In celebration of our 20th season, The Playground is planning a 20-hour MARATHON! This event will be broken into four blocks, each at a different venue in Denver. MARATHON will be structured to highlight all that we do as an ensemble and organization: concerts, community music-making, sessions for music educators, healing arts events, and an improvised communal cool down in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Late Night Block
Saturday March 21, 2026
10:00 PM - 3:00 AM
GLOB
3551 Brighton Blvd, Denver, CO 80216
Suggested donation
Close out MARATHON at Denver’s DIY citadel, GLOB.
This underground atmosphere set will intersperse avant DJ sets by former Playground board member DJ i.lind before our Music of The Shining, a show based on music from the Stanley Kubrick (and Stephen King) classic.
i.lind is a Washington DC-born, Denver-based freeform DJ focusing on exposing listeners to the most transformative, mind-bending aspects of global, electroacoustic music. As a host of The Satin Tuning Fork, a monthly radio show broadcast by Philadelphia's Great Circles collective, they focus on juxtaposing unexpected and unheard music to create ecstatic, liberatory listening environments that triangulate the concerns of the raver, the activist, and the deep listener.
Music of The Shining
Dies Irae — Arranged by Conrad Kehn
Little Jake Prelude aka The Awakening of Jacob 1 — Krzysztof Penderecki, arranged by Conrad Kehn & David Short
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, Mvt 3: Adagio — Bela Bartok, arranged by David Short
De Natura Sonoris 1 — Krzysztof Penderecki, arranged by Kehn & Short
Big Jake aka The Awakening of Jacob 2 — Krzysztof Penderecki, arranged by Kehn & Short
It's All Forgotten Now — Ray Noble & Al Bowly, arranged by Short
PolyMorphia Soundpainting — Krzysztof Penderecki, arranged by Kehn and The Playground. A hand gesture-based composition referencing Polymorphia, De Natura Sonoris 2, and Utrenja
Kanon — Krzysztof Penderecki, arranged by Kehn
Midnight, The Stars, And You — Ray Noble & Al Bowly, arranged by Short
Haunting by Silen Wellington
In the words of Lee Morgan, “Ecstasy is both a gateway that can be opened with her own most wild methodology, and a destination that is creeping up on all of us. Some of us will only reach that moment on the edge of death. Witchcraft is about being too impatient for that.”
In Haunting, composer and performer, Silen Wellington, will guide the audience through a ritual performance exploring the yearning that haunts us. This ritual performance will use soundscaping, trance, poetry, and electroacoustic music to immerse audience members in an exploration of the intersections of ritual and performance art, and the queer otherness that invites us into the uncanny.
This performance includes Silen Wellington as a solo performer with voice, piano, and electronics, as well as audience participation.
How All’s to One Thing Wrought! by Loretta Notareschi
“How All’s to One Thing Wrought! is an improvisational piece played on a virtual instrument I designed for laptop and MIDI controller using the software Max. The title, drawn from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “On a Piece of Music,” refers to my wonder at what Unitarian Universalists refer to as the ‘interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.’ The piece presents this notion of oneness or interrelationship through its reliance on one sample (of a low C played on a cello), explored electronically in many different forms.” — LKN
...and we are a collection of memory by Luke Wachter
Luke Wachter performs …and we are a collection of memory for solo vibraphone and still photography, juxtaposing the impermanence of improvisation with the immutability of static images and examining how identity is constructed in the mind by collecting and reinterpreting memories and shared experiences.
Severed Shadow by Ryan Fiegl
Ryan Fiegl winds us down with an electronic music set with reactive video as his musical alter ego Severed Shadow.
The evening closes with an open invite community-improvised drone session carrying us into the early morning.