BTP is thrilled to join Strange Beautiful Music in Detroit, presenting their boundary-breaking program Musician Minus Instrument.
Details and ticket information coming soon.
About Musician Minus Instrument
What does a musician become without their instrument? Can they use their skills in other ways, and still make music? What are the boundaries of what we can all agree is an “instrument”? What does musical virtuosity become if we don’t have 88 keys, 4 strings and a bow, or a polished brass tube through which to experience it?
Beyond This Point explores these questions in a concert that both breaks and expands what it means to be a musician and a performer. The musicians’ “instruments” run the gamut from a loose jack cable to an IKEA desk lamp to their own bodies and voices. Each work is suffused with musical virtuosity, but that virtuosity is brought to bear on an object or context that seems to resist being labeled as “musical”. Yet, after passing through the eye of the needle, the performers and audience alike emerge on the other side having glimpsed at a possible future where musical expression is no longer constrained to the world of instruments.
Program
Situation No. 7 — Imagination by François Sarhan
Analogy Fair by François Sarhan
Breath, Contained by Tonia Ko
Longevity of lightbulbs (and how to make them last longer) by Stefano D’Alessio
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum
Situation No. 15 — Freiheit und Macht by François Sarhan
4c0st1ctr1g3r by Kaj Duncan David
b by Simon Loffler
Please note: this program contains flashing lights and strobe-like lighting effects.
About Strange Beautiful Music
Strange Beautiful Music (SBM) is New Music Detroit’s annual multi-day new music marathon concert. Held in Detroit every September since 2007, SBM runs the gamut of new music – from contemporary classical and world music to experimental “out” jazz, free improvisation, techno, electronica, neo-soul, ambient and music that defies genre! More information here.