Long Play: Kali Malone feat. Lucy Railton & Stephen O'Malley + Walt McClements

Pioneer Works and Public Records, in collaboration with Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, are excited to present Does Spring Hide Its Joy by composer Kali Malone. Does Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive piece featuring Malone alongside musicians Stephen O'Malley on electric guitar, Lucy Railton on cello, and visuals by video artist Nika Milano. The music is a study in deep listening and non-linear durational composition with a heightened focus on septimal just intonation and beating interference patterns. The nuanced minimalism of cello, electric guitar, sine wives, and vast color fields unfolds an astonishing depth of focus and opens contemplative spaces in the listener's attention. Since its creation in 2020 at the Berlin Funkhaus, Does Spring Hide Its Joy has been performed on many European stages including Schauspielhaus, Bozar, Haus Der Kunst, the Munch Museum, along with a two-day residency at the Southbank’s Purcell Room. Long Play is a four-day destination music festival presented by Bang on a Can. This year’s festival marks the 5th year and is scheduled from Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Featuring over 70 concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn — and features other performances including the US premiere of Kali Malone’s Does Spring Hide Its Joy ft. Lucy Railton & Stephen O’Malley, as well as Bang on a Can All-Stars playing a brand new arrangement of the iconic Philip Glass album Glassworks in its entirety and Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Anthracite Fields with Trinity Choir, Steve Reich’s classic Sextet plus Electric Counterpoint performed live by 13 electric guitarists, the legendary Billy Hart Quartet, and the esteemed and extraordinary Amina Claudine Myers, and much more. See the full lineup at longplayfestival.org. All 3 shows at Pioneer Works are presented in partnership with Bang on a Can and Public Records.