Bang on a Can: Long Play Festival at BRIC Ballroom
Five performances in one day at BRIC Ballroom, as a part of Long Play Festival 2026.
1:00 pm – Michael Gordon Trance with Ensemble Signal
3:00 pm – Dither and Friends play James Tenney
5:30 pm – Lucy Railton
8:00 pm – Mamtos
10:30 pm –Melaine Dalibert The Vermilion Hours
Gordon says, “Trance began after a dream I had in July 1994 while I was in residence at the Djerassi Foundation just south of San Francisco.” Brad Lubman: Conductor // Paul Coleman: Sound Director // Jessica Schmitz, Amir Farsi: Flute/Pan Pipes // David Crowell, Ed Rosenberg III, Ken Thomson: Saxophones // David Friend, Luke Poeppel, Lisa Moore: Synthesizer // Red Wierenga: Accordion // Taylor Levine: Guitar // Greg Chudzik: Bass Guitar // Doug Perkins: Percussion // Olivia De Prato: Violin // Lauren Radnofsky: Cello // Seneca Black, Tim Leopold, Changhyun Cha, Kevin Fitzgerald: Trumpet // Jen Baker, Lauren Galarraga, Colin Babcock, Julie Dombrowski: Trombone
New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither and Friends performs works by the great James Tenney, who is known for revolutionizing algorithmic composition, plunderphonics, spectral music, and microtonal systems.
Long Play hosts the first live performance in the US of Lucy Railton’s Blue Veil. Blue Veil invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance: states made manifest through Railton’s careful traversal of her cello’s most subtle acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with the mind’s embodied modalities of attention and imagination.
Matmos is Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt. They are respected, innovative auteurs in the world of electronic music and sampling culture making music out of a wildly heterogeneous set of objects and sources, manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms. The result is a model of electronic composition providing the listener with entry points into densely allusive, baroque recordings that have the direct sensory immediacy of pop music.
French pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert has been exploring the field of generative music for nearly two decades, developing “paper algorithms” that never sacrifice poetry and great harmonic subtlety. His “vermilion hour,” a record project initially conceived with David Sylvian (2025), will be presented for the first time in the USA in its instrumental version, combining piano and synthesizer.
You can get access to this show with a Long Play Pass.
Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a four-day destination music festival, presented from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Long Play takes place at multiple venues around Downtown Brooklyn and features 70+ concerts, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and the US premiere of Kali Malone.
Full 4-day and Supporter Passes are on sale now, as well as 1-day Saturday and Sunday passes.