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.

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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 development 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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm
Doors at 6 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm, music at 8 pm. 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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7:30 pm
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 pm
Doors at 7 pm
Admission is $15