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.
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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
Haunting is an electroacoustic ritual performance that invites you to explore that which haunts you. Part poetry, part meditation, part sonic immersion, this ritual uses electronics to turn the basement of Glob into a cathedral of sound. Join composer-performer-ritualist Silen as they guide you through land blessing, triple soul alignment, ancestral veneration, time-bending circle casting, poetry to embrace the blessing of the dark, trance to explore the edges of you, vocoded riddles for Gods of ecstasy, and electroacoustic music to immerse ourselves in the Other world.
Some parts will be participatory with spoken instructions, and other parts will be wordless soundscapes that invite you to deepen. Everything is an invitation, and participate at the level you are comfortable.
The music and chants used in this ritual are original, by Silen, and the ritual methodologies Silen uses throughout come from their spiritual traditions. Silen is a witch in Reclaiming Tradition and a Dedicant of the Wildwood Tradition. They honor their many teachers, many Elders, Mighty Dead, spirits, and Gods of these threads that have offered them so much.
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.
Enso Sounds
To close our 20-hour MARATHON, Dr. Arin Levy (Enso Sounds) will guide the final hour into deep, immersive drones. The set begins with resonant gongs establishing a slowly evolving sonic field—rich overtones, sustained vibrations, and shifting textures filling the space.
As the sound unfolds, members of the ensemble gradually join, layering their own sustained tones and textures into the landscape. What begins as a single resonant pulse grows into a dense collective drone—an expansive wall of sound that blurs the line between performer and environment.
Part meditation, part sonic ritual, this late-night finale invites listeners to settle into deep listening.
Dr. Arin Levy (they/them) is a Denver-based percussionist, sound artist, and educator of Cuban-American heritage. Founder of Enso Sounds & Healing Arts and director of The Resonance Room at Denver Percussion, Arin performs over 50 sound meditation events annually across the U.S. Their immersive soundscapes, built from gongs, bowls, and improvisation, invite reflection and healing. With a doctorate in percussion and music theory, Arin also offers custom lessons in percussion, theory, piano, and sonic meditation. Their work is rooted in the belief that music—like laughter—can be the best medicine.