The Puerto Rico Experiment

Puerto Rican-born composer Angélica Negrón and her Brooklyn-based indie electronic band Balún team up with GRAMMY®-winning vocal innovators Roomful of Teeth to create a tropical song cycle exploring what it means for a territory without full political representation to be repeatedly treated as a laboratory. Created in collaboration with four Puerto Rican poets (Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Nicole Delgado, Mara Pastor, and Ashley Pérez García) each sonic vignette traces a specific incident in the island’s history as a site of experimentation—from mass sterilization campaigns and imposing English in public schools, to the U.S. Navy occupation of Vieques and UFO sightings in Lajas. Equal parts concert, inquiry, and collective dream, The Puerto Rico Experiment creates a space for radical listening, embodied remembrance, and imagining new cultural and political possibilities.