Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA
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| Dates: | Thursday, July 31, 2025 - Saturday, August 2, 2025 |
| Hours: | All day |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor, Outdoor |
| Cost: | $$$ see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
LOUD Weekend features three days of ear-bending music and mind-blowing art exhibitions taking place throughout the museum’s vast galleries and its stunning collection of indoor and outdoor performing arts venues.
LOUD Weekend kicks off Thursday, July 31 at 7:30pm with a groove-packed double bill featuring Sō Percussion on double duty playing Steve Reich’s iconic pulsating masterwork Drumming plus an opening set with composer-flutist-vocalist Nathalie Joachim, performing music from Note to Self and Joachim’s recent release Ki moun ou ye.
Highlights of the weekend include Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Ryuichi Sakamoto 1996; Shelter, an oratorio-collaboration of Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe with libretto by Deborah Artman; Percussion legend Steven Schick; renowned noise-music duo Wolf Eyes with sound-artist/DJ Maria Chavez; visiting guest composers Jeffrey Brooks, Ted Hearne, Tamar Muskal, Gemma Peacocke, Trevor Weston, and much more. Tickets are available now for $159 (3-day Pass).
Fueled by more than three decades of Marathon concerts, Long Play Festival in Brooklyn, countless world tours and staged productions, Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental, and unusual music.
LOUD Weekend 2025 (additional artists and more details to be announced):
- Sō Percussion anchors an ecstatic opening night performance of Steve Reich’s Drumming - one of the most important works in the minimalist canon - plus an opening set featuring the virtuosic and charismatic composer-flutist-vocalist Nathalie Joachim.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto was arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world. His film scores are renowned for their diversity and sensitivity and it is rare for a band to play this music live.
- Arranged by the All-Stars’ multi-talented clarinetist-composer Ken Thomson, Bang on a Can All-Stars play Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1996 includes an incredible selection of many of Sakamoto’s greatest hits - music from films including The Last Emperor, Wuthering Heights, The Sheltering Sky, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and more.
- Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe’s collaboratively composed Shelter 'evokes the power and threat of nature, the soaring frontier promise contained in the framing of a new house, the pure aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the sweet architecture of sound and the uneasy vulnerability that underlies even the safety of our sleep.' With libretto by Deborah Artman.
- Percussion legend Steven Schick leads a performance of Facing the Automaton, Tamar-Muskal's groundbreaking percussion concerto for solo percussion, kinetic sculpture (Daniel Rozin's “Wooden Mirror”), and chamber ensemble.
- Julia Wolfe’s ethereal and crunchy Forbidden Love - all the things you aren’t supposed to do to string instruments - performed by Sō Percussion, the ultimate can-do collective.
- Experimental noise master duo Wolf Eyes joins forces with sound artist, turntablist, and DJ Maria Chavez for an other-worldly sonic experience.
- Guest composer Jeffrey Brooks returns to LOUD Weekend, this time with a new work for two hurdy gurdies!
- Jason Treuting, co-founder of So Percussion, is joined by a host of percussionists to perform his hypnotic suite Amid the Noise in Courtyard D.
- Special Guest Composers Ted Hearne,Tamar Muskal, Gemma Peacocke, Trevor Weston.
WORLD PREMIERES by the 2025 summer festival composition fellows.
- Performances by Vicky Chow, David Cossin, Arlen Hlusko, Nick Photinos, Todd Reynolds, Maya Stone, Ken Thomson, plus fellows from the 2025 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA.
PLUS A LOT MORE!
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is the culminating event of the 23rd annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a tremendously influential professional development program led by today’s pioneers of experimental music for young composers and performers selected from an international applicant pool. The festival runs July 15–30, 2025.
| COST | ↑ top |
General Admission Advance 3-Day Pass $159 (week of: $189) Preferred 3-Day Pass $259 (Single Day-Passes Will Be Available When Schedule Is Finalized)
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
massmoca.org/event/loud-weekend/
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA, 01247 map
MASS MoCA
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