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'formidable new-music force' --- TimeOutNY​
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​'Extra- cool new music group...a fascinating experience' --- Baltimore Sun

'terrific technical assurance and expressive force' --- Baltimore Sun

'provided ample dexterity and authority' --- Steve Smith (the log journal)

'a sonic world unlike any other' --- The Boston Musical Intelligencer

'...energetic and virtuosic' --- The Journal of Music

'a relaxed mastery' --- New York Classical Review
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'inventive' --- New York Times

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Upcoming Events:
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October 25, 2025
loadbang Presents: Worlding at Tenri Cultural Institute (
NYC)

7pm
​Tickets
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October 27, 2025
Manhattan School of Music Presents: loadbang (
NYC)

7pm

March 8, 2026
loadbang Presents: A Place to Land in the Crypt at the Church of the Intercession (
NYC)

7pm
​Tickets


May 24, 2026
loadbang Presents: Testament at St. Charles Borromeo (Brooklyn) 

4pm
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News:


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Hannah Kendall's new album shouting forever into the receiver is now available on NMC Recordings and you can hear loadbang perform her work when flesh is pressed against the dark. 
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2025 International Commission competition announcement!

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 International Commission Competition. Congratulations to winner Paul Clift and runners-up Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Alessandro Ratoci, and Njabulo Phungula, and thanks to all who applied!
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Our new record on New Focus Recordings A Garden Adorned is now available on all streaming platforms and features music by Oscar Bettison, Raven Chacon, Yotam Haber, Laura Cetilia, and Christina George!
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Did you miss loadbang's presentation of Tombeau at Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel?  The video's are now available!

Lei Liang's Dui is now available on the Islandia Music lable.  You can hear us perform Lakescape V as well as incredible performances by many of our friends and colleagues
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Adam Mirza's Partial Knowledge is now out on New Focus Recordings.  You can hear us on the first track, and the whole album is just great!
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A new documentary about our collaboration with The Qualcomm Institute and Lei Liang is now available!


  • Home
  • About
    • Bios
    • Support
    • Staff and Board of Directors
    • For Composers
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Recordings
    • A Garden Adorned
    • la vida que vendra: Music by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
    • The Consent of Sound and Meaning: Music of Eric Richards
    • Quiver
    • Plays Well With Others
    • old fires catch old buildings
    • Lungpowered
    • Monodramas
    • Complete Discography
  • Press
    • Press Quotes
    • Photos
  • Repertoire
    • Selected Repertoire
    • Program Notes
  • Projects
    • Collaborative Commissioning Fund
    • Commission Competition
    • Power Chats
    • monodramas
    • Longy's Divergent Studio
  • Merch
  • Contact