Multimedia artist Camille Norment and electronic musician Craig Taborn partner for the very first time in a presentation that traces the fringes of sound, perception, and historical memory and perfectly marries with the varying aesthetics of the space.

Kaija Saariaho, designer Jennifer Tipton, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Park Avenue Armory Artistic Director Pierre Audi discuss Circle Map.

The revered New York Philharmonic returns to the Armory for the New York premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Circle Map, a new work for orchestra and electronics that builds out from six stanzas by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, and D'om la Vrai Sens. The evening also includes the U.S. premiere of Lumiére et Pesanteur as well as Lonh, a work that combines medieval love poetry sung by rising soprano Jennifer Zetlan with an electronic score that manipulates sounds from nature to evoke a distant, luminous landscape.

Having delighted Armory audiences in 2015 with her program of Benjamin Britten’s powerful suites and Sylvia Plath’s haunting poetry, renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton returns to the Board of Officers Room with the North American premiere of a program that boldly re-imagines the radical, sometimes fierce music of Nina Simone.

Lucy Raven comes to the Veterans Room to reimagine her work Tales of Love and Fear, a unique instance of cinema that is as much a film as it is a kinetic sculpture performing the architecture of the space it inhabits.

Artist Taryn Simon discusses the creation of and process behind her latest work with special guests.

Groundbreaking artist Taryn Simon creates an immersive new work unlike any other, in which the subjects themselves become the objects of exhibition. Simon directs and designs both an environment and experience created specifically for the drill hall that defies mediums and the lines between performer and viewer. Experienced after sundown under the cover of darkness, this multifaceted work – at once intensely solitary and somberly communal – blends performance, sound, and architecture.

Born into a musical family in Vienna, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer dabbled with the piano and cello before taking up the clarinet. The young Austrian prodigy makes his North American recital debut in the Board of Officers Room with a program the perfectly showcases what the clarinet can do in a space that highlights the sheer beauty of chamber music.

Join the Armory’s curatorial assistant for insightful, hour-long conversations with artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers, who offer new points of view and unique perspectives on this inventive British artist and his largest survey to date.

The art of music making gets examined through the lenses of science and technology in this thrilling double bill of music and projection by two percussion pioneers, seminal drummer Milford Graves and musician Deantoni Parks.