Flame Keepers

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

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

Youth Works

Ongoing Series

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

Infinite Staircase

Infinite Staircase

2023

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

One Rivington

One Rivington

2017—2022

An art gallery / music laboratory on the Lower East Side that hosted over one hundred intimate concerts and workshops over five years.

Spiritual America

Spiritual America

2018—2019

Composer William Brittelle’s genre-fluid classical-rock / electro-acoustic song cycle with Wye Oak, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and Metropolis.

In Visible Roads

In Visible Roads

2019

Metropolis produced a piano festival bringing together jazz improvisers, classical performers, and contemporary specialists.

Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia

Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia

2010—2017

Metropolis partnered with a global company of 100+ artists and institutions to create a requiem for Cambodia.

Brownstone

Brownstone

2010–2016

This site-specific electro-acoustic installation asked the question: “What would a house sound like if it could sing?”