Lost Objects is a musical exploration of the meaning of memory and a powerful monument to the loss of people, things, rituals, ideas. It is a music piece for baroque orchestra, rock ensemble (electric guitar, electric bass, keyboard, and drums), live DJ remix, solo voices, and choir. In this collaborative performance project, genre-defying composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, co-founders of Bang on a Can, team up with polyphonic writer Deborah Artman to work a beautiful alchemy of text and sound. Bang on a Can will be collaborating with the Orchestra of Parco della Musica directed by Tonino Battista.

Bang on a Can (co-founded by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe) is dedicated to making music new. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents, and records new work, develops new audiences, and educates the musicians of the future. Bang on a Can plays “a central role in fostering a new kind of audience that doesn’t concern itself with boundaries. If music is made with originality and integrity, these listeners will come.” (The New York Times). Each new Bang on a Can program has evolved to answer specific challenges faced by today’s musicians, composers, and audiences, in order to make innovative music widely accessible. Bang on a Can’s inventive and assertive approach to programming and presentation has created a large and vibrant international audience made up of people of all ages who are rediscovering the value of contemporary music.

This performance is the closing event of Galileo Week, a weeklong seminar featuring two public lectures by Daphna Shohamy on April 14 and Janani Balasubramanian on April 15.