What Gets Amplified

Chacon’s compositions are written for a variety of ensembles, musicians and non-musicians, and for social and educational situations. Together with the collective Postcommodity, he presented The Ears Between Worlds Are Always Speaking at 2017’s Documenta 14, in Athens. The installation uses repurposed Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) speakers to broadcast stories and songs of recent forced displacement and transformational journeys, told in a variety of languages by multiple speakers, during a time of one of the greatest mass migrations in history.