#3586: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2014
From the New Sounds Live Concert Series, listen to portions of the Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert 2014 – a partnership with the Ecstatic Music Festival, recorded live at Merkin Hall. Hear Bang on a Can co-founders Julia Wolfe's “Lick” and David Lang's Schubert-inspired “Death Speaks” with guest vocalist Shara Worden. There’s also music by one of the three PCF-commissioned composers, the Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl.
Wolfe’s work, “Lick” was the first work she wrote for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. It’s an impatient piece, full of attack fragments; saucy, yet still sensual. Then, hear Daniel Wohl’s commission, “Holographic,” recreating the optical illusion of a hologram through sound. It’s a work for both the acoustic and electric, with field recordings and slightly distorted versions of the live instruments performed by the All-Stars. Then, the closing work of the night was Bang on a Can co-founder David Lang’s darkly post-Schubertian ‘death speaks,’ an intimate, emotional work featuring Shara Worden’s dramatic and delicate vocals in a conversation with the character, Death.
PROGRAM #3586 Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert 2014
(First aired on 4/2/2014)
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Julia Wolfe: Lick [11:32]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live @ Ecstatic Music Festival, 3/13/2014
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on “Bang on a Can Classics,” Cantaloupe #CA 21010
bangonacan.org/store
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Daniel Wohl: Holographic [6:54]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live @ Ecstatic Music Festival, 3/13/2014
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on "Holographic," released in 2016: danielwohl.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars with guest vocalist Shara Worden
WORK: David Lang: Death Speaks [32:22]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live @ Ecstatic Music Festival, 3/13/2014
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Cantaloupe Records #CA 21092
bangonacan.org/store
