The 27th annual Bang on a Can Marathon takes place this Sunday once again at the World Financial Center Wintergarden, featuring performances from a variety of ensembles spanning the music spectrum. This year, there's a particular focus on vocal music, with Anonymous 4, Roomful of Teeth, Meredith Monk and Theo Bleckmann all making appearances during the eight hour event. And, of course, the Bang on a Can All Stars will be on hand to perform music by Louis Andriessen, Paula Matthusen, JG Thirwell and BOAC Co-Founder Julia Wolfe. Oh, and it's free.
Complete lineup with set times below.
2pm
Great Noise Ensemble
Carlos Carrillo: De la brevedad de la vida
Armando Bayolo: Caprichos
Adrianna Mateo, violin
Molly Joyce: Lean Back and Release
Great Noise Ensemble
Marc Mellits: Machine V from 5 Machines
Bearthoven
Brooks Frederickson: Undertoad
Anonymous 4
David Lang: love fail (selections)
4pm
Dawn of Midi
Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni: Excerpt from Dysnomia
Roomful of Teeth
Judd Greenstein: AEIOU
Caroline Shaw: Allemande and Sarabande from Partita for 8 Voices
Contemporaneous
Andrew Norman: Try
Meredith Monk & Theo Bleckmann
Meredith Monk: Facing North
6pm
Jherek Bischoff & Contemporaneous
Jherek Bischoff: Works TBA
Meredith Monk, Theo Bleckmann, & friends
Meredith Monk: Panda Chant II from The Games
Jace Clayton, electronics; David Friend, Emily Manzo, piano; Arooj Aftab, voice
Julius Eastman and Jace Clayton: Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner
Bang on a Can All-Stars
JG Thirlwell: Anabiosis
Paula Matthusen: ontology of an echo
Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark & Scary
8pm
So Percussion
Bryce Dessner: Music for Wood and Strings
Bang on a Can All-Stars & friends
Louis Andriessen: Hoketus
Mantra Percussion
Michael Gordon: Timber
PLUS Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation will be hosting its Street Studio – a mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music.