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Projects

Metropolis partners with world-class institutions to create, commission, and produce site-specific performances, new works, recordings, and digital experiences.


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Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns

Coming Soon / Parma Recordings

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Roscoe Mitchell's Metropolis Trilogy

New commission from Roscoe Mitchell weaves jazz and baroque, with Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Ruckus, and Emi Ferguson.

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Vivian Fung: New Opera

New collaboration with composer Vivian Fung and librettist Royce Vavrek.

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Eternal September

An ever-expanding alternate digital reality of music, text, animation, and film exploring “internet” as medium.

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Take a Closer Look

Metropolis plays a central role in the creation of diverse, innovative, and multidisciplinary projects. Here are some examples of our work:

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Flame Keepers

Ongoing Series

Flame Keepers is a live-streaming sonic art installation that weaves together multiple streams of music into unexpected, evolving combinations.

Biophony

Ongoing Series

Discover new music around every corner of the city in a series of citywide site-specific music experiences for everyone.

Youth Works

Ongoing Series

Metropolis partners with NYC schools to bring ambitious music and composition education programs to thousands of students.

Infinite Staircase

2023

Metropolis and pianist Han Chen co-commissioned 18 world premieres after Ligeti’s iconic piano études.

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Presenters and Partners

World-Class Venues

Metropolis projects have been presented by Hollywood Bowl, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NBC's The Tonight Show, Celebrate Brooklyn, Le Poisson Rouge, The Kennedy Center, and more.

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Major Record Labels

Metropolis produces ground-breaking and highly-technical albums with diverse recording studios and non-traditional labels including Nonesuch, Def Jam, Naxos, Merge, and New Amsterdam.

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Artist Collaborations

Metropolis brings together genre-bending expert artists for each multifaceted project, including Questlove, Tyondai Braxton, Emily Wells, Roscoe Mitchell, Timo Andres, Du Yun, Vivian Fung, and more.

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The Best of Metropolis

Discover some of the memorable concerts, albums, and digital projects we’re produced over the years.

Essential Metropolis

Ongoing, New York City

Biophony Pop-Up NYC

Ongoing, New York City

Free pop-up concerts on open streets and pedestrian plazas across the city, expanding community access to new music.

Ongoing, New York City

2015, Central Park

Drifting in Daylight

2015, Central Park

A performative sculpture sailing in Central Park’s Harlem Meer and featuring a Metropolis brass ensemble presented with Creative Time.

2015, Central Park

2013, Brooklyn Academy of Music

Electronium

2013, Brooklyn Academy of Music

An all-star mashup celebrating the pioneering works of electronic music, curated by Questlove at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

2013, Brooklyn Academy of Music

2010, Naxos Records

Avner Dorman: Concertos

2010, Naxos Records

Our Grammy-nominated debut studio recording featured mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital on Naxos Records.

2010, Naxos Records

2011, Lincoln Center

The Martial Arts Trilogy

2011, Lincoln Center

Tan Dun conducts Metropolis at Lincoln Center in his thrilling scores from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Banquet; and Hero.

2011, Lincoln Center

2023, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Biophony SoundGarden

2023, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

An immersive soundbath experience by Ricardo Romaneiro in Brooklyn Botanic’s conservatory ecosystems.

2023, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

2013, New Victory Theater

The Firework Maker's Daughter

2013, New Victory Theater

A new family-friendly opera based on Philip Pullman’s novel, featuring Metropolis artists and fantastical puppets at New Victory Theater.

2013, New Victory Theater

2010–16, The Phillips Collection, AIHS, Clinton Hill, Northeast Tour

Brownstone

2010–16, The Phillips Collection, AIHS, Clinton Hill, Northeast Tour

What would a house sound like if it could sing? An immersive concert experience with acoustic musicians and electronics filling private homes.

2010–16, The Phillips Collection, AIHS, Clinton Hill, Northeast Tour

Ongoing, Lower East Side

One Rivington

Ongoing, Lower East Side

Our ongoing music laboratory on the Lower East Side has hosted over one hundred intimate concerts and workshops since 2017.

Ongoing, Lower East Side

2022, Oktaven Audio

Telekinesis

2022, Oktaven Audio

The studio recording of an eighty-seven-piece work for orchestra, choir and electronics released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records.

2022, Oktaven Audio

2008, Prospect Park Bandshell

The Rite Remixed

2008, Prospect Park Bandshell

A Metropolis commissioned remix of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring presented at Celebrate Brooklyn.

2008, Prospect Park Bandshell

2021, Digital

Flame Keepers

2021, Digital

A perpetual live-streaming sonic art installation has featured 95+ Metropolis commissioned composers since 2021.

2021, Digital

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Over the Years

Metropolis Over the Years

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Caroline Rose

April 2–5, 2024

A genre-bending orchestral collab with singer-songwriter Caroline Rose at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg and BOMBYX in Northampton.

Infinite Staircase

September 24, 2023

18 newly commissioned works celebrating the etudes of György Ligeti.

Biophony Pop-Up NYC 2023

June 10—24, 2023

New music in new places that celebrate our city’s diverse neighborhoods.

Biophony: Face the Music 2023

May 6, 2023

Choose your own sonic adventure with Metropolis and Kaufman Music Center’s teen new music program.

Eternal September: Open House + Beta Launch Party

May 5, 2023

Explore an alternate reality internet of mythological nostalgia.

Life Returns: Digital Premiere

February 14, 2023

Join us for the digital premiere of Life Returns, our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Biophony: SoundGarden

February 11-12, 2023

An audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.

Holiday Harmonies

December 16-17, 2022

Celebrate the holidays with Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Cathedral of St. Joseph with special appearances by Metropolis.

Kanter/I Creation Prize Concert

November 14, 2022

The Mivos Quartet performs new and recent works by Brown, Haven, and Mumford.

A Memorial Tribute

October 21, 2022

A Memorial Tribute to late American composer Ingram Marshall featuring Metropolis artists at The Greene Space and live on WNYC.