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===Bang on a Can=== Wolfe is one of the founders and artistic directors of [[Bang on a Can]] (alongside fellow composers [[Michael Gordon (composer)|Michael Gordon]] and [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]]), best known for its Marathon Concerts <ref name="bangmarathon">{{Cite web|url=https://bangonacan.org/bang_on_a_can_marathon|title=Bang on a Can Marathon β Bang on a Can|website=bangonacan.org|access-date=Feb 7, 2019}}</ref> during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty-six hours of uninterrupted music at the [[Brookfield Place (New York City)|World Financial Center]] [[Winter Garden Atrium]] in New York City. In 1992, Bang on a Can founded the chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars. Among Bang on a Can's early events were performances by [[John Cage]], premieres of [[Glenn Branca]]βs epic symphonies for massed electric guitars, and fully staged operas by [[Harry Partch]], featuring the composer's original instruments. Wolfe, Gordon, and Lang occasionally collaborate on jointly-composed large-scale staged works, often without revealing which sections each contributed. The opera ''The Carbon Copy Building'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&WorkId_2874=28248|title=Michael Gordon; David Lang; Julia Wolfe: Red Poppy: The Carbon Copy Building|work=G. Schirmer Inc.|access-date=7 March 2011}}</ref> is a collaboration with comic book artist [[Ben Katchor]], received the 2000 [[Village Voice]] [[Obie Award]] for Best New American Work. A projected comic strip accompanies and interacts with the singers, and the frames fall away in the telling of the story. Gordon, Wolfe and Lang have subsequently collaborated with writer Deborah Artman on the 'oratorio' ''Lost Objects'', the recording of which was released in summer 2001 ([[Teldec]] New Line).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kozinn|first1=Allan|title=Socks to Souls: Finding Meaning in What Goes Missing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/arts/music/02lost.html?pagewanted=print&position=|access-date=20 August 2014|work=The New York Times|date=2 December 2004}}</ref> A further project, ''Shelter'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?tabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=28250|title=Michael Gordon; David Lang; Julia Wolfe: Red Poppy: Shelter|work=G. Schirmer Inc.|access-date=7 March 2011}}</ref> is a multi-media work that was commissioned by the ensemble [[musikFabrik]] and features the Scandinavian vocalists [[Trio Mediaeval]] in a staged spectacle that, in the words of librettist Deborah Artman, "evokes the power and threat of nature, the soaring frontier promise contained in the framing of a new house, the pure aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the sweet architecture of sound and the uneasy vulnerability that underlies even the safety of our sleep."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Artman|first1=Deborah|title=Libretti/Texts for Music|url=http://www.deborahartman.com/pages/libretti-text_for_music/|website=Deborah Artman|access-date=19 August 2014}}</ref> Shelter was premiered in Cologne, Germany in spring 2005, and received its US premiere in November 2005. Both ''Shelter'' and ''Carbon Copy'' Building were staged by New York's Ridge Theater, in collaboration with Laurie Olinder (visual graphics), [[Bill Morrison (director)|Bill Morrison]] (film-maker) and Bob McGrath (director). In 2017 Chinese singer [[Gong Linna]] premiered ''Cloud River Mountain,'' written by the three Bang on a Can composers in addition to [[Robert Zollitsch (composer)|Lao Luo]]. They also premiere ''Road Trip,'' a celebration of Bang on a Can's 30-year journey, together at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] in October 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Road Trip|url=http://www.bam.org/music/2017/road-trip|website=BAM|access-date=3 August 2017|archive-date=4 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804012951/http://www.bam.org/music/2017/road-trip|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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