You are reading

Noguchi Museum presenting a creative concert series featuring global artists

The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. (Photo by Elizabeth Beller)

June 19, 2024 By Athena Dawson

The Noguchi Museum is set to host a series of concerts on the second Sunday of each month through September.

The museum has a decade-long partnership with Bang On A Can, an organization dedicated to innovative music programming, which brings live concerts to the museum’s first-floor galleries.

The Noguchi Museum is located at 9-01 33rd Rd. in Long Island City, and performances are from 3:30-4:30 p.m., with a reception following each show. Tickets for the performances include full access to the museum.

Below is the schedule of artists performing through September:

Sunday, July 14, 3:30 p.m. – Kamran Sadeghi 

Sadeghi intertwines music, interdisciplinary art, field recordings and customized software for a unique artistic experience. Sadeghi is of Iranian descent and was raised in the United States, where he made a name for himself in Seattle’s live experimental music scene in 2005. The artist worked with the contemporary dance company Zoe Juniper in 2009, and has also performed at venues such as Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia and The Stone. Sadeghi’s performances, soundtracks and installations have been featured at venues and events worldwide, including Kraftwerk Berlin, the Louvre Museum, HKW, CTM Festival, Funkhaus Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Berghain and the Berlin Biennale. 

Sunday, August 11, 3:30 p.m. – Mei Semones

Semones is a 23-year-old Brooklyn based singer, songwriter and guitarist. Her music blends jazz, bossa nova and indie rock into a unique mash up of her favorite genres. Her newest EP, “Kabutomushi,” has themes of her experiencing the complexities of love. The five featured songs include themes of infatuation, devotion and saying goodbye to close relationships, with lyrics sung in English and Japanese. 

Sunday, September 8, 3:30 p.m. – Alex Zhang Hungtai

Zhang-Hungtai is currently a composer for film soundtracks, and utilizes the sounds of saxophone, synthesizers, percussion and piano for his works. The composer is also a member of an experimental trio with Portuguese musicians David Maranha and Gabriel Ferrandini, based in Lisbon.

email the author: news@queenspost.com
No comments yet

Leave a Comment
Reply to this Comment

All comments are subject to moderation before being posted.


The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Recent News

Police seek woman who attacked 12-year-old boy and stole phone on Jamaica Avenue: NYPD

Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill are still looking for a grown woman who allegedly slapped a young boy repeatedly on Jamaica Avenue before stealing his cell phone on Sunday, Dec. 8.

The stranger approached the 12-year-old victim near 126th Street on Jamaica Avenue at around 4:20 p.m. and began to argue with the youngster. The dispute escalated into violence when the assailant began slapping the child multiple times in his head and snatched his cell phone, police said. She was last seen running off, traveling westbound on Jamaica Avenue toward Bessemer Street.

Homeless men charged in deadly 7 train subway brawl in Woodside: DA

Three homeless men were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday and variously charged with felony robbery, attempted gang assault, and assault for allegedly stealing the belongings of a 69-year-old homeless man who was asleep on a Manhattan-bound 7 train in Woodside early Sunday morning.

The victim woke up and tried to regain his property. During the ensuing brawl, the victim fatally stabbed a 37-year-old assailant and slashed a second man. The victim has not been charged in the fatal stabbing. The investigation by the NYPD’s Queens Homicide Squad and members of the 108th Precinct in Long Island City remains ongoing.

Hunt for suspect after 20-minute groping spree targets four in Southeast Queens: NYPD

Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a serial groper who targeted three teenage girls and a mother walking with her young son in Southeast Queens on the morning of Monday, Dec. 16.

The suspect struck within a brief 20-minute span, beginning with his first victim, a 16-year-old girl walking near 115th Avenue and 170th Street, just a block south of Archie Spigner Park. At approximately 8:20 a.m., the assailant approached her from behind, grabbed her rear end, and fled the scene, police said.