Christian Marclay

PARIS - Jazz, along with cinema and rock music, constitutes one of the major artistic developments of the 20th century. Read More

I didn't do it then, so I'll share my memory now: waking a little after daybreak at the collective's signature new-music marathon in 2008 to the slowly shifting drone of overtone singing. Read More

Bang on a Can 's 25 years have been a story of unending metastasis: from a single marathon concert to a touring ensemble to a summer festival to a commissioning fund to a record label and beyond. Read More

Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra , and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother's Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range of year-round international activities. 25 celebration at Lincoln Center opens with MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika performing its signature piece, Bang on a Can All-Stars founding clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn 's Tire Fire," a blend of ancient tradition and modern technology that The New York Times describes as "an exuberant blast of metal fireworks."Read More