Kali Malone's Does Spring Hide Its Joy featuring Lucy Railton & Stephen O’Malley
Pioneer Works, in collaboration with Bang on a Can, is 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.
Pioneer Works shows are included as part of Bang on a Can's Long Play festival. With a festival pass, you can get access to both the Oneohtrix Point Never and Does Spring Hide Its Joy concerts at Pioneer Works and all four days of Long Play festival, which takes place in downtown Brooklyn between April 30–May 3, 2026. Get those festival passes here. You can see the full Long Play festival lineup here.
About the artists
Kali Malone (b. 1994) composes and performs with a clarity of vision. Her music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances; letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a space for reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods and historical tuning systems become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection.
Malone’s music for pipe organ, choir, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats has quickly risen to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Lincoln Center, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Chapel, Grace Cathedral, Thomaskirche Leipzig, The Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Berghain, Unsound Festival, Berlin Atonal, Primavera, and Kanal Pompidou amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australia. Her commissioned work and residencies include the Ina GRM, The Venice Biennale, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orgelpark, and Lafayette Anticipations. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Caterina Barbieri, Macadam Ensemble, Leila Bordreuil, and Drew McDowall.
Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.
About Long Play Festival
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.