![]() ![]() LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA concludes the 18th annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a professional development program, led by today’s pioneers of experimental music, for young composers and performers selected from an international applicant pool, which runs from July 15-August 4, 2019.Ĭomplete LOUD Weekend line-up, schedule, and additional details to be announced in May.Ībout Bang on a Can: Bang on a Can is dedicated to making music new. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents, and records new work, develops new audiences, and educates the musicians of the future. Bang on a Can is building a world in which powerful new musical ideas flow freely across all genres and borders. ![]() Performances by Gregg August, Vicky Chow, David Cossin, Mark Stewart, Ken Thomson, Brad Lubman, Nick Photinos, Todd Reynolds, Lauren Radnofsky, additional solo sets by Ben Frost, Michael Riesman, and many more.Special guest composers Annie Gosfield, Tristan Perich, Brendon Randall-Myers, plus music by Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and more.Composer-singer-instrument-inventor Lesley Flanigan’s live sonic sculpture.Pioneering composer-singer Pamela Z’s unique blend of operatic bel canto and live digital looping.The just intonation, electric guitar-driven Baltimore band Horse Lords.A hypnotic and other-worldly odyssey solo set by electronic multi-instrumentalist and singer Julianna Barwick.A communal, open-to-the-public, all-ages and skill-levels performance of Sonic Pauline Oliveros’ Mediations.Brian Eno’s pre-ambient classic Discreet Music performed by Contact.Dracula, the timeless, classic, original 1931 film brought to life with Philip Glass’ acclaimed score, featuring Michael Reisman of the Philip Glass Ensemble.The incomparable and outer-planetary Sun Ra Arkestra.Ben Frost’s visceral and maniacal Music for 6 Guitars featuring Ben Frost, Daniel Reimer, Dither Guitar Quartet, and a brass sextet.The electric Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Field Recordings, a major multi-media concert of endless ambient textures, film, and electro-acoustic forays into the future.Highlights of the inaugural Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA include: “12 hours is not enough! We are blowing up the Marathon format so you can feel the full range of revolutionary curiosity in the music world today. Of the new project, which will take place in 2019 at MASS MoCA and in 2020 at MASS MoCA and in New York City, Bang on a Can co-founders and artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe say: LOUD Weekend is an expansion of the long-running Bang on a Can Marathon, tripling Bang on a Can's inclusive and ambitious programming from one day to three days. ![]() Over the three-day period, dozens of concerts will take place in the museum’s vast galleries and throughout its stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues. Friday, August 2 – Sunday, Aug1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, Massachusetts Early Bird Tickets Available Now: 3-Day Pass $60 (for a limited time) 413.662.2111 or For more information: NEW YORK, NEW YORK & NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS - Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA announce the launch of a new, three-day music festival called LOUD Weekend, presented for the first time from Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 4, 2019, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, located in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts (1040 MASS MoCA Way).
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