Public Programs

Echos of the Riot: A Sound Performance with Cody Perkins and V.C.R

August 6, 2025
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

In Collaboration With

California African American Museum

To celebrate the exhibition’s final month, artists Cody Perkins and V.C.R will guide participants through an improvisational reflection on J. Yolande Daniels: To A Future Space-Time. The meditative performance explores the temporality and bass of Perkins’s composition “The Riot,” featured in two works in the exhibition. “The Riot” is considered as a form, technology, and meditative practice. Please bring a yoga mat or blanket.

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Speakers

Cody Perkins or Algorythm.Code is a Los Angeles Native, Composer, Producer, and interdisciplinary artist. He studied classical piano, voice, dance, and electronic music at Alexander Hamilton Music Academy in Los Angeles California. He has composed pieces for various ballet companies and partnered with performance artists, choreographers, and fashion designers to create soundscapes or scores for various projects. His work has been published in publications such as Vogue, Vice, and Office Magazine and has been featured at Art Basel, Outfest, and Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier Gallery.

V.C.R, born Veronica Camille Ratliff, is a world-class multidisciplinary singer/songwriter, composer, violinist, and published author. The Memphis-bred recording artist blends cathartic lyrics combined with her powerhouse vocals that entrance the listener and leaves them breathless. As a storyteller, this transcendental soul-singer uses amalgamations of her rich southern gospel roots and classical orchestral training to produce songs rooted in vulnerability and truth.

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