Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted
contemporary classical music
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organization based in
New York City
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. It was founded in 1987 by three
American
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composers who remain its artistic directors:
Julia Wolfe,
David Lang, and
Michael Gordon. Called "the country's most important vehicle for contemporary music" by the ''
San Francisco Chronicle
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'',
the organization focuses on the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide.
Notable performances
Bang on a Can is perhaps best known for its Marathon Concerts,
during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members, who are encouraged to maintain a "jeans-and-tee-shirt informality," are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty-six hours of uninterrupted music at the
World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium in New York City.
Among Bang on a Can's early events were performances by
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading f ...
, premieres of
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’s epic symphonies for massed electric guitars, and fully staged operas by
Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century com ...
, featuring the composer's original instruments.
Programs
Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA
In 2002, Bang on a Can began the yearly Summer Institute of Music,
a program at the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) for young composers and performers. This program is sometimes referred to by the nickname "Banglewood" in reference to the nearby but far more traditional
Tanglewood Music Festival
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts.
The festival consists of a series of concerts, including symphonic music, c ...
.
Staged Works
The three artistic directors occasionally collaborate by jointly composing large staged works, often without revealing which sections each contributed. Examples include:
* ''The Carbon Copy Building'' - a "comic book opera" with words and drawings by
MacArthur Grant recipient
Ben Katchor. It was the winner of the 2000
Obie Award
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for Best Production.
[List of 2000 Obie Award Winners]
Village Voice
* ''Lost Objects'' - a contemporary oratorio, with a libretto by
Deborah Artman
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. It is a fusion of
baroque music
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and modern soundscapes, rendered in performance by the
original instruments
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ensemble
Concerto Köln
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The group formed in 1985, one of many groups associated with the surging interest in period instruments in that decade. Its members consisted mainly o ...
with four electronic instruments, three solo vocalists, a choir, and a live
remix
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generated by
DJ Spooky.
[''EUROPE: FESTIVALS 2001'']
''The New York Times
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'', Travel Section, March 11, 2001
* ''The New Yorkers'' - a staged multimedia concert with additional contributions by filmmakers and visual artists including: Ben Katchor,
Bill Morrison,
Doug Aitken
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, and
William Wegman.
* ''Shelter'' - a multi-media work that, in the words of librettist Deborah Artman, "evokes the power and threat of nature, the soaring frontier promise contained in the framing of a new house, the pure aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the sweet architecture of sound and the uneasy vulnerability that underlies even the safety of our sleep."
People's Commissioning Fund (PCF)
Bang on a Can has commissioned and premiered pieces by composers including
Steve Reich
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,
Terry Riley
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,
Michael Nyman
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,
John Adams
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,
Somei Satoh
is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music.
His musical career began with an experimental, mix media group called "Tone Field" in Tokyo. He studied at ...
,
Iva Bittová,
Roberto Carnevale,
Ornette Coleman
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,
Donnacha Dennehy
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and
Bun-Ching Lam
Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor.
Early life and training
Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the Un ...
. In 1998 the organization began the People's Commissioning Fund,
which supports the creation of new musical compositions by pooling contributions from numerous member-commissioners whose donations range from $5 to $5,000.
List of PCF commissioned composers
*1998
Virgil Moorefield
Virgil Moorefield (born August 9, 1956) is a composer and intermedia artist based in Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Moorefield's work focuses primarily on live acoustic performance, electronic processing of acoustic signals, and live visual music ("Fi ...
,
Pamela Z
Pamela Z (born 1956) is an American composer, performer, and media artist who is best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance, she combines various vocal sounds including operatic bel canto, experimental ext ...
,
Dan Plonsey
*2000
Marc Mellits
Marc Mellits (born 1966) is an American composer and musician.
Mellits was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1984 to 1988, at the Yale School of Music from 1989 to 1991, at Cornell University from 19 ...
,
Edward Ruchalski,
Miya Masaoka
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,
Toby Twining
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*2001
Jeffrey Brooks
Jeffrey Brooks (born 1956) is an American composer living in Minneapolis. Brooks composed the popular work ''Dreadnought'' (for wind ensemble) as well as several works for Bang on a Can.
Brooks holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and ...
,
Sussan Deyhim
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,
James Fei
James Fei or Fei Cheng-ting (; born Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a contemporary classical music and electronic music composer and performer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He plays the soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones, bass clar ...
,
Keeril Makan
*2002
Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist.Woodard, Josef"A Bird’s Eye, a Wonderer’s ...
,
John King,
Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist, composer, and bandleader.
Early life and education
Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford B ...
*2003
Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939, in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. She has a ...
,
Ingram Marshall,
Thurston Moore
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*2005
Cynthia Hopkins
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Performance work
She has written, composed, and performed five works of performance ...
,
Carla Kihlstedt
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She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (1997, ...
,
J.G. Thirlwell
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...
*2006
Yoav Gal,
Annie Gosfield,
John Hollenbeck
*2007
Stefan Weisman,
Joshua Penman,
Lukas Ligeti
Lukas Ligeti (born in Vienna, Austria, 13 June 1965) is an Austrian-American composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics, especially African traditional and popular music s ...
*2008
Tristan Perich
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Perich received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2004 and went on to earn a master's degree from New York Un ...
,
Erdem Helvacioglu,
Ken Thomson
*2009
Kate Moore,
Lok Yin Tang[''Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Concert''](_blank)
WNYC New Sounds, March 19, 2009
* 2010
Oscar Bettison
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,
Nik Baertsch,
Christine Southworth
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,
Dave Longstreth
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(of
Dirty Projectors
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)
*2011
Bryce Dessner
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(of
The National),
Karsh Kale
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,
Nick Brooke[Full audio of WNYC broadcast of the 2011 PCF concert at Merkin Hall]
hosted by John Schaefer, Wqxr.org, February 13, 2011
*2012
Mira Calix
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Although her earlier music is almost ...
,
Florent Ghys,
Christian Marclay
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,
Nick Zammuto
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(of
The Books
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)
*2013
Anna Clyne
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Biography
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,
Dan Deacon
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Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major element of the pe ...
,
Jóhann Jóhannsson
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,
Paula Matthusen
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Biography
Paula Matthusen was born in 1978 in Arizona. She attended ...
[''Live Webcast from Merkin Concert Hall's 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival''](_blank)
WQXR, hosted by John Schaefer, February 07, 2013
*2014
Glenn Kotche
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Prior to w ...
,
Jace Clayton (aka DJ/rupture),
Ben Frost
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Life
Born in Melbourne, Australia, and based in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 2005, Frost composes minimalist, instrumenta ...
*2015
Caroline Shaw
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,
Gabriella Smith,
Zhang Shouwang
*2016
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
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Juan Felipe Waller Nico Muhly
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]
Bang on a Can All-Stars
The Bang on a Can All-Stars is an amplified sextet formed by its parent organization in 1992. The All-Stars tour internationally and have received awards and public recognition for their work in the contemporary classical music
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field.[
The instrumentation of the Bang on a Can All-Stars is ]clarinet
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Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitch ...
, cello
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, electric guitar
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, piano
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/keyboard, percussion
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, double bass
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. Current members include Robert Black, Vicky Chow, David Cossin, Arlen Husklo, Mark Stewart and Ken Thomson.
Asphalt Orchestra
Asphalt Orchestra is Bang on a Can's 12-piece marching band. The ensemble's premiere performance was in 2009 at the Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 milli ...
Out of Doors festival, and featured new commissioned works by Tyondai Braxton (of experimental rock
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group Battles
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), Goran Bregovic, and Stew
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and Heidi Rodewald, alongside arrangements of songs by Björk
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, Meshuggah
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, Mingus
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, Nancarrow, and Zappa.
''The New York Times
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'' has called Asphalt Orchestra's members "12 top-notch brass and percussion players", and praised their performance as "coolly brilliant and infectious."
Found Sound Nation
An independent project founded in 2009 and produced by Bang on a Can, Found Sound Nation (FSN) engages at-risk youth and underrepresented communities producing original audio and video projects across the globe in economically disparate settings. The work of FSN emphasizes a mobile, accessible, collaborative way of recording and producing professional quality music, a technique developed by combining the art music traditions of Bang on a Can with traditions of musique concrète
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, hip hop, and contemporary composition.
FSN has led site-specific projects in New York City, India, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland and Haiti.
In 2012, the project received an award from the U.S. Department of State to produce OneBeat, an international music exchange which will bring together innovative musicians from around the world to compose, produce and perform original music.
Found Sound Nation was co-founded by Christopher Marianetti and Jeremy Thal. The project is directed by Marianetti, Thal and Elena Moon Park.
Recordings
In the past, Bang on a Can released recordings on Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Sony Classical, Point Music (Universal), and Nonesuch, but now the majority of its recordings are found on its own record label, Cantaloupe Music
Cantaloupe Music is a Brooklyn-based record label that produces and releases contemporary classical music and other forms of avant-garde music. The label was founded in 2001 by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Kenny Savelson. Gordo ...
. In addition to releasing works by Gordon, Wolfe, and Lang, the label releases CDs of music by composers and musical groups affiliated with the organization, including Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn h ...
, Phil Kline
Phil Kline (born 1953) is an American composer, sound artist, and performer most recognized for his ''Unsilent Night'' (1992) and ''Zippo Songs'' (2004). Beginning as a guitarist and singer in the New York City art punk scene, Kline has since g ...
, Alarm Will Sound
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, Icebreaker
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, Ethel
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, Gutbucket, R. Luke DuBois
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, and Don Byron
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Biography
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among many, many others.
Below is a partial discography of released works performed by Bang on a Can:
Bang on a Can discography
* ''Bang on a Can Live, volume 1'' (1992)
* ''Bang on a Can Live, volume 2'' (1993)
* ''Bang on a Can Live, volume 3'' (1994)
* ''Industry'' (1995)
* ''Cheating, Lying, Stealing'' (1996)
* '' Music for Airports'' (composed by Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop a ...
) (1998)
* ''Renegade Heaven'' (2001)
* ''Lost Objects'' (2001)
* ''In C'' (composed by Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for ...
) (2001)
* ''Bang on a Can Classics'' (2002)
* ''Gigantic Dancing Human Machine'' (music of Louis Andriessen
Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Althoug ...
) (2003)
* ''ShadowBang'' (composed by Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn h ...
) (2003)
* ''Music in Fifths / Two Pages'' (composed by Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive ...
) (2004)
* ''Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
; born 1964) is a modern Burmese traditional musician who is trying to bring this music to the world stage. He is a master of the pat waing or ''saing waing'', a traditional Burmese drum-circle instrument; the player sits in the middle of a horse ...
'' (2004)
* ''Elida'' (composer and guest musician Iva Bittová) (2005)
* ''A Ballad for Many'' (composer and guest musician Don Byron
Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer.
Biography
His mother w ...
) (2006)
* ''The Essential Martin Bresnick
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Education and early career
Bresnick grew up in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music an ...
'' (2006)
* ''The Carbon Copy Building'' (2007)
* ''Music for Airports (Live)'' (2008)
* ''Music from the Film (Untitled)'' (2009)
* ''Double Sextet / 2x5'' (music of Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, ...
) (2010)
* ''Big Beautiful Dark and Scary'' (2012)
* ''Shelter'' (Ensemble Signal) (2013)
* ''Field Recordings'' (2015)
See also
*List of experimental music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of experimental music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on experimental music. Experimental music is a compositional tradition that arose in the mid-20th century, particularly in North Ame ...
References
External links
Bang on a Can official website
Asphalt Orchestra official website
Found Sound Nation official website
Art of the States: Bang on a Can Festival
Art of the States: Bang on a Can All-Stars
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Contemporary classical music ensembles
Musical groups established in 1987
Musical groups from New York City
Experimental music festivals