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ICYMI: Head over to our YouTube channel to watch the full-length video for Mathew Rosenblum's gorgeous and haunting ‘We Lived Happily During the War,’ featuring soprano Jamie Jordan with Talujon Percussion, and directed by Four/Ten Media.
Welcome to the weekend! 🎶
NOW STREAMING on all digital platforms: https://lnk.to/we-lived-happilyVideo produced and directed by FOUR/TEN MEDIAWe Lived Happily During the War (2021) is...
Join us TONIGHT: You don't want to miss the release party for Jason Treuting's GO PLACIDLY WITH HASTE at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn. Featuring members of So Percussion and some very special guests, this is just the event you need to make it through the rest of the short week with some positive energy!
BUY TICKETS • Don't miss the record release concert and bash at ShapeShifter Lab in its brand new location on Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, celebrating the...
Next Wednesday (May 29): Come celebrate with us at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn for the release of Jason Treuting's GO PLACIDLY WITH HASTE, with special guests Cenk Ergun, Clara Warnaar, Amy Garapic, Grey McMurray, Beth Meyers and members of So Percussion!
A freewheeling and vivid tapestry of moods, styles and genres, this sprawling project is years in the making, and features an A-list of collaborators whose vocal and instrumental chops propel the music into thrilling new sonic territory that channels elements of pop, classical, improv, electronica and plenty more.
"The process of making GO PLACIDLY WITH HASTE has been multifold," Treuting says, "and each step has really revolved around people. It seems to me that the collaborators always exert a huge influence on my music. In this case, the goal was to make music reflective of the people I was working with, while also being able to reflect others who will play it in the future. That's a lasting goal of mine."
Limited tickets to this exclusive release event are still available at the link below (and if you can't make the show, stream the album on your favorite platform, or buy the beautiful double-vinyl gatefold package, designed by DM Stith, from our Bandcamp store).
See you there 🎶
BUY TICKETS • Don't miss the record release concert and bash at ShapeShifter Lab in its brand new location on Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, celebrating the...
Cantaloupe fans are already familiar with Vicky Chow's acclaimed recording of the Glass Etudes for solo piano (Book 1).
This Sunday at Roulette in Brooklyn, she tackles Book 2 in preparation for a new recording. As reviewed in The Wire, Vicky “...brings to this now familiar set of studies by Philip Glass the kind of expressive sensitivity that allows them to flourish. In her hands, these pieces far transcend their ostensible status as technical exercises.”
Don't miss your chance to experience this exquisite music performed live by a singular and “outstanding interpreter of contemporary compositions for piano.” Congrats Vicky!
Roulette Intermedium
Sunday, May 12, 2024
8:00 pm
$25 advance | $30 doors
https://vickychow.bandcamp.com/album/philip-glass-piano-etudes-book-1
https://roulette.org/event/vicky-chow-performs-philip-glass-etudes-book-2/
Pianist Vicky Chow performs Philip Glass's Piano Etudes Book 2 in celebration of her upcoming album release.
We're still reeling from this past weekend's edition of Long Play, bookended by these two performances by Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective to open the festivities on Friday night, and Deerhoof to close them on Sunday.
Much respect to the entire team at Bang on a Can and all the participating Brooklyn venues this year. We can't wait until the next one!
NYC! The Mantra Percussion tour of the city's resonant spaces starts *today* with three open-air performances of Michael Gordon's breakthrough percussion work TIMBER. Today's schedule:
3PM - Castle Clinton (Manhattan)
Built to defend against the British Navy during the War of 1812 - Castle Clinton’s acoustics are historic.
6PM - Federal Hall (Manhattan)
The Federal Hall Rotunda! George Washington was inaugurated here — the overtones in this building are legendary.
8:30PM - DUMBO Archway (Brooklyn)
The DUMBO Archway under the Manhattan Bridge is one of NYC's truly unique spaces. for years Water St. ran through the Archway — we turn it into a surprise bandshell.
For more info, visit https://www.resonant-spaces.org or check out The New York Times preview below.
You can also stream or order Mantra's live recording and remixes of TIMBER (on CD or vinyl) here: https://lnk.to/timber_remixed
The composer Michael Gordon and members of Mantra Percussion tested the piece “Timber” in resonant spaces around the city. Here is what they learned.
Join us at Long Play, May 3-5 to hear WORLD PREMIERES from Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and others!!! It a galaxy of fresh sounds by composers and performers from around the corner and around the world. Maybe some from another world!
Check out all kinds of info on new and fresh works at Long Play here:
https://bangonacan.cmail20.com/t/y-e-xuydkhk-iutjdljuty-s/
They’re quaking in NYC today over the preorder announcement for Jason Treuting’s new star-studded project GO PLACIDLY WITH HASTE. Featuring collabs with So Percussion, Sam Amidon, Angélica Negrón, Iarla O'Lionaird and more, it’s out on double vinyl May 10th!
14 track album
AVAILABLE NOW: In case you missed it last Friday, Alex Weiser's gorgeous new recording 'in a dark blue night' is streaming on all digital services! Get your ears on it today, or order the CD from our Bandcamp page:
Listen to In a Dark Blue Night by Alex Weiser, Various Artists.
TONIGHT: Join us online for a special preview of Alex Weiser's new recording 'in a dark blue night,' hosted by the Tenement Museum of NYC's Lower East Side. More info:
Join us and YIVO on March 26th for a night of musical performances celebrating the release of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Alex Weiser’s new album.
Reasons to be cheerful: On Tuesday April 16, The Town Hall presents Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, together on stage for the first time, to perform the music of Moondog. And with special guests Marissa Nadler, Joan As Police Woman, Karen Mantler and David Byrne, this promises to be a celebration like no other!
More info and tickets here: https://thetownhall.org/event/kronos-quartet-and-ghost-train-orchestra-play-moondog
Coming soon: ‘in a dark blue night’ is composer Alex Weiser’s love letter to NYC, and the follow-up to his critically acclaimed song cycle ‘and all the days were purple’ (a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist). You can preorder the CD and stream “Coney Island,” featuring mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen, on our Bandcamp page now!
Available March 29, with an exclusive pre-launch event on March 28 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in NYC 🎶
12 track album
TONIGHT at The Jewish Museum in NYC: the Bang on a Can All-Stars play the music of Philip Glass. Doors 7PM, tickets $22. We'll see you there!
The Jewish Museum is dedicated to the enjoyment, understanding, and preservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the Jewish people.
Folks, it's GRAMMY weekend, so cross your fingers and toes for David T. Little, Anne Waldman and Timur and The Dime Museum in the Best Opera Recording category, and let's bring this one home!
https://davidtlittle.bandcamp.com/album/black-lodge
To our NYC fans: For two nights only this weekend, David Lang's beloved ‘the little match girl passion’ will be performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by the very same singers who recorded it for release in November (available on vinyl and CD, by the way — please visit our Bandcamp page).
And both performances are FREE with museum admission! 🎶
Details Molly Netter, sopranoKate Maroney, altoGene Stenger, tenorDashon Burton, bass David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion, based on a Hans Christian Andersen story and modeled after Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, has become a beloved Met holiday tradition over the last...
See you TONIGHT at National Sawdust for the world premiere of Matt McBane's new work TOPOGRAPHY, featuring Ashley Bathgate and Mantra Percussion! 🎶
Composer and electronic musician Matt McBane returns to National Sawdust to present Topography, the “terrestrial companion” to 2022’s aquatic Bathymetry, written for cellist Ashley Bathgate and percussion sextet Mantra Percussion with an opening set from cellist Ashley Bathgate.
In a streamlined update to one of the centerpiece tracks from 2022’s critically lauded BATHYMETRY (hailed by none other than the beloved indie rock band Wilco as an “album of the year”), synthesist and composer Matt McBane drops “Groundswell (single edit).” Scored for two drum sets (panned left and right), Moog synthesizer, vibraphone and tam-tam, the groove-bending workout suggests electro-acoustic references as far-flung as Eno, Ferrari and Kraftwerk, and offers an immediately accessible window into a sonic environment of interlocking patterns, hyper-dynamics and ecstatic meditation.
Released in celebration of two upcoming performances of BATHYMETRY and two performances of its companion piece TOPOGRAPHY – dates in the graphic.
https://mattmcbane.bandcamp.com/track/groundswell-single-edit
This Saturday November 18, we hope you'll join Ghost Train Orchestra for an enchanted evening at Roulette in Brooklyn to celebrate the music of Moondog. Special guest vocalists include Joan As Police Woman and Karen Mantler, as well as one *very* special surprise guest (you'll just have to be there to find out!).
Tickets are going fast: https://roulette.org/event/ghost-train-orchestra-plays-moondog/
OUT TODAY on all platforms (and available on CD and LP): an all-new recording of David Lang's ‘the little match girl passion,’ with bonus tracks!
In producing an update of his Pulitzer-winning work, composer David Lang sought to deliver “...a leaner version of the piece, a more human version, one that emphasizes every breath, and that heightens the individuality of each singer.”
Featuring inspired performances by singers Molly Netter, Kate Maroney, Gene Stenger and Dashon Burton, who are joined by the renowned Trio Mediæval — singing the bonus track “I want to live,” as well as an updated version of “just (after song of songs)” — and Sarah Brailey, performing the album premiere of “let me come in,” this new recording accomplishes everything that Lang set out to explore, opening up fresh vistas of accessibility to a beloved work in modern choral music.
Listen to the little match girl passion by David Lang, Various Artists, Jeffrey Douma.
Get your ears on Rakhi Singh's recording of Julia Wolfe's "LAD" — lauded by The Times and The Sunday Times as "even more intense than the original" — on her new album PURNIMA, out now!
https://lnk.to/purnima
First round voting closes tomorrow! Sandbox Percussion Matt McBane
The estimable Jim Farber weighs in on Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog, for The Guardian. The new album is out THIS FRIDAY on CD, double LP and all streaming services: https://ghosttrainorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/songs-and-symphoniques-the-music-of-moondog
“Despite its grounding in the external world, Moondog’s music has an otherworldly feel, a sense emphasized by his visual presentation. ’Like Sun Ra, Moondog created a cult of personality and a whole mythology around him,’ says Ghost Train Orchestra’s Brian Carpenter. ’There’s a cinematic feel to his music too, like the score to a movie nobody made.’” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/26/moondog-eccentric-musician-songs-and-symphoniques
The eccentric musician, dressed like a Viking playing songs on the streets of New York, is being celebrated by names such as Rufus Wainwright and Jarvis Cocker on a new album
OUT TODAY: Why Spend A Dark Night With You? (ft. Joan As Policewoman)
"There have been times in my life where the only thing I wanted to listen to is Moondog. When nothing makes sense, Moondog’s music does. It feels like a mantra. It feels like he’s tapped into the movement of the planets and the stars — and yes, the moon.
Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra is one of the most alarmingly versatile and wildly creative ensembles in NYC, featuring the best musicians this city has to offer. They are the perfect group to interpret and honor the tradition of Moondog. Max Moston, who I met in my years of playing with Anohni & The Johnsons, created this stirring arrangement for “Why Spend A Dark Night With You?” To me, it feels like a swiftly moving current I’ve slipped into and have begun singing because it felt like the only way to avoid sinking. If that feels a bit uncomfortable, maybe this is Moondog."
17 track album
🔊✨OUT TODAY!🔊✨
Building on the momentum of her spring 2023 release HYMN with pianist Vicky Chow, composer Cassie Wieland’s evocative, vibrant work for granular synthesis and signal-processed solo piano gets an energetic summer remix from percussionist and composer Evan Chapman. Improvising on a drum kit outfitted to trigger samples of Chow's original recording, Chapman taps into what he says was “...a fun feeling to know where you’re headed, but to have to work to discover how you’ll eventually arrive there.”
Listen to HYMN (Evan Chapman remix) by Cassie Wieland, Vicky Chow, Evan Chapman.
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We're still reeling from this past weekend's edition of Long Play, bookended by these two performances by Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective to open the festivities on Friday night, and Deerhoof to close them on Sunday. Much respect to the entire team at Bang on a Can and all the participating Brooklyn venues this year. We can't wait until the next one!
A moment with Vicky Chow performing "Sister" from Cassie Wieland's HYMN
"Which Side Are You On?", the new single from Michael Gordon and Kronos Quartet's upcoming release CAMPAIGN SONGS, is out now! https://lnk.to/MGKQ-which-side Premiered online between October and November 2020, Campaign Songs is a collaboration with Kronos Quartet intended to galvanize voter turnout in the 2020 election. Recorded in isolation by each member of the Quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were accompanied by specially-made video works touching on racial, climate, and economic justice issues, among other topics. The pieces, arranged by Michael Gordon, draw from the canon of American patriotic, political, and folk music, including Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” “God Bless America,” (a campaign song for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his 1940 opponent Wendell Willkie), “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” (a campaign song for James A. Garfield), “America the Beautiful” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” Campaign Songs will be released on 7-inch vinyl. credits
Which Side Are You On? The next single from Michael Gordon's "Campaign Songs" is out 4/28 Pre-orders available now on Bandcamp~ https://michaelgordonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/campaign-songs
For composer Zibuokle Martinaityte, the deep conceals a haunting and hypnotic music that can bring about a feeling of ritual calm; in her words, it inspires a music that can metaphorically “make the darkness visible.” Hadal Zone, written for bass clarinet, tuba, violoncello, contrabass, piano and electronics, is performed by the adventurous Lithuanian ensemble Synaesthesis, and features recorded samples of the San Francisco-based choral group Volti (conducted by Robert Geary). The hour-long work takes its title from the scientific name for the region of the ocean that extends below 6,000 meters, where sunlight can never reach. Available May 5 on CD and all digital platforms. Synaesthesis brings the American premiere of Hadal Zone to Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn on Saturday May 6, as part of Bang on Can's Long Play Festival. Pre-order the album over on bandcamp! https://synaesthesis.bandcamp.com/album/hadal-zone
This Friday: Michael Gordon and Kronos Quartet release "God Bless America," the first single from their upcoming 7-inch EP, Campaign Songs. Premiered online between October and November 2020, Campaign Songs is a collaboration with Kronos Quartet intended to galvanize voter turnout in the 2020 election. Recorded in isolation by each member of the Quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were accompanied by specially-made video works touching on racial, climate, and economic justice issues, among other topics.
Content Warning: This video contains references to suicied and depictions of suicidal thoughts that may trigger and disturb soem viewers. In response to Japan Society’s commission for a new chamber opera, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang combined and reimagined three texts by iconic Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The result is this stunning and haunting monodrama, note to a friend, addressing our eternal human fascinations with death, love, family and suicide. Theater luminary Yoshi Oida, Paris-based opera director and longtime member of Peter Brook’s international theater company, directs this world premiere for the legendary New York vocalist Theo Bleckmann. The musicians are from Japan, and have been selected by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Japan, co-producer of this production. Don’t miss this meetup of international gems! David Lang's latest opera, "Note to a Friend" is being performed this week as part of the Prototype Festival. January 12th and 14th at 7:30pm and again on the Januery 15th at 3pm. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/note-to-a-friend/
Reminder that today is the last day to apply for Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA! Apply now over at https://bangonacan.org/summer_festival/
Happy Bandcamp Friday!! Vicky Chow's recording of Book 1 of Philip Glass's Piano Etudes is out now!! https://listen.lt/VickyChow0zr5A12mx2akDsKZc8 We'll see you all tonight at the release show at Roulette!! Tickets linked below! https://roulette.org/event/vicky-chow-philip-glass-etudes-album-release/
Here's a short clip of Vicky Chow beautifuly balancing being delicate and expansive on Philip Glass's Etude no. 4 at Constellation in Chicago this past weekend! Don't miss her next performance this Friday at Roulette! https://roulette.org/event/vicky-chow-philip-glass-etudes-album-release/
Lisa Moore presents an album of works by Frederic Rzewski - Preorders available now over at https://lisamoore.bandcamp.com/album/frederic-rzewski-no-place-to-go-but-around
Max is feeling the vibe from The Tragedy of Hikikomori Loveless. Check out the full album, FINAL SKIN in the link below https://bakudi-scream.bandcamp.com/album/final-skin
Digging Deep into the back catalogue! Here's a snippet of Michael Gordon's Industry performed by Maya Beiser
☀️🌤⛅️🌥☁️🌦🌧⛈ Here's a clip from Florent Ghys' video for Météos Check out the full video at the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhX244tMKTM
listening to Jason Treuting's Nine Numbers
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Come celebrate the release of Florent Ghys's latest double album, Ritournelles & Mosaïques. Florent is performing works liv this Thursday at Joe's Pub alongside composer and guitarist Kaki King https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/f/florent-ghys/ Ritournelles & Mosaïques available now on all platforms!
CW: FLASHING LIGHTS / STROBE Here's a clip from AIYYER shredding last week in LA! Tune in to The Lot Radio tomorrow night at 6pm or pop by the studio to see it live on Stray Dogs with OHYUNG and an opening DJ set by Yasmin Adele Majeed https://www.thelotradio.com/
@florentghys's Ritournelles & Mosaïques is available ~now~ streaming on all platforms and available for purchase on our bandcamp! https://listen.lt/FgR https://listen.lt/FlorentGhysMosaiques
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