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Julia Wolfe: Big, Beautiful, Dark & Scary

from Big, Beautiful, Dark and Scary by Bang on a Can All-Stars

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We at Bang on Can and Cantaloupe Music are thrilled that the Bang on a Can All-Stars are special guests on the PBS KIDS’s popular cartoon featuring everyone’s favorite aardvark, "ARTHUR", in an episode called “Binky’s Music Madness” airing nationwide on May 14, 2014!

For the occasion, we’re offering "ARTHUR" fans (and the public in general) a free download of the music featured on the episode, from the All-Stars 2012 album Big "Beautiful Dark and Scary". Two years in the making, the animated All-Stars lineup includes founding Bang on a Can All-Star clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, percussionist David Cossin, guitarist Mark Stewart, bassist Robert Black, cellist Ashley Bathgate, and pianist Vicky Chow. Bang on a Can co-founder composer Julia Wolfe is also portrayed. Wolfe and Ziporyn recorded their own speaking roles for the episode.

In “Binky’s Music Madness,” the Bang on a Can All-Stars take Elwood City by storm. Everyone is intrigued by their funky brand of experimental music. It sounds like nothing they have ever heard before! Binky is skeptical though. A musical purist, he sets out to prove that their musical compositions are more noise than music. Recording everything from dogs barking to tummy gurgles, Binky composes his very own soundscape and attempts to pass it off as the work of a hot new musical group. But the joke’s on him when all the kids—and even Binky—realize it’s not only music, it’s pretty good!

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from Big, Beautiful, Dark and Scary, released February 28, 2012
photo: TM and © Marc Brown. Arthur © 2014 WGBH.

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