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Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2025

 

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  • Thursday, July 31–Saturday, August 2, 2025
  • $66 Thursday
    $95 Friday
    $95 Saturday
    $159 General Admission Advance 3-Day Pass (week of: $189)
    $259 Preferred 3-Day Pass
  • MASS MoCA

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival has transformed MASS MoCA into a genre-bending musical utopia for innovative composers and performers for 24 of our 26 years. Over three weeks, every corner of our galleries and outdoor spaces will come alive with performances, workshops, and seminars focused on adventurous new music — culminating in LOUD Weekend, when renowned special guests, Bang on a Can faculty, and young players perform throughout MoCA’s campus in a series of playful and heady collisions of jazz, classical, rock, and beyond. Fueled by more than three decades of marathon concerts, Long Play Festival in Brooklyn and 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.

Leading up to the LOUD Weekend finale, Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries. Join us for these beloved gallery concerts and experience some of today’s most innovative new music.

LOUD Weekend 2025 includes:

      • So 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars’ multi-talented clarinetist-composer Ken Thomson, the band presents a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1996 album, including an incredible selection of Sakamoto’s greatest hits from films such as The Last Emperor, Wuthering Heights, The Sheltering Sky, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and more.
      • Michael Gordon,/David Lang/ and 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 So 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, and Trevor Weston.
      • World Premiers 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.

Daily Schedules

LOUD Weekend 2025 DAILY SCHEDULE THURSDAY, JULY 31 7:30-11:30PM NATHALIE JOACHIM & SŌ PERCUSSION STEVE REICH Drumming, performed by SŌ PERCUSSION and guests TED HEARNE feat. TAYLOR LEVINE and BAKUDI SCREAM FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 1:00-11:30PM JEFFREY BROOKS Lux Aeterna (World Premiere) NEWEST VOICES WORLD PREMIERE CONCERT Music by CHE BUFORD, ALIAYTA FOON-DANCOES, REBECCA GALIAN CASTELLO, STEPHEN RYAN JACKSON, JESSIE LEOV, KYLE RIVERA, FILIPPA WESTERBERG, TYMON ZGORZELSKI VICKY CHOW plays PHILIP GLASS Etudes, Book 1 STEVEN SCHICK (Solo) plays RAND STEIGER For Robert Erickson and KURT SCHWITTERS Ursonate JASON TREUTING Amid the Noise/Go Placidly with Haste, performed by SŌ PERCUSSION and guests TED HEARNE Authority GALINA USTVOLSKAYA Composition №1 ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ and Piano Sonata No. 6 STEVEN SCHICK plays TAMAR MUSKAL Facing the Automaton feat.DANIEL ROZIN'S “Wooden Mirror” BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS play RYUICHI SAKAMOTO 1996 MELOMANE WOLF EYES & MARIA CHÁVEZ SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 12-10PM MORTON FELDMAN Why Patterns? FREDERIC RZEWSKI Les Moutons de Panurge and 13 Studies JOHN CAGE Percussion Quartets SPOTLIGHT ON TREVOR WESTON Trevor Weston’s Stars, Wafting Clouds, and Shape Shifter GEMMA PEACOCKE Waves and Lines MAURA BOSCH The End, performed by KARL LARSON MATT EVANS’ AQUATIC HOUSE SPOTLIGHT ON TED HEARNE Ted Hearne’s By-By-Huey, The Answer To The Question That Wings Ask, and Exposure Part 3 ‘Overlay for David Lang’ JULIA WOLFE Forbidden Love, performed by SŌ PERCUSSION GEORGE CRUMB Eleven Echoes of Autumn and An Idyll for the Misbegotten NEW DIRECTIONS - MUSIC BY COLE REYES, KYLE LANDRY, NICHOLAS BATINA Cole Reyes urban urbane, Kyle Landry Dripping Music, Nicholas Battina icaro no. 1 MICHAEL GORDON, DAVID LANG, JULIA WOLFE Shelter with libretto by DEBORAH ARTMAN
Bang On A Can 2025 LOUD Weekend Schedule (subject to change)

Prices include all fees, which are waived for MASS MoCA members.

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    • All seating is general admission. All festival passes include museum admission.
    • LOUD Weekend programming is fluid and subject to change. Final schedules with location will be available closer to the performance dates. Events are limited capacity and first-come, first-served for Advance ticket holders/tickets do not guarantee admission to gallery or B-10 concerts.
    • On top of entry to all concerts, Preferred Tickets include reserved seating for all Hunter Center performances, as well as invitations to the opening night party on Thursday, and a Breakfast with the Founders & Artists on Saturday morning. 
    • All events at MASS MoCA are accessible to all audiences. Please contact boxoffice@massmoca.org if you would like to inquire about accessibility needs and services.
    • By purchasing a ticket to join MASS MoCA’s visitors, staff, and artists on the museum campus, you agree to follow a Courtesy Code, detailed here.
    • Performers subject to change.
    • All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges.