Join us for Day 3 (Saturday) of Strange Beautiful Music at The Cube in Orchestra Hall presented by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Doors 6pm; Performances 7-11pm

Opening day 3 will be the premiere of an operatic work by Grey Rose Grant at 7pm, integrating thoughts on decomposition/renewal and US death culture. Performing her illuminating interpretations of Philip Glass's Piano Etudes (Book I) at 8pm, we are beyond excited to have NMD rockstar Vicky Chow back at SBM! New Music Detroit will be joined by very special guest Matthew Duvall (of Eighth Blackbird) at 9pm performing works for piano/cello/voice/percussion. Emoting sounds of empathy, play, and introspection the festival will wrap at 10pm with an intimate performance of The Light from Darkness by Virago.

All tickets sold via Resident Advisor. Daily tickets and weekend passes available!

For any questions, please contact info@newmusicdetroit.com.

Join us for Day 2 (Friday) of Strange Beautiful Music at Newlab @ Michigan Central.

Doors 6pm; Performances 7-11pm

Note the address (Newlab is *next* to the Michigan Central Train Station): 2050 15th St, Detroit, MI 48216

Newlab @ Michigan Central will be hosting Day 2 of SBM at their brand-spanking-new, gorgeously restored Albert Kahn Book Depository building in Corktown. SBM at Newlab will be featured as part of Detroit Month of Design.

As you immerse yourself in architectural eye candy, Detroit jazz legend Vincent Chandler and friends will start the night off at 7pm with a fresh experiment in jazz. Focusing on disability as a creative source, Molly Joyce joins NMD at 8pm in a performance of her own work of songs arranged specifically for the ensemble. James Cornish Light Opera returns at 9pm with an always exciting, monumental, and ecstatic exploration of sound + performance art and we are honored to wrap Day 2 at 10pm with Detroit electronic music pioneer John 'Jammin' Collins of Underground Resistance.

All tickets sold via Resident Advisor. Daily tickets and weekend passes available!

For any questions, please contact info@newmusicdetroit.com.

Join us for Day 1 (Thursday) of Strange Beautiful Music at Andy Arts Center.

Doors 6pm; Performances 7-10pm

Celebrating our 16th(!) year of weird and wonderful music in Detroit, this September 7, 8, and 9 we are bringing you another kaleidoscopic mix of genre-defying art-music. Treat your ears to a three-day sonic adventure.

Joo Won Park opens Day 1 at 7pm, immersing you in his ever-inventive electronic soundscapes followed by Leith Campbell at 8pm guiding us into her deeply emotive world of hypnotic loops and digital introspection. Ending the evening will be the beautiful, joyous chaos that is the Regenerate! Orchestra at 9pm (make sure to sit in the splash zone for this one - the performance is inspired by summer thunderstorms and you may get wet!).

The Regenerate! Orchestra's concerts are a happening unlike any other. Often comprised of 60-70 orchestra members, audience members are seated amongst the musicians and are encouraged to move about the space to hear the different sound perspectives across the mammoth Andy Arts Center hangar and garage.

ANYONE is welcome to perform in The Regenerate! Orchestra - it is not required that you read music. You can play the typewriter, crumple paper/make a paper airplane to fly across the room, or use your own body to sing or to be play as a percussion instrument! Express yourself!

REGENERATE ORCHESTRA SIGN-UP: https://www.theregenerateorchestra.com/play-with-us-1

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All tickets sold via Resident Advisor. Daily tickets and weekend passes available!

For any questions, please contact info@newmusicdetroit.com.

Interlochen Public Radio presents two New Music Detroit performances up north!

7pm Friday, August 25th @ The Cathedral Barn, Traverse City

NMD performs works for voice, cello, piano, and percussion by Richard Reed Perry, Katherine Balch, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Thomas Osborne, Maxim Shalygin, and Aart Strootman in Maple City and Traverse City!

Learn more at interlochenpublicradio.org/nmd

Interlochen Public Radio presents two New Music Detroit performances up north!

7pm Thursday, Aug 24th @ Glen Lake School Auditorium, Maple City

NMD performs works for voice, cello, piano, and percussion by Richard Reed Perry, Katherine Balch, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Thomas Osborne, Maxim Shalygin, and Aart Strootman in Maple City and Traverse City!

Learn more at interlochenpublicradio.org/nmd

Sculpted Shadow is a musical interpretation of Scott Hocking’s Detroit Night, a series of photographs of Detroit seen in shadow, streetlamps, and the silence of night. Like one’s eyes adjusting to darkness, the musical program traverses a grayscale terrain, adjusting gradually to an aural shadowscape. The program begins with Pixelation by Daniel Wohl, a work of blurry vision yet containing an underlying rhythmic clarity, leading into Linda Buckley’s piece for solo piano and electronics, Fridur, puncturing the darkness with luminosity. Not fully adjusted to the darkness quite yet, our eyes and ears are immersed in a dissolution of space and time in Paul Clift’s work The Sea Isn’t Rising, The Ground is Sinking, and then our whole being enveloped in the viscous darkness in Irradiance, a work for solo cello and electronics, by Mario Diaz de Leon. Kennedy Taylor Dixon’s work in plain sight, for percussion and fixed media, crosses us over from a world of dark abstraction into a wide-open space of clarity beginning to emerge through the fog and shadow. As dawn rises, we end with Scott Smallwood’s piano trio, Thali Ringing, where shape and form become tangible again. 

Concert @ 3pm Free with gallery admission. RSVP is required. Click here to RSVP!

Sand and Stone draws inspiration from Janus, Matter Design's massive concrete sculpture, serving as a monument of contradictions and as a reference point for the accompanying pieces in Wasserman Projects' exhibition 'Ancient Entanglements'.

The musical program is a parallel reflection upon duality and the deep entanglement of the old with the new. Veiled by Niloufar Nourbakhsh opens the program, capturing the dissonant clash between modern revolutionary change and oppressive and persistent remnants of subjection. Ear, Skin, and Bone Riddles by Marcos Balter echoes ghosts of the past, tilling through layers of trauma to make way for growth. Taking us deep down to the darkest layers of the ocean, we hear the language of a primordial world untouched and unexplored by humans in Shiosai by Noriko Baba. The following triad of works, Less Is More (Molly Joyce), The Reflecting Pool (Leo Chadburn), and The Understanding of All Things (Kate Soper) reflect a dissolution of the overcomplicated in favor of the innate. The program concludes with Wooden by Silvia Borzelli, an unfolding soundscape exploring the capabilities of achieving depth and malleability in a rigid material. 

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New Music Detroit returns to the Andy Arts Center (3000 Fenkell) with an evening of contemporary classical music culminating with George Crumbs spellbinding "Voice of the Whale."

This evening will also feature the premiere of Desiccated by Fjóla Evans. A Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist, her work explores the visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural phenomena. Inspired by the patterns of cracks in drying mud, Desiccated for piano and percussion builds a world from withered attacks and husky buzzings.

Avant Night returns to the lovely Andy Arts Center in NW Detroit! New Music Detroit performs contemporary classical works by living composers, with a special guest appearance from the futuristic experimental duo of Rafael Statin and Djallo Djakate!

A sensitive sonic palate of forward-thinking music, from contemporary classical to experimental electronica. New Music Detroit performs chamber music for strings, piano, percussion and voice, all works written by living composers. Detroit Bureau of Sound and Sophiyah E. present a new composition derived from brainwaves, performed on modular synthesizers, amplified bowls, voices, and FX.

As we round out another year, it’s time for NMD to inquire with our supporters about contributing to our 2022 plans! As you ‘check out’ when buying tickets for this Nov 19th event, we’ve provided a few options that allow you to get a sleek NMD tshirt in black, along with varying levels of a tax-deductible donation.

NMD performs in a battle of the bands to support Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Tune-in virtually for this joyful evening of genre-spanning Detroit music broadcast from the Detroit Riverfront and cast your vote for NMD!

NMD presents SBM 13 virtually! In addition to performing works by Jessie Montgomery, Evan Williams, Lukas Ligeti, Caroline Shaw, and world premieres by Jorge Sosa, NMD will also feature pianist extraordinaire Vicky Chow and Detroit’s saxophonist and composer phenom Marcus Elliot. Tune-in via Facebook LIVE.

NMD makes their debut at Popps Packing in Hamtramck, MI for Strange Music Cagematch: Classical vs. Noise! NMD performs classical works by standard new music giants John Cage and Joseph Schwantner alongside the virtuosic, sublime, and quirky by Amy Beth Kirsten, Nina Shekhar, Louis d’Heudiere, and Christopher Cerrone.

NMD returns to The Cube with a program featuring the iconic string quartet Different Trains by Steve Reich, and works by Tristan Perich, Donnacha Dennehy, Terry Riley, and Bob Becker.

Tickets available at DSO.org

New Music Detroit is thrilled to commission composer Annie Gosfield a new work inspired by the Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Art. It will be premiered at the DIA!

We are thrilled to present a program of music at Pro Musica Detroit.

Program:

Andy Akiho, Karakurenai
Gabriella Smith, Number 9
Hadi Ayanbod, Gravity
Marc Mellits, Mara’s Lullaby from Tight Sweater
Marc Mellits, Prime

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/250814418663064/?ti=icl

'Strange Beautiful Music IX' Saturday September 17, 2016

Location: Wasserman Projects

Featured Artists: Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, Marc Mellits, Jocelyn Zelasko, Donald Sinta Quartet, ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, Latitude 49, Tribute: Steve Reich’s 80th, New Music Detroit ft. Jamaal May and Dennis Nulty, Willo Collective ft. Tanner Porter, Detroit Bureau of Sound ft. Shara Nova

Join NMD at your favorite Detroit experimental venue as we perform recent compositions by North American composers including Gabriella Smith, Sarah Kirkland Snyder, Colin MacDonald, Molly Joyce, Roshanne Etezady and Patrick O'Malley.

Vicky Chow, piano
Ian Ding, percussion
Una O'Riordan, cello
Shannon Orme, clarinets
Erik Ronmark, saxophone
David Buck, flute,
Sheryl Hwangbo, violin
John Madison, viola

Suggested donation $10-100. 

Guarantee your seat by purchasing tickets online HERE.

Join NMD as we kick off our Knight Arts Challenge fundraising campaign!  NMD musicians Ian Ding, Una O'Riordan, Erik Rönmark, Shannon Orme and guest Jani Parsons will perform the music of Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov, Anna Clyne and Nico Muhly.   Performer and choreographer, Biba Bell, joins us for the Detroit premiere of Derek Bermel's "Orbit Design." 

$10 general admission, $25 preferred seating, $125 VIP table for four (includes four tickets).  RESERVE TICKETS HERE

Doors 7:30pm.  Show 8:00pm

Complimentary beverages and light fare provided by NMD and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Join NMD this Fall at Max M. Fisher Music Center for our annual marathon concert!  We have an exciting artist lineup including two world premieres: John Zorn's "Trilogy" and a work by Detroit native, Frank Pahl.  New York-based violinist, Todd Reynolds, will join us for a set of composition and improvisation.  NMD will perform Detroit's premiere of David Lang's "Death Speaks"  with special guest, Shara Worden!  We also look forward to appearances  by GVSU's New Music Ensemble, Miles Brown Quartet, Donald Sinta Sax Quartet and Clem Fortuna.

BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE

For a detailed schedule of the marathon, click here.