dates & events
Okonski w/Dan Langa
Opening solo set in support of Okonski is the eponymous piano trio led by Asheville, North Carolina–based pianist Steve Okonski, featuring Michael Isvara Montgomery on upright bass and Aaron Frazer on drums. Often recording fully improvised performances directly to tape, the trio’s music has been described as meditative, introspective, and ethereal.
Dan Langa, Zachary Mezzo, Rebecca Schrader
$10-20 Suggested Donation
tickets available at the door or on The Parlor Room website
Fugue State - After Nothing Comes // Album Release Show (w BlankFor.ms)
Doors 7p
Music 7:30p
Fugue State, the new collaborative project led by Northampton, MA-based composer, producer, and engineer Dan Langa, celebrates the release of their debut album After Nothing Comes, out via Switch Hit Records. Neither solo project nor traditional ensemble, Fugue State was born out of a compositional methodology: an obsessive cultivation of studio recordings with a rotating cast of musicians, transformed into spectral, unrecognizable forms.
Rooted in years of studio-based collaboration, Fugue State treats the recording process itself as compositional material. The project draws on an impressive roster of New York City musicians to splice together studio takes, cut in surreptitious B-roll, and render performances into something strange and new.
That process of obsessive excavation became the project's name and guiding logic: Fugue State. After Nothing Comes is a spectral song cycle occupying the space between saxophone ambient, contemporary chamber dub, crumbling art song, and elegantly fried motherboard remixes — the sound of a project that treats the studio itself as something to be torn apart and rebuilt. Named “After Nothing Comes” for the Aidan Koch graphic novel that is its original source material, the album will see release on Switch Hit Records – another artist collective – in May of 2026. The haunting, then the hunting, after nothing comes.
After Nothing Comes - Bandcamp Listening Party
Join Dan Langa of Fugue State for an early listen-through of the album a couple of days before the official release
Gideon Broshy w/ Dan Langa – Sō Labs Performance
Check out Gideon’s record on New Amsterdam, then haul on down here for the show. Suave noises from Dan Langa start us out. Come have your headspace vacuumed and dry cleaned!
Sō Labs Studio Performance
playing solo in support of erika dohi and natasa hadjiandreou’s Sō Labs performance, also featuring a set by anuj bhutani and madeline hocking
Metropolis Ensemble Biophony Pop-Up
with erika dohi, natasa hadjiandreou, anuj bhutani, and daniel matei
WNED Classical Live On Stage: Liminal Space Ensemble
Join Liminal Space Ensemble for an evening of music written by the composers nearest and dearest to Western New York’s musical community. This program will feature works by local composers, as well as the winners of Liminal Space Ensemble’s 2022 Call for Scores competition, and a world premiere from prominent Buffalo composer Caroline Mallonee.
The event is free but you must register to attend.
Program
Gunter Gaupp- Is This: This Is It
Yeeun Sim- The Village and I
World Premiere by Dan Langa
World Premiere by Zane Merritt
World Premiere by Caroline Mallonee
Isabel Ong & Juan Herrera live at Duende
featuring a performance of ‘Lovells Island’ by Isabel Ong and a new work co-composed with The Present Kairos
Isabel Ong, violin
Juan Herrera, percussion
ICEBERG
ICEBERG is a multimedia piece combining theater, chamber orchestra, visual art, and Butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance form. It details the journey of discovering a personal fluorescence in life. This depiction gives the audience an experience of tension and release by approaching the sentimental value of life with the use of multimedia elements. The physical body of the Iceberg is a metaphor for society, with the tip expressing daily life, full of pressures and expectations within the mundane. This includes the collective experience of forceful limitations on lifestyles, living in a small box and not being able to pursue one’s deepest dreams.
LOUD Weekend | presented by Bang on a Can & MASS MoCA
LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA concludes the 20th annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA. Explore the full festival lineup here!
'I’m Alright, I’m OK' - Album Release
Dan’s debut album ‘I’m Alright, I’m OK’ releases everywhere today!
Find it on Bandcamp and everywhere you stream music.
'speak (feat. Stratøs)' - Single Release
The second single off the upcoming debut album ‘I’m Alright, I’m OK’ releases everywhere today.
Find it on Bandcamp and everywhere you stream music.
https://danlanga.bandcamp.com/album/im-alright-im-ok
'shell' - Single Release
The first single off the upcoming debut album ‘I’m Alright, I’m OK’ releases everywhere today.
Find it on Bandcamp and everywhere you stream music.
https://danlanga.bandcamp.com/album/im-alright-im-ok
UMass Graduate Jazz Composers Ensemble
New music from Master's level jazz composers. The program will include a world premiere of a new collaboration written by Dan Langa and Cameron Chandler.
'Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching' performed by Arlen Hlusko
Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching will be featured on the program of cellist, Arlen Hlusko’s upcoming recital at The Momentary contemporary art space in Bentonville, AR. Inspired by the recent pandemic lockdown, Hlusko leads us through a program of solo cello works, most of which were written in isolation and are centered around the themes of loss, hope, and community.
“Ochre” released on cmntx records
Released as part of the cmntx records preview album, All Semantics (I). Also featuring works by Alex Ring Gray, Evan O. Adams, Lena Ruth, Marc G, Michael Denis Ó Callaghan, Mis Chaf, Nyokabi Kariuki, Stratøs, Vicki Leona Nguyen, and Yakiv Tsvietinskyi.
‘Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching’ premiered by Arlen Hlusko
Nevermind The Noise Remote Collaboration Series
Digital Premiere
Past Dates
2025
Other Faces Sō Labs performance, Sō Percussion Studio, Brooklyn, NY
BEAM performed by Umass Amherst Percussion Studio, Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
BEAM performed by Umass Amherst Percussion Studio, Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
BEAM performed by Chandler-Gilbert CC Percussion Studio, Chandler, AZ
BEAM performed by Bard Percussion Studio, Bitó Performance Space, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2024
Other Faces performance, Amherst College, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Sō Labs solo performance, Sō Percussion Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Metropolis Ensemble Biophony Pop-Up, Morningside Heights, New York, NY
2023
August 27, 2023 | Stilt premiered by Liminal Space Ensemble | WNED Classical Live On Stage, Buffalo, NY
May 13, 2023 | ICEBERG premiered by Ren Gyo Soh | Grace & St. Paul’s Church, New York, NY
May 13, 2023 | Lovells Island performed by Isabel Ong | Duende, Buffalo, NY
2022
July 29, 2022 | Nascent premiered at Bang on a Can Loud Weekend | Hunter Center, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
July 27, 2022 | Ebb premiered at Bang on a Can Loud Summer Festival | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
July 25, 2022 | Improvisations with Sarah Manley and Kennedy Dixon at Bang on a Can Loud Summer Festival | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
June 3, 2022 | I’m Alright, I’m Ok released on cmntx records
May 18, 2022 | speak (feat. Stratøs) released on cmntx records
May 11, 2022 | shell released on cmntx records
February 24, 2022 | Two Pepper Punch premiered by the UMass Graduate Jazz Composers Ensemble | Bezanson Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
February 5, 2022 | Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching performed by Arlen Hlusko | The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
2021
November 9, 2021 | Impacts premiered by Liminal Space Ensemble | Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
November 1, 2021 | Ochre released on cmntx records
July 30, 2021 | Estuary performed by Liminal Space Ensemble | Buffalo Infringement Festival, Buffalo, NY
July 24, 2021 | Freckled premiered at 2021 So Percussion Summer Institute | digital premiere
July 24, 2021 | Hiraeth performed by the present kairos | Du Vert a L’Infini, Fresne-Saint-Mamès, France
July 7, 2021| Live Exhibition by The Present Kairos | Hiraeth House, Buffalo, NY
May 13, 2021 | Gossamer premiered by Two-Way Street | Black Mountain College Museum, Ashville, NC
May 11, 2021 | ( ) or Equilibrium premiered in collaboration with Demetris Charalambous | Jack Crystal Theater, New York University, New York, NY
May 10, 2021 | Circuits premiered by the New York University Contemporary Ensemble | digital premiere
May 6, 2021 | After Nothing Comes, based on the book by Aidan Koch | digital premiere
March 26, 2021 | the present kairos presented by Pulsing & Shaking Festival, New York University | digital presentation
March 7, 2021 | Duhkha performed at the Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco Conservatory | digital performance
March 4, 2021 | Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching premiered by Arlen Hlusko | digital premiere
2020
Deliquesce performed by Minato Sakamoto, Virtual Boston New Music Festival
Duhkha performed by Sheherazade Quartet, Du Vert a L’Infini, Fresne-Saint-Mamès, France
Estuary premiered by NYU Woodwinds Summer Festival, digital premiere
2019
BEAM premiered by the NYU Percussion Ensemble, Frederick Loewe Theater, New York, NY
Toward Fiction premiere by Sam Ber, percussion, Dan Langa, electronics, Provincetown Playhouse, New York, NY
harbor premiere by DeLane Doyle, percussion, Dan Langa, piano & electronics, Provincetown Playhouse, New York, NY
All 4 One, One 4 All premiered at the NYU Youth Music Festival, Frederick Loewe Theater, New York, NY
2018
Zoom premiered by Tom Wilson and Danielle Russo, percussion, Caleb Brooks, voice, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
The Ice-Cream Man premiered by Audrey Cheng, piano, Caleb Brooks, tenor, Arms Music Center, Amherst, MA
Down The Line premiered by the Amherst College Jazz Ensemble, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Refraction performed by Phuong-Nghi Pham, piano, Coolidge Cage, Amherst, MA
Humor Me, Please premiered by Mimi Harding, flute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
The Passion of Joan of Arc premiered at Amherst College, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
2017
Refraction premiered by Phuong-Nghi Pham, piano, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Prelude To A Kiss premiered by the Amherst College Jazz Ensemble, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
Eugene premiered by Phoenix Down Trio, Fresh Inc Festival, Bedford Concert Hall, Kenosha, WI
Lens East premiered by Zodiac Trio, The Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst, MA
2016
Vignettes premiered by John McDonald, piano, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA
A Measuring Worm premiered by Wet Ink Ensemble, Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst, MA