Bang on a Can
Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted contemporary classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. Called "the country's most important vehicle for contemporary music" by the San Francisco Chronicle, the organization focuses on the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide.
Notable performances
Bang on a Can is perhaps best known for its Marathon Concerts during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members, who are encouraged to maintain a "jeans-and-tee-shirt informality," are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty-six hours of uninterrupted music at the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium in New York City.
Among Bang on a Can's early events were performances by John Cage, premieres of Glenn Branca’s epic symphonies for massed electric guitars, and fully staged operas by Harry Partch, featuring the composer's original instruments.
Super A'Can
The Super A'can is a home video game console that was released exclusively in Taiwan in 1995 by Funtech. Inside is a Motorola 68000, also used in the Sega Genesis and Neo Geo. Twelve games have been confirmed to exist for the system.
Commercial performance
Despite the Super A'Can being powerful for its time, it was a commercial failure. There are reasons why the Super A'Can flopped: its high price cost was too expensive for consumers. The A'Can was released as the 3D era had already started, which left no chance for it to compete with consoles like the PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn. Funtech lost USD$6 million before being defunct.
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Podcasts:
Bang on a Can
ALBUMS
- Music for Airports (Live) released: 2008
- Terry Riley In C released: 2001
- Bang on a Can Live, Volume 3 released: 1994
Bang on a Can All-Stars
ALBUMS
- Big Beautiful Dark and Scary released: 2012
- Music for Airports (live) released: 2008
- Elida released: 2005
- Bang on a Can Classics released: 2002
- Classics released: 2002
- Renegade Heaven released: 2001
- Music for Airports released: 1998
- Cheating, Lying, Stealing released: 1996
- Industry released: 1995
- Bang on a Can Live, Volume 1 released: 1992
- A Ballad for Many released:
Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Released 1996- Cheating, Lying, Stealing
- The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory: Part I
- The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory: Part II
- Tsmindao Ghmerto
- Red Shift
- Amalia's Secret: I. An Especially Fine Dress Rag
- Amalia's Secret: II. Amalia, Hanging in a Painting
- Amalia's Secret: III. Two Heads, Sitting Together, Snapping the Dreams of Your Sap
- Amalia's Secret: IV. Swallow the Neck of the Guest Who Hisses When You Pass
- Amalia's Secret: V. Amalia's Secret (Modeled After the One for Your Parents)
- Amalia's Secret: VI. The Smallest Glimmer Disturbs Them
- Amalia's Secret: VII. A Weak Little Gentleman, Gazing, Too Dumb to Wonder
- Amalia's Secret: VIII. The Letter Opened, The Bottle Broken
- Amalia's Secret: IX. Shamefaced Smiles and the Back of Frailty
- Amalia's Secret: X. All Debts Owed Paid, She'd Survive This Too
- Piano Piece No. IV
- Arapua
Bang On!
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