This lecture theorizes noising as a decolonial methodology, situating Raven Chacon's Voiceless Mass (2021) within a space where the aesthetic, political, and epistemic borders of modernism grow porous, as Chacon-grounded in Diné and Chicanx epistemologies-reconfigures noise into a communal practice of resistance and healing.

Ana Alonso-Minutti is Professor of Musicology and Associate Chair of the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds (Oxford University Press, 2023), which received the Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society. She also serves as coeditor of Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press).