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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 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.
The New York Times
By Allan Kozinn
Like most composers, Julia Wolfe is often in two places at once psychically: working on new pieces (with working defined as anything from cogitating and experimenting to actually putting the notes on paper) but also seeing that the backlist is getting attention. In recent weeks she has been putting the finishing touches on “Iron Maiden,” a new solo work for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and working on “Combat de Boxe,” for the Asko Ensemble of the Netherlands…
continue readingSaturday, 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
Believing and Field Recordings performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Tongyeong International Music Festival
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars at the Tongyeong International Music Festival
Saturday, July 30, 2016
‘Tell me everything’ performed by Bang on a Can Summer Festival fellows
North Adams, MA