Pitchfork

It begins, innocently enough, at 6 p.m. tomorrow, May 31, in the Winter Garden at New York City's World Financial Center. It ends a dozen delirious, sweat-soaked hours later in the very same spot. What in the hell is this glorious half-day of non-stop rapture? Why, none other than the Bang on a Can Marathon, leading bleary-eyed music-lovers into the early light of June over the weekend.

And who, you may ask, will join in this perverse spectacle? Well, Marnie Stern will be there, bending the strings on her own jams. Owen "Final Fantasy" Pallett will both do his own set and join Bang on a Can All-Stars in a reading of a new Pallett creation entitled Twelve Polearms. SIGNAL will take on Pitchfork.tv star Steve Reich's Daniel Variations, and Alarm Will Sound are doing "Revolution 9" by, well, you know. Pieces by Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arnold Dreyblatt, and John Adams will be performed as well. And the totally un-wacky Dan Deacon will join Kevin O'Meara and Jeremy Hyman in a 4 a.m. take on Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche's notorious Ultimate Reality. Though, really, does reality ever get much more ultimate than hanging with Dan Deacon in the wee hours of the morning on the south tip of Manhattan?