Bang on a Can NYC Marathon: May 31st-June 1st

[jules]

This year's Bang on a Can Marathon (co-presented by the River to River Festival and arts>World Financial Center) will be taking place at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City from 6pm on May 31st through 6am on June 1st.

SIGNAL performing Steve Reich's Daniel Variations.

Crash premiering a new work by Arnold Dreyblatt (This piece will also be featured on Dreyblatt's forthcoming Cantaloupe Music release).

Alarm Will Sound performing the Beatles' Revolution #9.

Contact Contemporary Music performing Brian Eno's Discreet Music.

Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy performing a new piece with Bang on a Can All-Stars

And be sure not to miss a special sunrise performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung by Toby Twining Music.

This year's Marathon will feature music by John Adams, The Beatles, Harrison Birtwistle, Caleb Burhans, Chaya Czernowin, Dan Deacon, Donnacha Dennehy, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sivan Cohen Elias, Brian Eno, Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Karsh Kale, David Lang, Lukas Ligeti, Owen Pallett, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Ruben Seroussi, Marnie Stern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Julia Wolfe, Bora Yoon, Pamela Z and Evan Ziporyn, and performances by Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Caleb Burhans, Hartt Basses, Contact Contemporary Music, Crash Ensemble, Dan Deacon, Karsh Kale, Lisa Moore, Ensemble Nikel, Owen Pallett, Signal, So Percussion, Marnie Stern, Toby Twining Music, Bora Yoon, Young People's Chorus of NYC, Pamela Z, and more!

[Ren]

Man. I wish I could afford to go to New York. Someone please go and take videos!

[jules]

I'd like to go for everything else, let alone OP being there.

Alarm Will Sound performing the Beatles' Revolution #9 sound along caught me interest.

[Ren]

AND Steve Reich and Michael Gordon! Man. MAN.

[jules]

From the FF website:

Owen will be premiering a piece to be performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars called "Twelve Polearms"

I hope someone is able to provide a listening

[exitsign]

my fingers are very much crossed for recording to surface from this.

[legauxiliary]

I'll try to get a video of it or something, or maybe have one of my friends bring a laptop to try to record it with.

He's also performing on his own, I think.

[jules]

Blooming..fires on the server and thank god it's all over now.

So how did the banging on those can things go the over day? I couldn't make it so I went to see Paul Macca instead.

[jules]

so NY Times said..
"Of greater general appeal was Owen Pallett, a Canadian singer and violinist whose work under the name Final Fantasy mixes swords-and-sorcery imagery with a vulnerable gay sensibility. Mr. Pallett played three of his songs during a powerful 10 p.m. set by the Bang on a Can All-Stars. He then joined the group in “Twelve Polearms,” a fanciful commissioned work that wavered between sweetness and suspense".

[rue]

I want sweetness and suspense.

[jufro]

anybody got a recording of it?

[moiety12]

I couldn’t make it out to “Bang On A Can”
but was quite intrigued

here is all I could find:

Owen’s Intro to his Twelve Polearms

boomp3.com/listen/b8j76lh/owen-explains-twelve-polearms

Owen, amazing, as always

[Thomas]

I guess thats the other universe hes tried to create on the eps and lp.

I WISH THIS EXISTED

[jufro]

all that recording did is make me really really want to hear twelve polearms

[jules]

I found a couple of snaps on a blog