Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present For Living Lovers, a duo with guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Stomu Takeishi.
Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi are both longtime veterans of New York City’s creative music scene. Over the course of their long collaboration, the duo have developed a unique dialogue and timbral language for guitar and bass. For Living Lovers’s music poses questions—physical, philosophical, and sonic—all while inviting the listener to participate in an intimate conversation.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a double bill by cellist Issei Herr and drummer/producer Matt Evans at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up for Percussion Quartet at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
Drummer and composer Tomas Fujiwara’s “Dream Up,” is a suite for percussion quartet, featuring vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe, percussionist Tim Keiper, and Fujiwara on drums.
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present tombstar at our a monthly series of live performances in the Museum’s garden and galleries. Free with museum admission.
tombstar is a new ensemble comprising improvisers, composer-performers, and interdisciplinary artists from Brooklyn and Detroit who explore the collective subconscious through improvisation, composition, and joyful experimentation.
Miriam Elhajli is an interdisciplinary improviser questioning along the fringes of song, folklore, and eco-poetics, living between Brooklyn and New Orleans. She works as an archivist at the Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax & is currently producing various records to be released on her independent label Numina Records dedicated to documenting revolutionary women, song and poetics.
Free with admission; advance reservations recommended. Masks are required inside the Museum.
In the outdoor sculpture garden, Ned Rothenberg will present original and traditional solo work for shakuhachi, the end blown Japanese bamboo flute. He will also perform works on the clarinet and alto saxophone, which are informed by his travels back and forth to Japan throughout the last 35 years.
Free with admission; advance reservations recommended. Masks are required inside the Museum.
Photo of Ned by Lois Ellison
Celebrating the twelfth season of collaboration, Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present a monthly concert series in the Museum’s garden and galleries in June through September.
July’s program is a double bill featuring eddy kwon and Iva Casian Lakos performing works by Joan La Barbara.
Free with admission; advance reservations recommended. Masks are required indoors.
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Bang on a Can launches our 2022 season in partnership with the Noguchi museum on June 19 with a performance by Dawuna!
This event is free with museum admission. Masks are required indoors.
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Lee Ranaldo presents a special performance of his Hurricane Transcriptions with electric guitar quartet Dither and drummer Brian Chase.
Doors at 6:15 pm / music begins at 6:30 pm. Masks and proof of vaccination are required for entry. Tickets allow access to the Museum garden and galleries during the performance.
photo by Andrew Boyle
Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum present the next concert in our Artists at Noguchi season – L’Rain! Brooklyn native Taja Cheek (aka L’Rain) has quickly become an acclaimed figure in New York experimental music. A multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist, her songs are equally rooted in r&b, jazz, noise, and pop, at once visceral, spiritual, ethereal, and urgent.
