to reveal truth, while working towards healing and reconciliation. It might take the form of a true confession, a personal story, or a musical performance. Postcommodity wants to hear your ideas.

The goal of the work is to provide a stage for Indigenous people to confess their respective truths and experiences to the city of Toronto, to honour Indigenous voices and to amplify them with the beauty of a unified hum, or song, resulting from their collective voices.

TIME: One hour between the hours of 7 pm – 7 am DATE: October 1 -2, 2011 LOCATION: Victoria Collage Chapel (2nd Floor, Room 213 – Victoria College Building 91 Charles Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7)

An honorarium will be provided for collaborating performers.

Contact scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca, with the subject line: Radiophonic Territory (Nocturne), for more information.

Use the same subject line and email address to submit your idea (no more than one-page) by July 31, 2011.