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the loser (2016) 60'
solo baritone, solo piano; perc, va, vc, db
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2016 Next Wave Festival
Bang on a Can All-Stars Premiere Field Recordings
At the Barbican Centre in London, on March 20, 2012, the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere Field Recordings — with new works by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe. The evening-length project that is as much a mystery as a concert – a kind of ghost story. The ghosts aren’t the physical presence of people gone before, but they are the ghosts of sounds, images, ideas, and voices. Each composer has been asked to find and interact with something recorded before, using the power of music made right in front of us to reach out to other things not present…
continue readingDavid Lang Wants to Be More Superficial
In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy organization dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. These days, Lang is an eminence: Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the Yale faculty, and composer in residence at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. Justin Davidson talked with him midway through “collected stories,” a six-concert festival he curated at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and days before the release of his recordinglove/fail…
continue readingRoad Trip (2017) 60'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe
cl, pno, perc, egtr, vc, db
Road Trip was commissioned by BAM for the 2017 Next Wave Festival and by Stephen A. Block, Robert Braun & Joan Friedman, Leslie Lassiter, Raulee Marcus, New Music USA, Maria & Robert A. Skirnick, Jane and Richard Stewart, with additional support from Jerry Eberhardt and Phil Hettema.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Bang on a Can Sound @ Beijing Modern Music Festival
Beijing, China
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Bang on a Can Sound @ Beijing Modern Music Festival
Beijing, China
Saturday, March 29, 2014
‘cheating, lying, stealing’ and Field Recordings performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Tongyeong International Music Festival
Sunday, March 30, 2014
‘sunray’ performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Tongyeong International Music Festival
Saturday, July 30, 2016
‘ark luggage’ performed by Bang on a Can Summer Festival fellows
North Adams, MA