Long Play

BOMB Magazine and Bang on a Can present a series of artist-driven conversations live at The Center for Fiction. Bringing together artists from different disciplines with unique approaches to artistry, this conversation series centers the artmaking process and invites us to explore new ways of finding common ground. This talk brings together cellist/composer Zoë Keating and bassist/composer Brandon Lopez.

Zoe’s website

Brandon’s website

BOMB Magazine and Bang on a Can present a series of artist-driven conversations live at The Center for Fiction. Bringing together artists from different disciplines with unique approaches to artistry, this conversation series centers the artmaking process and invites us to explore new ways of finding common ground. This talk brings together musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings Khyam Allami and theorist, journalist, curator, and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. (Speaker Music).

Kyam Allami’s website

DeForrest Brown (Speaker Music) on Bandcamp

Titus Underwood is a force, and Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra plus the 2021 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence award. On LONG PLAY, Titus performs works by James Lee III and the in-person premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Six Riffs After Ovid commissioned by Bang on a Can for its online “pandemic solos.”

Brooklyn-born tubist extraordinaire Marcus Rojas is best known for his work in jazz, playing with the likes of Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, and his own trio Spanish Fly but also with with a long list of classical and pop artists including The New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, Paul Simon, Sting and more. For Long Play Marcus performs a solo set entitled “Neither from here nor there” with music by Cole Davis, Henry Threadgill, and Marcus Rojas. You will also find him playing with the Bang on a Can Orchestra in Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” the culminating performance at LONG PLAY in the BAM Opera House.

Based in both Troy, NY and Nashville, TN, bassoonist Maya Stone is a woodwind wonder woman. A lifelong advocate for new works, she has commissioned and premiered new solo works for bassoon ranging from contemporary, classical, gospel, and the in-between. She will be performing a work by Molly Herron, commissioned by Bang on a Can for its online “pandemic solos,” and works by Adolphus Hailstork, Tonia Ko and David Lang. You will also find her playing with the Bang on a Can Orchestra in Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” the culminating performance at LONG PLAY in the BAM Opera House.

Join Bang on a Can founders and artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe as they share the music that inspires them.

This listening party and conversation is for VIP ticket holders.

Cellist Iva Casian-Lakos is known for both her virtuosity and interdisciplinary versatility from classical cello to boundary-stretching new works, involving choreography, singing, acting, improvisation, and more. Composer Joan La Barbara puts her unique skills to work with ad astra and a trail of indeterminate light for Iva to perform on cello and voice.

eddy kwon is a composer, performer, singer, violinist.  She is a collaborator with musicians who cross all musical boundaries.  Kwon’s songs weave together quirky combinations of delicate word play and fierce fiddling.

BOMB Magazine and Bang on a Can present a series of artist-driven conversations live at The Center for Fiction. Bringing together artists from different disciplines with unique approaches to artistry, this conversation series centers the artmaking process and invites us to explore new ways of finding common ground. This talk brings together vocalist, composer, and bandleader Amirtha Kidambi and composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z.\

Amirtha’s website

Pamela’s website