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Entropy Stereo Performance Space





Entropy Stereo Performance Space is dedicated to presenting challenging new music with a focus on the experimental, free jazz, and avant garde. The space is host to an 8-track recording studio and a performance series. Located in Redford, MI, the space comfortably holds 30-40 patrons and has a stereo PA system. Please get in touch for studio or event rental.

Entropy Stereo
25908 Six Mile
Redford, MI, 48240

info@entropystereo.com








The Northwoods Improvisers Friday, December 27, 2024



The Northwoods Improvisers have a long and storied career reaching back to the 1970s. They have performed with Eugene Chadbourne, Faruq Z. Bey, Bill Smith, and Eddie Gale among others. The Northwoods Improvisers have dedicated themselves to acoustic music for decades and incorporate free music with African, Near Eastern, Far Eastern and Jazz as an art form. This version of the long standing collective includes Mike Johnston on bass and Native American flutes, Nick Ashton on drums, Jack O'Brien on cello, Dominic Bierenga on winds, Donovan Boxey on winds, and Mike Khoury on violin.



The Northwoods recorded their follow up to Fanfares in April and June. Stay tuned for more. Please visit www.entopystereo.com to purchase Northwoods Improvisers titles.



There will be plenty of obscure merchandise, so please bring some extra cash.



Friday, December 27, 2024
Music starts at 7 p.m.
Doors at 6 p.m.
Admission is $10








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ESC with the Sensorium Chamber Ensemble of Detroit
Friday, November 15, 2024



ESC is a networked, electroacoustic trio comprised of Elainie Lillios, Scott Deal, and Christopher Biggs. The group creates web-based and live sound art through networked means, using interactive technologies combined with acoustic percussion and creative media. Acclaimed as one of the "contemporary masters of the medium" by MIT Press's Computer Music Journal, electroacoustic composer Elainie Lillios creates works that reflect her fascination with listening, sound, space, time, immersion, and anecdote. Scott Deal's recordings have been described as "soaring, shimmering explorations of resplendent mood and incredible scale". . . "sublimely performed." Christopher Biggs is a composer and multimedia artist whose "original and unique musical language" blends dense, contrapuntal textures with direct, visceral expression. His music presents a "masterful combination between acoustic instruments and electronics" (Avant Scena).



The Sensorium Chamber Ensemble of Detroit is led by composer/saxophonist/guitarist Ben Miller. The group plays composition and arrangements by Miller. Miller first came to the fore with the art-damaged punk group, Destroy All Monsters featuring members of the Stooges and the MC5. Ben has always had an eye toward the avant garde and has been composing works ever since his early beginnings. Many of these can be heard on recent releases on Cuneiform and Two Rooms Records. On this night, Miller presents a body of new work along with arrangements of a couple of older works. The unconventional instrumentation includes strings, winds, percussion, and electric guitar. This your chance to experience home grown new music from one of Detroit's more thoughtful composers.



There will be one-of-a-kind merch, so bring extra cash.



Friday, November 15, 2024
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Lime Rickey International and Cyrus Pireh. Friday, August 9, 2024



Leyya Mona Tawil (Lime Rickey International) is an artist, curator, and cultural activist. She works in sound art, dance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her works have toured throughout Europe, the Arab region, and the US. Her work has been commissioned by Abrons Arts Center (NYC), New Performance Turku (Finland), KONE Foundation (Helsinki), ZVRK Festival (Bosnia), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), ​Fire Museum Presents (Philadelphia), Arab American National Museum (Dearborn), and was nominated for a 2019 "Bessies" Award in Music (NYC). She is the director of Arab.AMP - a platform for experimental music, live art, and ideas from the SWANA diaspora and allied communities. She also directs TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland CA. Leyya will be making her triumphant return to Entropy on this night.



Cyrus Pireh, born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, usa on March 22, 1981, is an anarchist, musician, composer, and music theorist. As a guitarist, Cyrus seeks the limits of the body and the self. Some of Cyrus' recent works include the VISITOR album (Shinkoyo/Artist Pool, 2022), the Still Here, Still Ripping album (Astral Spirits, 2022), and a duo album with Argentine bassist ACL: Emisiones contra el régimen de normalización (Prius Discos, 2019). Cyrus was profiled on The Watt from Pedro Show radio program (2023) and in online music magazine Perfect Sound Forever (2022). Cyrus has performed in venues across the usa, Argentina, and Japan and been broadcast on radio stations internationally. Cyrus currently engages with the 5000+ subscribers on Cyrus' youtube channel, continuing to build transnational connections to musicians around the world. Cyrus Pireh complete bio: https://4gre.org/C/bio.html.



Both Lime Rickey and Cyrus will have LPs and one-of-a-kind merch available for purchase at the show, so bring extra cash.



Friday, August 9, 2024
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Oluyemi Thomas Quintet. Friday, July 12, 2024



Oluyemi Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Washtenaw College in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he received an Associate of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. While attending Washtenaw College, he also studied music and the spiritual and physical nature of sound and silence. Great love and respect for the Arts is regarded as a gem to his parents who passed this on to him and his sisters and brothers. In his childhood years his mother and father often listened to the masters Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday. As a creative musician, performer, recording artist teacher and engineer, Mr. Thomas seeks to express his abiding love for the hidden power of Art. Oluyemi's primary focus is to touch the inner core of individuals, be it in a forum, radio, television, recording or on the bandstand. For two decades he and his lovely wife poet Ijeoma have been members of the music and poetry unit Positive Knowledge (Bass Clarinet/Saxophone). He may be heard on Music & Arts, Ear Light Records, Eremite, Rastascan, and BMG labels. His travels to Africa, the Middle East, and Europe are elements he brings to the mix. Oluyemi's experience in sharing musical language utterance include the great Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Silva, William Parker, Wilber Morris, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, and wonderful conversations with Anthony Braxton and Charles Gayle. Mr. Oluyemi believes "The musician's art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise" and "Music should lead to spirituality."


Wikipedia Bio:

Oluyemi Thomas (born August 16, 1952) is a free jazz bass clarinetist and saxophonist.

Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He began playing clarinet as a child, and was exposed to the music of Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington by his parents. He attended Washtenaw College in Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, studying engineering and music, and receiving an Associate of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, then worked for Bechtel. In 1974, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was employed by a construction company and became involved with the music scene. During this time, he met his future wife and musical partner, the poet Ijeoma Chinue Thomas, who was visiting from Washington, D.C. Thomas moved to D.C. to join her, and the couple soon married before moving back to the west coast, settling in Oakland.

Together, the duo founded a group called Positive Knowledge, performing works inspired by their Bahá'í Faith. Over the years, in addition to releasing a number of albums, they toured the world, and collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including Marshall Allen, Eddie Gale, Henry Grimes, Kidd Jordan, Peter Kowald, Miya Masaoka, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Larry Ochs, William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, and Michael Wimberly. Writing for The New York Times, Ben Ratliff stated that the group was responsible for "the best moments" of the opening concert of the 2002 Vision Festival, and commented: "The Thomases practice a mixture of free jazz and poetry, and practice it well. Mr. Thomas played interval-jumping improvisations that recalled bird songs and Eric Dolphy; Ms. Thomas intoned and repeated lines, going from whisper to shriek. They played in close communication, feeding off each other's sputtering energy."

Thomas refers to his music as "adventurous jazz," and acknowledged the influence of Eric Dolphy, calling him "my great teacher." Although Thomas performs on both bass clarinet and saxophone, he stated that "the bass clarinet has that floor-of-the-ocean tone that I really adore." In an AllMusic review, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "The bass clarinet of Oluyemi Thomas is freely able to discourse at length in an overblown harmonic fashion reminiscent of latter-period John Coltrane. This unabashed sovereignty creates more rhythmic opportunities than melodic ones. He sounds like an extension of David Murray, and the difference is the emphasis on building sheets of sound gradually from pianissimo to forte and back again on... longer improvisations."

In addition to being an improvisor, Thomas composes, and is known for his colorful graphic scores, which, according to Duane Deterville, who interviewed him, resemble paintings by Kandinsky. Thomas began experimenting with notation in the 1970s, and said that his engineering background influenced the appearance of his scores.

According to Thomas, his music is an expression of his Bahá'í faith. In an interview, he commented that "music comes from the world of beyond... to convey collective reality," and stated that the performance of music is "having a conversation with God."



Oluyemi Thomas Quintet:

Oluyemi Thomas - Bass Clarinet and Saxophone
Jaribu Shahid - Double Bass
Kenn Thomas - Piano
Mike Khoury - Viola
Dave Hurley - Percussion




Please note that this is an early show with doors at 6 p.m. and music starting promptly at 7 p.m. Admission is $20 for two sets. Please bring extra cash for obscure, one-of-a-kind merchandise.



Friday, July 12, 2024
Music starts at 7 p.m.
Doors at 6 p.m.
Admission is $20








The 11th Hour Quartet with Tinn Parrow and his Clapfold Platune.
Friday, June 28, 2024



"Benjamin Miller has been creating forward-looking music ever since the psychedelic rock band Sproton Layer, when he was a student in the late 1960s at what is now called Pioneer High School. Miller seems extra-inspired the last few years, too, digging through his archives with twin brother Laurence to highlight past jazz-classical works, exploring multiphonic guitar pieces, and tuning up his alto sax for The Eleventh Hour. This chamber-jazz quartet also features Marlena Boedigheimer (tenor sax), Joel Peterson (double bass), and Dave Hurley (drums) along with the occasional drop-ins from brother Laurence (alto clarinet) and Jonathan Taylor (drums). The group's new album, Under the Wire, offers compositions that "use interval sequences, tone rows, as well as conventional methods," and three artists tagged on the album's Bandcamp page should give you an idea about how the record sounds: Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and Angelo Badalamenti." - Christopher Porter, Feb. 2024 A2Pulp.org.



Tinn Parrow and his Clapfold Platune will also be performing. Tinn Parrow is the alter ego of Laurence Miller. You may know Laurence from his time as one of the guitarists in Destroy All Monsters, the drummer in Sproton Layer (with brothers Ben and Roger), half of the duo Empool, or the genius behind the Beefheart-inspired pop of Larynx Zillions. The Platune is made up of Laurence Miller on vocals, Bb clarinet, and bass clarinet; Tim Holmes on F-mezzo, alto, and tenor saxophone; Johnny Evans on alto and tenor saxophone; Eric Bernreuter on Trombone; John Woodford on Euphonium; and Andrew Conlin on drums. They will be performing compositions documented on the 4th World Quartet record as well as those documented on Early Compositions by the Miller Twins. This free, atonal be-bop ensemble is a force to be reckoned with.



The Miller's always have weird, one-of-a-kind merch, so bring extra cash.



Friday, June 28, 2024
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Tim Kaiser with Dr. Pete Larson. Tuesday, May 21, 2024



Duluth, MN native Tim Kaiser has been working in the realm of experimental music for decades. An instrument builder, his focus has been on electro-acoustic music, drones, and obsolete technology. Tim has issued multiple recordings of his work as well as composed multiple film soundtracks resulting from his Frankenstein like contraptions often assembled from found or discarded objects. If you're lucky, Tim might bring some of his contraptions for sale upon his visit. Don't miss this rare performance of Tim and his beautiful oddball machines. For more info on Tim, visit tim-kaiser.org.



Also performing will be the inimitable Dr. Pete Larson. Dr. Pete first came to note with the fierce, no wave-oriented group Couch and he was the proprietor of the Bulb record label. Now, Dr. Pete is the creative mind behind Dagoretti Records and several groups in which Dr. Pete divides his time between the traditional nyatiti and his work in the electronic realm. This is Dr. Pete's first time visiting Entropy and it surely won't be his last! drpetelarson.bandcamp.com



Bring extra cash for one-of-a-kind merch that you will be unlikely to see again.



Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Viola Yip with Joo Won Park. Friday, February 23, 2024



We are so pleased to present Viola Yip and Joo Won Park for an evening of electroacoustic music at Entropy Stereo. Viola is on tour from Berlin and will be performing her piece Liminal Lines (2022) with a sound generating dress! The work is for for self-built PVC dress, speaker cables, body movements, and electronics and is the develop.m.ent for project "Between the Lines." It is a live electronic music performance by Viola Yip on her self-made wearable instrument and her body movements. It explores a choreography between sound and movements, beyond the traditional notions of techniques and executions. This wearable instrument, in the form of a dress, is made of various audio cables that allows audio signals to pass through. Her body, when wearing the dress, facilitates a wide range of distances, pressures, and speeds through her body movements. These body-and-instrument interactions devise performative relationships between the instrument and the human body, which allow complex sonorities to emerge and modulate over time.

Viola Yip is a Berlin-based experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder from Hong Kong. She has been interested in creating new self-built instruments and sound works in the intersection of composition, performance, and improvisation, exploring various relationships between materiality, space and our musical bodies in music. Her instruments and sound performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), The New School (NYC), Look and Listen Festival (NYC), DiMenna Center (NYC), CCRMA at Stanford University, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Center for New Music (SF), Constellation (Chicago), Cycling '74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center (HK), Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University Belfast, University of Huddersfield (UK), QO-2 Brussels, Moers Festival, Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Kunst Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, A L'arme! Festival Berlin, DARA String Festival Berlin, Heroines of Sound Berlin, Seanaps Festival Leipzig, ZiMMT Leipzig, Festival für Immaterielle Kunst Hamburg, Blurred Edges Festival Hamburg, and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta stipendium in Munich as well as an residency at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music in Academy of Arts (AdK) Berlin.



Joo Won Park (joowonpark.net) makes music with electronics, toys, and other sources that he can record or synthesize. He is the recipient of Knight Arts Challenge Detroit (2019) and the Kresge Arts Fellowship (2020). His music and writings are available on ICMC DVD, Spectrum Press, MIT Press, PARMA, Visceral Media, MCSD, SEAMUS, and No Remixes labels. He currently teaches Music Technology at Wayne State University.



Friday, February 23, 2024
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Northwoods Improvisors. Friday, December 29, 2023



The Northwoods Improvisers return to the Entropy Stereo Performance Space in support of their latest album, Fanfares out on Entropy Stereo Recordings and available here: Entropy Stereo Catalog.

The quintet/sextet lineup includes veterans Mike Johnston (bass, bass recorder, wood flutes, percussion) and Nick Ashton (drums, percussion) and reunites them with the fierce front line of saxophonists Dominic Bierenga (tenor/alto/soprano saxophones, flute, percussion) and Donovan Boxey (alto/soprano saxophone, clarinet, melodica, wood flutes, percussion) while introducing the strings of Jack O'Brien (cello, bass) and Mike Khoury (violin, viola).

The music is all acoustic and wonderfully recorded. Highlights include the tracks "Hymn for Dennis Gonzalez" which is an homage to the late Dallas, TX trumpet player who has a history for performing with the Northwoods Improvisers. Boxey's "Anointed" comprises another highlight with eastern sounds and intertwined soprano saxophones.

While the group touches on the spiritual in many ways, they also bring forth fire in the form of the winds duo of Bierenga and Boxey who are wise beyond their years when bringing a saxophone to their lips. The music has the strong rhythm section listeners will instantly recognize with Johnston's deep bass lines and Ashton's powerful drumming. Johnston, O'Brien and Khoury form a lush string section enhancing the compositions.

Copies of Fanfares will also be available for purchase at the performance.



Friday, December 29, 2023
Music starts at 7 p.m.
Doors at 6 p.m.
Admission is $10








Adam Fong/Brent Miller Duo with wilder/hall Duo. Friday, October 27, 2023



Adam Fong is an active cultural entrepreneur, and a composer, performer and producer of new music. He has helped build two innovative arts service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area: Emerging Arts Professionals, and the Center for New Music. Fong received the MFA in Music Composition at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith. As Associate Director of Other Minds (2006-2012), he produced six editions of the annual Other Minds Festival, dubbed the "premier new music festival on the West Coast" (Los Angeles Times), and many special projects including the CD reissues of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano and The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles, tribute concerts to Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, and Dane Rudhyar, a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Fluxus, and the American Premiere of 18 Microtonal Ragas based on "Solo for Voice 58" by John Cage. Fong's own compositions have been performed internationally in Auckland, London, Berlin, Tüabingen and Darmstadt, at many US universities, and throughout California, by performers including the two-piano team Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. Fong also holds a master's degree from Stanford University (English). He has lectured on experimental music, received international publication of his scholarly and creative work, and serves the arts and his communities in his current job as Program Officer in the Performing Arts at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and through numerous advisory boards, panels, and committees at the local and national level.

Brent Miller (b. 1978) is a composer, performer, and arts administrator based in San Francisco, CA. Recent projects include works for Rova Saxophone Quartet, violinist Eric km Clark (Southland Ensemble, EAR Unit), Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, and Sqwonk. He has received grants from Zellerbach Family Foundation and American Composers Forum to fund his work. He studied composition at the University of Arkansas with Robert Mueller and University of Missouri-Kansas City with James Mobberley and Paul Rudy. Brent is active in the arts administration field founding and serving as Managing Director for The Center for New Music in San Francisco, a work/performance space that supports creative music, as well as managing Rova:Arts, a non-profit organization that supports Rova Saxophone Quartet. He also has worked with Other Minds, helping to produce the annual Other Minds Festival, and is a founding member of The Collected, a group dedicated to the advancement of new music.



Kaleigh Wilder and Ben Hall are engaged in a process of diasporic excavation. The central preoccupation of this process is understanding what languages have been lost/erased and how reconstituting pieces of these languages, collapsing them, in the present tense re-places ancestral understanding. Wilder performs on baritone saxophone with Hall on percussion.



Friday, October 27, 2023
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Leith Campbell & Ben Miller's 11th Hour. Friday, September 15, 2023



We are so pleased to present a giant of Michigan Music at Entropy. Leith Campbell has a long history of performing in radically different contexts. Perhaps best known for her involvement with the collective Ape Technology, Campbell has created both electro-acoustic music as well as explored the intersection of music and robotics. Most recently, Campbell's processed saxophone explorations pick up where Terry Riley has left off. The night promises to be one-of-a-kind!

Leith has been a musician and artist on the Detroit scene for 20 years. From her punk rock beginnings at the Gold Dollar and Old Miami, through ten years of electromechanical performance art with the venerable Apetechnology collective, into today, she has stayed out on the edge in Detroit for years. In her latest reinvention, Leith performs an electroacoustic based live looping set invoking both the timbre and texture of minimalist classical music such as Terry Riley or Steve Reich, while at the same time embracing the sinuous textures of free jazz improvisation influenced by Ornette Coleman and John Lurie. Leith teaches music and art at multiple schools, and is a 2022 Kresge Fellow. Please click here to listen to her work.



Ben Miller has a long history of performing in Michigan and abroad. You may have seen him perform in the art damaged group Destroy All Monsters, or in Empool with brother Laurence, or in M3/Sproton Layer with brothers Laurence and Roger, or even with his no wave tinged group Porcelain Hammer. The Eleventh Hour is a new post-jazz quartet led by long-time Ypsilanti/Detroit experimental musician Benjamin Miller, mixing art-rock with a compositional and melodic style reminiscent of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. Miller's 11th Hour group brings together a group of sincere and talented musicians who can easily move from improvisation to composition in a seamless manner. The 11th hour consists of Ben Miller on alto and c-tenor saxophone, Marlena Boedigheimer on tenor saxophone, Annick Odom on double bass, and David Hurley on drums and glockenspiel.



Friday, September 15, 2023
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Sir Richard Bishop wsg Mike Khoury. Saturday, August 12, 2023



Sir Richard Bishop has been channeling some of the most esoteric guitar music for decades. Originally hailing from the Saginaw area, Sir Richard was a key member of the Sun City girls with brother Alan Bishop and Charles Gocher. Since the breakup of the Sun City Girls due to Gocher's passing, Sir Richard Bishop has been busy with the group Rangda as well as distilling his guitar style which includes heavy doses of Django Rheinhardt, Ali Akbar Khan and some influence of Ennio Morricone. Westsider Mike Khoury will perform a solo set. Doors at 7 p.m., music at 8 p.m.. Bring extra cash for one-of-a-kind merch opportunities. Admission is sliding scale $10-20. Please don't miss this show in such an intimate environment.



Saturday, August 12, 2023
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Sliding scale $10 - $20 admission








Sawt Out with Khoury/Hall. Tuesday, June 13, 2023



Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out: Burkhard Beins - Percussion, Mazen Kerbaj - Trumpet, and Michael Vorfeld - Percussion, has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US.



Also appearing are the heavies from the Big City, Khoury/Hall on amplified viola and concert percussion.



Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Music starts at 7 p.m.
Sliding scale $10 - $20 admission








Cyrus Pireh with Panto Collapsar. Friday, April 21, 2023



Cyrus will be presenting his recent VISITOR LP in a first public performance since 2019. Cyrus says this about the work:

"The electric guitar as a folk instrument unfinished in its evolution, invites engagement in its becoming. I have chosen to add and also subtract strings, to play with my fingernails, and to shred not by rapidly picking the string, but by rapidly interrupting the signal of the electric guitar itself. I have built an amplifier that allows me to more directly commune with the electricity the electric guitar channels.

The instrument is important to me because it allows me to enter a world of ideas where all sounds are possible and no sound can be completely blocked out by any other. Really, any instrument can offer the same. Learning to enter into and exist within such a world has made me a better person in this one. This is the reason why to listen to this, or any music. It is an encouragement to dream and to learn to embody those dreams in reality."



Panto Collapsar is David Hurley (drums, percussion, zurna), Chris Peters (electric guitar) and Simon Ray (organ, electronics, feedback membrane).



Friday, April 21, 2023
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








ARRN with witchpucker. Friday, November 11, 2022



ARRN, using space and audience as tools within performance, crafts an environment of self-reflection through soundscapes. A modern-classical approach to deconstructed R&B, ARRN uses the origins of poetry in blues to communicate the message of self-love with humor and wit.



witchpucker is an experimental gtr/vox duo constantly redefining themselves through the art of improvisation while building relevatory works that grind their way into the ether. Evoking dark and haunting aural peals, witchpucker create ambient and experimental soundscapes spattered with twitchy noise ditties and simmering drones woven of electric guitar and voice. Dan is a long-time veteran of the Detroit music scene and uses this experience to enrich the harmonic content of their performances. Sara has performed with the James Cornish Orchestra and utilizes extended vocal techniques to explore and augment perceived sonic tapestries.

witchpucker has performed in various venues around the Detroit area including the Hamtramck Music Festival, Ziggy's, Blind Pig, Trinosophes, Spread Art, and the Spectral Slumber festival.



Friday, November 11, 2022
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10








Ben Miller and Skeeter Shelton. Friday, July 22, 2022



Ben Miller has been a part of the Michigan music world since the 1970s including performing in the groups Sproton Layer (with brothers Roger and Laurence), Destroy All Monsters (with Ron Asheton of the Stooges and Michael Davis of the MC5), and more recently with his band Porcelain Hammer. On this night, Ben will perform on multiphonic guitar in support of his new record on Two Rooms Records.



Skeeter Shelton is also from a musically accomplished family being the son of AACM founding member Ajaramu. Skeeter has a long and storied history of performance starting as a protege of Dorothy Ashby, to touring with Joe Tex, to working with artists such as Faruq Z. Bey, Vizitors, and the Redford Civic Symphony Orchestra. On this night, Skeeter will perform a solo set also in support of a recent release on Two Rooms Records.



Friday, July 22, 2022
Music starts at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is $10








The A-Trio with Khoury/Hall. Wednesday, May 18, 2022



The A-Trio is Beirut's most well known group of improvisers. Comprised of Shrf Shn on guitar, Mzn Krbj on trumpet, and Rd Yssn on bass, the group has helped to define the Arab Avante Garde. Shn has performed all over the world as a soloist and ensemble player including his work with choreographer Ali Chahrour as well as with Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Mzn Krbj garnered international attention by recording duets with Israeli Aggression Forces bombing Beirut by air. He has since recorded and performed with European and American luminaries. Rd Yssn has established himself firmly as a contender among ensemble players and soloists. His installations and visual art have been exhibited world wide. Please be sure you bring extra cash for some one-of-a-kind Lebanese merchandise.



Mike Khoury and Ben Hall bring their unique approach to amplified viola and percussion.



Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Music starts promptly at 8 p.m.
Doors at 7 p.m.
Admission is $15