BROOKLYN, NY — Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival returns to Brooklyn from April 29 through May 3, bringing more than 70 concerts across venues including BRIC, BAM, Roulette Intermedium, Pioneer Works, Public Records, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn Music School, and Fort Greene Park.
The four-day festival features experimental music spanning jazz, contemporary classical, electronic, and avant-garde performance, with events staged in concert halls, churches, parks, and club spaces across the borough.
Opening night features Japanese experimental rock quartet goat at Roulette Intermedium, presenting tightly structured, rhythm-driven compositions built on interlocking percussion and guitar patterns.
Over the following days, the festival includes a mix of world premieres, landmark works, and large-scale collaborations. Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields will be performed with Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir. Steve Reich’s works, including Sextet and Electric Counterpoint, will be presented as part of a birthday marathon featuring multiple ensembles.
Composer Kali Malone’s durational work Does Spring Hide Its Joy will receive its U.S. premiere with Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley, while Morton Feldman’s string quartets and vocal works appear in multiple performances marking the composer’s centennial.
Outdoor programming includes John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground, performed in Fort Greene Park by a 40-member wind, brass, and percussion ensemble. The festival also features community-centered events, including free performances and roundtable discussions.
Jazz and improvised music figure prominently throughout the schedule. Performers include Billy Hart, Kris Davis, Wadada Leo Smith, Sylvie Courvoisier, Matthew Shipp, David Murray, and Steve Lehman, alongside younger experimental ensembles and cross-genre collaborations.
Electronic and club-oriented programming includes sets from Oneohtrix Point Never, Matmos, Sam Prekop, Colleen, and Gaby D’Annunzio, staged at venues such as Public Records and Pioneer Works.
Organizers describe Long Play as a citywide listening experience designed to move between genres, disciplines, and performance environments. Events are ticketed individually or accessed through multi-day passes, with some free public programming in parks and community spaces.
The festival runs through May 3. Purchase tickets here.
8:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Japanese quartet goat (jp) brings tightly structured, rhythm-driven experimental rock blending micro-precision composition with live improvisation.
Performers: goat (jp)
7:00 p.m.
Public Records (Upstairs)
A listening event revisiting Lee “Scratch” Perry’s final Berlin collaboration with Mouse on Mars, blending dub, glitch, and electronic experimentation.
Performers: Mouse on Mars, Lee “Scratch” Perry recordings
8:00 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Brooklyn indie rock band Dirty Projectors performs an intimate set led by David Longstreth.
Performers: Dirty Projectors
8:00 p.m.
Pioneer Works
Oneohtrix Point Never performs live with visual design, joined by Tyondai Braxton for the opening set.
Performers: Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Tyondai Braxton
8:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Suzanne Bocanegra presents a multimedia work translating textile patterns into music for loom, orchestra, and electronics.
Performers: Suzanne Bocanegra ensemble
7:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Chris Ryan Williams presents electroacoustic works blending improvisation and structured composition.
Performers: Chris Ryan Williams
8:00 p.m.
Pioneer Works
Kali Malone presents a durational work exploring just intonation with cello, guitar, and sine-wave composition.
Performers: Kali Malone, Lucy Railton, Stephen O’Malley
8:15 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart leads his quartet in modern jazz compositions with saxophone, piano, and bass.
Performers: Billy Hart Quartet
9:30 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
BlankFor.ms collaborates with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore in a live electronic-acoustic trio performance.
Performers: BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran, Marcus Gilmore
11:00 p.m.
Public Records (Upstairs)
Berlin DJ Gaby D’Annunzio closes the night with experimental club sets.
Performers: Gaby D’Annunzio
12:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Dirty Projectors founder David Longstreth performs solo material.
Performers: David Longstreth
1:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Michael Gordon’s “Trance” is performed by Ensemble Signal in a large-scale minimalist work for mixed ensemble.
Performers: Ensemble Signal
2:00 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Amina Claudine Myers presents spiritual jazz and vocal-piano works rooted in blues and improvisation.
Performers: Amina Claudine Myers
2:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Michael Brook performs “Cobalt Blue,” blending ambient guitar textures and minimalism.
Performers: Michael Brook
2:00 p.m.
BRIC Stoop (Free)
Orlas blends samba, disco, and Brazilian jazz in a live reinterpretation of classic forms.
Performers: Orlas
3:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Dither Guitar Quartet performs works by composer James Tenney exploring microtonality and algorithmic structure.
Performers: Dither
3:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Harpist Shelley Burgon presents improvised and composed experimental solo work.
Performers: Shelley Burgon
3:00 p.m.
Tacombi (Roundtable)
Community discussion on motherhood and music in contemporary performance practice.
Performers: Matricalis collective
4:00 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Matthew Shipp performs solo piano improvisations in a large-scale free jazz set.
Performers: Matthew Shipp
4:30 p.m.
BRIC Stoop (Free)
Brooklyn Youth Chorus performs contemporary choral works including a world premiere by Aleksandra Vrebalov.
Performers: Brooklyn Youth Chorus
5:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Byron Westbrook presents spatial sound works using field recordings and resonant environments.
Performers: Byron Westbrook
5:00 p.m.
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
The Percussion Collective performs Mauricio Kagel’s theatrical percussion work “Dressur.”
Performers: The Percussion Collective
5:30 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Lucy Railton performs “Blue Veil,” a cello work focused on resonance and just intonation.
Performers: Lucy Railton
6:30 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
David Murray leads a jazz trio set with Dezron Douglas and Nasheet Waits.
Performers: David Murray Trio
6:30 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou present “Water Poems,” an experimental electroacoustic performance.
Performers: Atkinson, Vantzou
6:30 p.m.
BRIC Stoop (Free)
Saha Gnawa blends North African traditional music with contemporary jazz fusion.
Performers: Saha Gnawa
7:00 p.m.
Betty Carter Park (Free)
Community experimental performance project “broom” presents site-specific work.
Performers: broom collective
7:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
David Lang presents “Mystery Sonatas,” a reinterpretation of Baroque violin works.
Performers: Emma Meinrenken
7:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Julia Santoli performs a multidisciplinary vocal and electronics work inspired by ritual and myth.
Performers: Julia Santoli
7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause perform drone-based experimental compositions.
Performers: Hennies, Kasten-Krause
8:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Julia Wolfe’s “Anthracite Fields” is performed with Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir.
Performers: Bang on a Can All-Stars, Trinity Choir
8:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Electronic duo Matmos performs sample-based experimental music.
Performers: Matmos
8:00 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart present a string-based experimental trio performance.
Performers: Johnson, Kohl, Stewart
8:30 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Quatuor Bozzini performs Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 1.
Performers: Quatuor Bozzini
9:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Pedagogy (Eli Keszler + Nate Boyce) presents percussion and multimedia experimental performance.
Performers: Pedagogy
9:30 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Colleen performs US premiere of new prepared piano and electronics works.
Performers: Colleen
9:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Shoko Nagai and Satoshi Takeishi present electroacoustic improvisation set “VORTEX.”
Performers: Nagai, Takeishi
10:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Melaine Dalibert performs minimalist piano and electronic compositions.
Performers: Melaine Dalibert
10:30 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Contemporaneous performs Gavin Bryars’ “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.”
Performers: Contemporaneous
12:00 p.m.
Fort Greene Park (Free)
John Luther Adams’ outdoor work “Crossing Open Ground” for large wind and percussion ensemble.
Performers: Doug Perkins ensemble
12:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Quatuor Bozzini performs Éliane Radigue’s experimental string works.
Performers: Quatuor Bozzini
1:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Anzû Quartet performs works by Ken Thomson with expanded ensemble.
Performers: Anzû Quartet
1:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Rena Anakwe present interdisciplinary sound and performance work.
Performers: Toussaint-Baptiste, Anakwe
2:00 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
GEORGE premieres new jazz-forward experimental album material.
Performers: GEORGE
2:00 p.m.
BRIC Stoop (Free)
Trombonist Kalia Vandever performs lyrical experimental jazz compositions.
Performers: Kalia Vandever
2:00 p.m.
BAM Fisher
Steve Reich 90th birthday marathon featuring Dither and Sō Percussion.
Performers: Sō Percussion, Dither
2:30 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Charlotte Mundy performs Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices.”
Performers: Charlotte Mundy
3:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Ha-Yang Kim and Hahn Rowe perform improvised experimental duo set.
Performers: Kim, Rowe
3:00 p.m.
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
Sarah Davachi performs organ-based minimalist composition.
Performers: Sarah Davachi
3:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Wildebeest Wind Quintet performs jazz reinterpretations of Dolphy, Coleman, and Nelson.
Performers: Wildebeest Wind Quintet
3:30 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Exceptet performs live-to-film score by Vangelis.
Performers: Exceptet
4:00 p.m.
Fort Greene Park (Free)
Community experimental cleaning/music collective broom performs site-based set.
Performers: broom
4:00 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Elori Saxl and Henry Solomon present new collaborative electroacoustic duo work.
Performers: Saxl, Solomon
4:00 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Steve Lehman Trio with Mark Turner performs Anthony Braxton works.
Performers: Lehman Trio, Mark Turner
4:30 p.m.
BRIC Stoop (Free)
Guitarist Miles Okazaki performs solo interpretations of Thelonious Monk.
Performers: Miles Okazaki
5:00 p.m.
Issue Project Room
Kwami Winfield and C. Spencer Yeh perform improvisational experimental duo set.
Performers: Winfield, Yeh
5:00 p.m.
Public Records (Atrium)
Sam Prekop performs melodic electronic-minimalist solo set.
Performers: Sam Prekop
5:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant expanded ensemble performs new chamber-jazz works.
Performers: Trio-Convulsant + guests
5:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Marty Ehrlich leads Julius Hemphill tribute saxophone ensemble.
Performers: Marty Ehrlich ensemble
5:30 p.m.
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
Quatuor Bozzini performs Sarah Davachi’s “Long Gradus.”
Performers: Quatuor Bozzini
6:00 p.m.
Public Records (Sound Room)
Cosmic Tones Research Trio performs spiritual jazz meditation set.
Performers: Cosmic Tones Research Trio
6:00 p.m.
BRIC Ballroom
Mantra Percussion and Florent Ghys perform multimedia percussion work.
Performers: Mantra Percussion, Ghys
6:00 p.m.
BAM Fisher
Steve Reich marathon continues with Sō Percussion performance.
Performers: Sō Percussion
6:30 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Kris Davis Trio performs modern jazz compositions honoring women pianists.
Performers: Kris Davis Trio
7:00 p.m.
Public Records (Atrium)
KatzPascale performs experimental chamber-pop with cello and saxophone.
Performers: KatzPascale
7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Music School
Brandon Ross and Stomu Takeishi present acoustic experimental duo performance.
Performers: Ross, Takeishi
7:30 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Philip Glass’s “Glassworks.”
Performers: Bang on a Can All-Stars
9:00 p.m.
TFANA / Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Sylvie Courvoisier and Wadada Leo Smith perform improvisational duet set.
Performers: Courvoisier, Smith
10:00 p.m.
Roulette Intermedium
Secret Chiefs 3 closes festival with genre-blending experimental rock set.
Performers: Secret Chiefs 3
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