STRANGE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
Strange Beautiful Music (SBM) is New Music Detroit’s annual multi-day new music marathon concert. Held in Detroit every September, SBM runs the gamut of new music - from contemporary classical and world music to experimental "out" jazz, free improvisation, electronica, and beyond!
SBM16 (2023)—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.
Artist Lineup: New Music Detroit, Vicky Chow, Molly Joyce, Virago, Leith Campbell, Joo Won Park, James Cornish Light Opera, Vincent Chandler, Grey Grant, Regenerate! Orchestra, John Collins (US)
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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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Join us for Day 2 (Friday) of Strange Beautiful Music at Newlab @ Michigan Central
Doors at 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!
Join us for Day 3 (Saturday) of Strange Beautiful Music at The Cube in Orchestra Hall presented by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Doors at 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!
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