Matana Roberts is a saxophonist, writer, composer, bandleader, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media creator who works in jazz, vanguard composition, dance, poetry, and theater. She is the creator of the multi-volume conceptual work Coin Coin. Commencing in 2006, the projected 12-part work of "panoramic sound quilting," aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining deep and substantive engagements with narrative, history, community, and political expression. The first volume, Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres, appeared in 2011 and was followed by subsequent chapters Mississippi Moonchile and River Run Thee in 2013 and 2015, respectively. After a four-year break during which she performed, taught, and contributed to recordings by others, Roberts returned with Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis in 2019. Following another four years of writing, rehearsal, and travel, she released Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden in 2023.