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DRIFT / LOOP

DRIFT / LOOP

November 1–2, 2024

Paula Matthusen’s expansive, twenty-four hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection presented at Wesleyan University.

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2024

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2024

August 31—September 29, 2024

Discover an immersive soundtrack across New York City’s neighborhoods.

Biophony: Solstice

Biophony: Solstice

June 20, 2024

Experience the summer solstice in a kaleidoscope of sound and ecstatic music. Featuring Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Erik Hall.

Liquidverse

Liquidverse

Now Playing

Composer Ricardo Romaneiro’s immersive audiovisual symphony with Metropolis Ensemble at Cosm, the world’s first 87-foot diameter 12K LED dome in Los Angeles.

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2023

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2023

June 10—24, 2023

New music in new places that celebrate our city’s diverse neighborhoods.

Biophony: Face the Music 2023

Biophony: Face the Music 2023

May 6, 2023

Choose your own sonic adventure with Metropolis and Kaufman Music Center’s teen new music program.

Biophony: SoundGarden

Biophony: SoundGarden

February 11-12, 2023

An audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.

For the Birds

For the Birds

June 11, 2022

Larger-than-life bird stilt walkers and bird puppets dance to processional music in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2022

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2022

May 15–June 21, 2022

Discover our five-week series of free pop-up concerts at dozens of plazas, squares, parks, and open-streets.

Biophony Festival 2022

Biophony Festival 2022

May 14, 2022

90+ musicians perform new flexible, open-score pieces at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, inspired by nature’s musicians: birds.

Biophony Festival 2021

Biophony Festival 2021

September 18th, 2021

This event, presented for the first time as part of Make Music Autumn, is the grand finale of Metropolis Ensemble’s summer-long project where the orchestra-collective's musicians and composers created their own new music pop-up events across NYC.

Each performance and listener-experience of Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be unique, as determined by the unlimited flexibility of instrumentations, the topography of the site, and the freedom given to participants to choose their own musical adventure.

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2021

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2021

July 21—September 17, 2021

Introducing a city-wide ritual bringing new music to new places.

The Nutcracker at Wethersfield

The Nutcracker at Wethersfield

December 4-23, 2020 / The Wethersfield Estate

A brand-new, live, immersive, reimagining of the Holiday Classic for safe family viewing

Surge

Surge

IN PARTICIPATION WITH ON STELLAR RAYS
Matthew Evan Taylor with animations by artist JJ PEET
May 5, 2017

Brownstone

Brownstone

What would a house sound like if it could sing?
May 16, 2016

Brownstone

Brownstone

Involving musicians and electronic elements placed through several floors, galleries, and former domestic spaces of The Phillips Collection.

May 8, 2016

Brownstone

Brownstone

American Irish Historical Society
January 23, 2015