The follow-up to PUBLIQuartet's GRAMMY®-nominated What Is American project, What Is American: Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily

autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the propulsive beat-breaks of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Hip-Hop Etudes, to Andy Akiho's Quartet No. 1 "Mobile on a Stream into the Sound,”

to Vijay Iyer's homage to the music of James Brown, to the complex grooves of Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill's Sixfivetwo, this wide-ranging exploration also features new works by Jeff Scott, Mazz Swift, Eddie Venegas, and J Lin, commissioned with the support of a 2024 Chamber Music America Artistic Projects grant. Each of the pieces on the program evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the

unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.

PUBLIQuartet’s 2024 CMA Artistic Projects grant is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.