Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA hourly schedule (subject to change):
Thursday, July 28, 2022: 7:30pm-12:00am (midnight)
7:30pm
BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS play JULIA WOLFE’s Steel Hammer (70’)
[Hunter Center]
9:30pm
JIM JARMUSCH & PHIL KLINE
Composer/guitarist Phil Kline and filmmaker/guitarist Jim Jarmusch pair up to perform a dreamy, semi-improvised electric guitar suite with projected background visuals curated by Jarmusch and featuring early footage from the Thomas Edison Company. (60’)
[Hunter Center]
10:30pm
Opening Night Hang – Everyone’s Invited!
[Chalet]
Friday, July 29, 2022: 12:00pm noon -12:00am midnight
12:00pm
NEWEST VOICES WORLD PREMIERE COMPOSER CONCERT
Music by Kyle Brenn, Erika Dohi, Yaz Lancaster, Dan Langa, Udi Perlman, Samantha Wolf (80’)
[Hunter Center]
2:00pm
PHIL KLINE, Last words before vanishing from the face of the earth (45’)
Outdoor experiential installation for 24 boomboxes
[Joe’s Field]
3:00pm
JEFFREY BROOKS, Stein-o-caster (25’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
3:30pm
GEORGE CRUMB MINI-FEST!
George Crumb, Ancient Voices of Children (28’)
[Hunter Center]
4:15pm
GEORGE CRUMB MINI-FEST!
George Crumb, Eleven Echoes of Autumn (18’), and Vox Balaenae (20’)
[Club B10]
4:30pm
IGOR STRAVINSKY, L’histoire du soldat (25’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
5:15pm
MICHAEL GORDON, Field of Vision (60’)
University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble & Sō Percussion Summer Institute, directed by Doug Perkins
[Courtyard D]
6:45pm
L’RAIN
[Hunter Center]
(60’)
8:00pm
STEVEN SCHICK plays GEORGE LEWIS’ Soundlines: A Dreaming Track (45’), conducted by Brad Lubman
[Club B10]
8:00pm
FLORENT GHYS, Bonjour (45’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
9:15pm
BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS play CAN DANCE – live music, and dance on film (75’)
Josue Collado Fregoso, Joie de Vivre with Marissa, a film by Pioneer Winter | Michael Gordon, July (selections) for solo piano with film by Brian Brooks | Hildur Guðnadóttir, Illimani with Fear of Dog, a film by Andros Zins-Browne | David Lang, interstate with film by Annie-B Parson | Qasim Naqvi: Featureless with film by Kyle Marshall | Angélica Negrón: Turistas with Kookik, a film by Keerati Jinakunwiphat | Henry Threadgill: With or Without Card with Split Womb, a film by Rena Butler | Trevor Weston: Dig it with The Burglar, a film by Jerron Herman | Julia Wolfe: Into the clouds with film by Andrea Miller
[Hunter Center]
10:45pm
GEORGE CRUMB MINI-FEST!
George Crumb, Black Angels (25’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
10:45pm
TYONDAI BRAXTON & GREG FOX
[Club B10]
(60’)
Saturday, July 30, 2022: 12:00-10:30pm
12:00pm
MARILYN NONKEN plays MORTON FELDMAN’s Triadic Memories (75’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
12:00pm
PHONG TRAN
[Chalet]
(60’)
12:30pm
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PERCUSSION QUARTET plays music by Suzanne Farrin, Alexis Lamb, Juri Seo, Ken Thomson
Suzanne Farrin This Mind Made War (8’) | Alexis Lamb Matters/Mind (6’) | Juri Seo Shui (8’) | Ken Thomson Catapult (11’)
[Club B10]
1:30pm
SPOTLIGHT ON TANIA LEÓN
Tania León, Rítmicas (20’) | NICK PHOTINOS plays Tania León’s Four pieces for solo cello (9’)
[Hunter Center]
2:00pm
GANAVYA
[Chalet]
(60’)
2:15pm
SPOTLIGHT ON TANIA LEÓN
VICKY CHOW plays Tania León’s Tumbao (3’), Homenatge (8’), Momentum (6’), and Rituál (6’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
3:15pm
DAVID LANG, death speaks (25’)
[Hunter Center]
3:30pm
PHIL KLINE, Zippo Songs (45’)
Performed by THEO BLECKMANN, DAVID COSSIN, PHIL KLINE, TODD REYNOLDS
[Club B10]
4:00pm
STEVEN SCHICK plays SARAH HENNIES’ Thought Sectors (60’)
[Building 6 Event Space]
4:30pm
YUKA HONDA
[Chalet]
(60’)
6:00pm
STEVE REICH, Different Trains (27’) | MARK STEWART plays Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint (15’)
[Hunter Center]
7:00pm
KELLY MORAN
[Building 6 Event Space]
(60’)
7:30pm
DOUG PERKINS plays ROBERT HONSTEIN’s An Economy of Means (30’)
[Club B10]
7:45pm
INFINITY SHRED
[Chalet]
(60’)
9:00pm
OLGA NEUWIRTH, Die Stadt ohne Juden (“The City without Jews”), conducted by Brad Lubman
featuring Hans Karl Breslauer’s 1924 silent film (87’)
[Hunter Center]
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA concludes the 20th 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 11-27, 2022.
- More info about the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute at MASS MoCA
- More info about MASS MoCA
Check out festival schedules and programming from previous years:
Lead Support for LOUD Weekend and the Summer Festival at MASS MoCA provided by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation and the National Endowment for Arts.
Additional support for the Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA from the the Amphion Foundation, ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Robert Black Foundation Bass Scholarship , Herb Leventer, Henry S. McNeil, Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, SNYK and the Danish Arts Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Williamson Foundation for Music.
Special thanks go out to Drury High School, Conte Middle School, Williams College, and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Concert pianos provided courtesy of Falcetti Pianos