Bang on a Can presents the 5th year of Long Play, a multi-day destination music festival, presented from Wednesday, April 29 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Featuring 70+ concerts presented in and around Downtown Brooklyn.

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Suzanne Bocanegra’s Rerememberer (all the threads) is a translation of an old Danish peasant fabric into a performance / installation. Bocanegra wanted to apply the instructions for the creation of a simple, honest textile to sounds, actions, lighting and staging, transforming a small, flat scrap of material into an hour of noise and unearthly atmosphere. The idea for the piece came from the realization that weavers codify their instructions on a 5 line staff – exactly how composers write music. The proportions of the thread count and the numerical ordering of the loom tie-up for the weaving pattern serve as the score and scenario for the entire installation, generating the music, the lighting and the placement in space.

Rerememberer is scored for amplified weaver, accordionist, DJ, sound design, lighting, underscore, conductor and an orchestra of fifty violinists who have never played violin before. The use of amateurs refers to the folk tradition of the weaving, returning the homespun quality of the fabric to its origins. It premiered at Judson Memorial Church in New York City on January 17, 2009.

Suzanne Bocanegra is the recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Guggenheim grant and a Rome prize.

A major show of Bocanegra’s work titled “Poorly Watched Girls ” was presented at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Her solo show “Wardrobe Test” was the inaugural exhibition at Art Cake, in Brooklyn.

Bocanegra’s performance “Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor,” was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled to LAMoCA, ICABoston and the Walker Art Center.

Previous performances traveled to UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, The Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation among others.