To: Austin-based constituents of COTFG

From: Music Research Strategies, COTFG Resident Composer, Percussionist, Theorist, and Digital Community Archivist

Please forgive the strangeness of this “cold-call” invitation format to request your participation on August 15 and 16 near Peace Point near Lady Bird Lake for a meta-performance of Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon’s conceptual graphic score, “Dispatch #2: The Gathering,” which is part of their trilogy of “reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defense of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment in 2016.” 

*https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/unsettling-scores/dispatch

Colleagues and bandmates, Hopkins and Chacon invited myself and others to perform this score in 2020, or so. ““Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement (ENLA): Floating Signifer,” is a reboot from the original, transformational method of:

A) documenting audiences reading the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

B) documenting spatial electroacoustic processing,

C) performing acoustic drum set with digital artifact and, D) Learning-Driving Assessment (internal).

Performing ENLA is to accompany, for the most part, n/Noise. Hence, new formations of movement combinations and flows are possible in my (drummerly) body as New, or Creative Improvised Music. At the same time, I approach my instrumentation only as utensils for language formation predicated outside (beyond) my ego.

On Saturday August 15 (7:00PM) and Sunday August 16 (10:00AM), you are invited to contribute six digital files of the movement of water, as illustrated in the graphic score above, to a digital community archive that be sourced for a public installation screening as part of a performance curriculum for a Walk-in Choir, Audience-led Creative Music Conduction and Live Sound Track Recording for  the developing of a 50-state, De-Center for Unknowing (DCU) Initiative to address the concerns presented in “Dispatch 1-3” and the realization of the ENLA: Floating Signifier, a solo performance vernacular digital community archive, single and multi-channel video composition, walk-in choir, audience-led conduction and documentation.

We will provide onsite assistance to help you document and submit your files. Meet near Peace Point at Lady Bird Lake Metropolitan Park.  Park in the vicinity of Tinnin Ford Rd. and Lakeshore Blvd and walk towards EpicSUP kayak dock –  Map link here

COTFG and I offer a live, in-person and online Project Meeting on Thursday 8/13/2026 from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and Friday 8/14/2026 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm held at a Reserved Room in the Carver Library (1161 Angelina St. Austin, Tx 78702) and online for your participation and convenience.

RSVP to this message at musicresearchstrategies@proton.me and a personalized message will be sent to you by the Artist.

Warm regards,

Marshall Trammell

Music Research Strategist