Bang on a Can: 25 Years
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 7:00
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Gamelan Galak Tika
Evan Ziporyn, director
Ziporyn: Tire Fire
Asphalt Orchestra with special guest Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), drums
Zappa: Zomby Woof
Yoshida: Stara Planina; Bupphairodazz; Zwimbarrac Khafzavrapp (world premiere)
Bang on a Can All-Stars with Mira Calix, Christian Marclay, Nick Zammuto
Field Recordings (U.S. premiere)
Wolfe: Reeling
Ghys: An Open Cage
Marclay: Fade to Slide
Calix: meeting you seemed easy
Gordon: gene takes a drink
Lang: unused swan
Ziporyn: Wargasari
Braxton: Casino Trem
Zammuto: Real Beauty Turns
In 1987, Bang on a Can came into existence in a SoHo art gallery with a marathon festival of mostly unknown music. In the 25 years since then, it has grown into a veritable new-music institution, touted by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the country’s most important vehicle for contemporary music.” In celebration of Bang on a Can’s 25th birthday—and its long history of performing here—Lincoln Center presents this landmark three-part evening.
Bang on a Can: 25 Years opens with Tire Fire, a blend of ancient tradition and modern technology, and the signature piece of Gamelan Galak Tika. The irrepressible Asphalt Orchestra, an offshoot of Bang on a Can, will then perform a piece by Frank Zappa and three works by composer-drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, founder and primary force behind the progressive rock duo Ruins. The evening closes with Field Recordings, a major new nine-composer multimedia project that uses film, found sound, and archival audio and video to build a bridge between the seen and unseen, the here and the absent, the present and the past.