David Lang

David Lang (b. Los Angeles, California, 1957) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987.

David Lang (b. Los Angeles, California, 1957) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987.

He can be seen as a composer who challenges the status quo. He sometimes gives his concert pieces strange, and even iconoclastic titles such as Eating Living Monkeys (1985) and Bonehead (1990). His music can be in turn: comic, abrasive, soothing and it usually retains elements of conceptualism. It is also informed by modernism, minimalism, and rock -- and can perhaps be best described by the term post-minimalism.