Festival logo: LOUD Weekend, MASS MoCA

Client: Bang on a Can

LOUD Weekend is a three-day festival by the legendary New York music collective Bang on a Can. The festival is fully-loaded with minimal, experimental and electronic music and held annually at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Performances in 2024 included MEMORY GAME featuring Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble with the electric Bang on a Can All-Stars, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser’s variation of Terry Riley’s minimalist manifesto In C, Queens College Gamelan Yowana Sari performing a new work by Michael Gordon, Tristan Perich’s Dual Synthesis for 1-bit electronics and harpsichord, GEORGE (Anna Webber, Aurora Nealand, Chiquita Magic, John Hollenbeck), HxH (Chris Williams and Lester St. Louis), Lainie Fefferman’s one-woman band White Fire, visiting guest composers Huang Ruo, Marcos Balter, Mathew Rosenblum, Annika Socolofsky, Jeffery Brooks, and much more.