New York-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new kind of music for mixed ensemble. Since their founding in 2008, their unique lung-powered instrumentation (bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, baritone voice) has provoked diverse responses from composers, resulting in a stylistic palette ranging from whistled Brazilian rhythms and microtonal jazz standards to the decoupled and deconstructed sounds of the second modernity. They have been praised as “inventive” by the New York Times and as a “formidable new-music force” by Time Out NY. Avant Music Festival, MATA, and North River Music at Greenwich House are among their recent presenters in New York. loadbang has premiered more than 40 works, including many written by members of the ensemble. Other composers who have written originals and new arrangements for loadbang include Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, Helmut Oehring, Nick Didkovsky, Reiko Füting, and Alexandre Lunsqui and Andy Akiho, who were both recently commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. Not content to dwell solely in the realm of notated music, loadbang is known for its searing and unpredictable improvisations, exploring the edges of instrumental and vocal timbre and technique, and blurring the line between composed and extemporaneous music. To this end, they have embarked on a project to record improvisations and works written by members of the band. These recordings are designed, fabricated, and released in hand-made limited editions. loadbang is dedicated to education and cultivation of an enthusiasm for new music. They have worked with students ranging from elementary schoolers in the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program and at the Bronx Charter School for the Arts to student composers at Cornell and Yale Universities. In addition, they have represented the American Composers Orchestra through working with high school students in Brooklyn, NY. Recently they gave a lecture on John Cage at Carnegie Mellon University and Bethel Park High School in Pennsylvania. Recent concert appearances include a centennial portrait of John Cage, work with sound artists at the 2012 MATA Festival, a lecture recital at Carnegie Mellon University, a program of micro-tonal music at the North River Music series at Greenwich House, and a program combining world premieres with Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame on the Ear Heart Music series at the Tank in New York City.