Founded in 1987 by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, the Bang on a Can Marathon was intended as a genre breaking mega concert to connect artists from disparate music communities. Bang on a can invited FSN to join their annual marathon day of free new music. We set up outside the main concert hall, Brookfield Plaza's Winter Garden, to engage passersby in a day of of spontaneous sound making in downtown New York City. 

About Street Studios 

Street Studios take the basic elements of the music studio to a public place and make the process accessible to anyone in the surrounding area -- revealing a sort of sonic collective unconscious of a community. With a simple setup, musicians and producers begin a process of creating and recording music, while at the same time encouraging passersby to join in. Traffic, chatter, birds, stories, spontaneous songs are all incorporated into music composed on the spot. Often people will begin a musical idea only to have it finished by someone passing by an hour later. After the session, producers craft these recordings into cohesive pieces, attempting to capture the energy of the particular space. These finished songs and soundscapes are then shared with all who participated.