Ignore the song titles. CREDIT.

The Bang on a Can Marathon
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Sunday, May 31

Verily, this fest has scaled back somewhat in recent years -- consider 2007's fairly insane 26-hour affair, wherein I emerged, groggy and disoriented, from the Winter Garden at around 4:30 a.m., just in time to see some dude nonchalantly pissing into the Hudson. This year's totally free, totally uninhibited carnival of new/classical/experimental music was a relatively demure 12 hours, noon to midnight. "How many of you have been here since noon today?" asked one of MCs at roundabouts 11:30 p.m., just before Tortoise took the stage. Way more whoops than I'd expected. Tired, frail whoops, but whoops nonetheless.