The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA) is an intense, visceral, hands-on immersion in contemporary adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. The festival includes performance coaching, composition seminars, music business workshops, improvisation and more. There are daily performances in the museum galleries and free concerts in the North Adams community. The festival concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert featuring performances by the student/faculty ensembles. Mail-in applications are now available for download on our website, and electronic applications will be available December 1st. Applications must be received by January 15, 2009. More information on the festival is available here. For more information on MASS MoCA, visit massmoca.org.