Oneohtrix Point Never

Pioneer Works, in collaboration with Bang on a Can, is excited to present two nights with Oneohtrix Point Never, to open this year’s Long Play festival. His only announced performances in the U.S. for this year, these New York shows are a rare opportunity to hear his widely celebrated album, Tranquilizer (2025). His set will be accompanied by multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet’s singular live visual aesthetic.

The Brooklyn-based musician, composer, and producer is most known for his boundary-pushing soundscapes that blend art, sci-fi, avant-garde techniques, and nostalgic pop culture, often using vintage synthesizers, digital chaos, and complex sampling. His latest album, Tranquilizer, has garnered much critical acclaim—Pitchfork selected the album in "Best New Music" and describes Tranquilizer as “the most immediately pleasurable Oneohtrix Point Never album in some time.” Most recently, his score for Marty Supreme (2025) has been nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score, and shortlisted for the Academy Awards shortlist for Best Original Score.

Oneohtrix Point Never's Pioneer Works shows are included as part of Bang on a Can's Long Play festival. Before January 23, you can purchase an Early Bird Festival Pass (with no additional fees) to get access to both the Oneohtrix Point Never concert at Pioneer Works and all three days of Long Play festival, which takes place in downtown Brooklyn between May 1–3, 2026. Get those fee-free festival passes here. You can see the full Long Play festival lineup here.

About the artists

Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never has constantly merged roles, starting with his first release, Betrayed in the Octagon, to his latest film score for Marty Supreme (2025). With 11 studio albums under his belt, including R Plus Seven, Garden of Delete, Age Of, MagicOPN, and Again, he most recently released his latest album, Tranquilizer, in 2025 to much critical acclaim.

An accomplished artist who moves effortlessly through musical genres, Daniel Lopatin is responsible for soundtracks to many films including those from his ongoing collaboration with the Safdie Brothers such as Uncut Gems (2019) and Good Time (2017), the latter for which he received the Best Soundtrack Award at Cannes Film Festival. In recent years he has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including James Blake, Charli XCX, Iggy Pop, Anohni, David Byrne and Nine Inch Nails. Notably, his relationship with The Weeknd has seen him act as the Musical Director for his 2021 Super Bowl Half-Time performance. Daniel was also an Executive Producer on The Weeknd's worldwide #1 charting albums Dawn FM and Hurry Up Tomorrow as well as a writer for the original score for the film of the same name.

Freeka Tet is a French-born, New York City-based digital artist and creative mercenary working in the realm of experimental art. His practice combines objects, prosthetics, animatronics, hacking, coding, electronics, audio & video plunderphonics, bricolage, and performance-based work. Taking inspiration from internet culture, memes, trolls, and irrational social human behaviour, Tet reinterprets the elements he comes into contact with, blurring creative expression with technical execution.

About Long Play Festival

Long Play is a three-day destination music festival presented by Bang on a Can. This year’s festival marks the 5th year and is scheduled from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 3, 2026. Featuring over 60 concerts, Long Play also showcases a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn—with performances at BRIC, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Music School, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Public Records, the Church of St Luke and St Matthew, ISSUE Project Room, Polonsky Shakespeare Center for Theatre for a New Audience, and Fort Greene Park, and more.