Friday, August 7
Remembering Rodriguez
Remembering Rodriguez
Doors 7:30 pm, music at 8 pm
Advanced ticket sales are now closed.
$10 cash at entry. $1 fee for card sales.
In our third annual musical tribute to Rodriguez, we are presenting an evening of Rodriguez songs, performed by Detroit musicians who knew him, played with him, and admired him.
This year's tribute gig will include performances by Matthew Smith, Stef Chura, Eric Allen (Loose Koozies), Alex Glendening/Maria Nuccilli (Deadbeat Beat), Dave Shettler, Dan Kroha, Audra Kubat, Greg Beyer, Regan Rodriguez, Sandra Rodriguez Kennedy, and many more friends and family of Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was a legendary singer and songwriter who started out in the 1960s, and stayed involved and interested in Detroit's music scene for decades, crossing paths with many different generations of musicians and songwriters.
Photo by John Froelich, Detroit Free Press
Advanced ticket sales are now closed.
$10 cash at entry. $1 fee for card sales.
In our third annual musical tribute to Rodriguez, we are presenting an evening of Rodriguez songs, performed by Detroit musicians who knew him, played with him, and admired him.
This year's tribute gig will include performances by Matthew Smith, Stef Chura, Eric Allen (Loose Koozies), Alex Glendening/Maria Nuccilli (Deadbeat Beat), Dave Shettler, Dan Kroha, Audra Kubat, Greg Beyer, Regan Rodriguez, Sandra Rodriguez Kennedy, and many more friends and family of Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was a legendary singer and songwriter who started out in the 1960s, and stayed involved and interested in Detroit's music scene for decades, crossing paths with many different generations of musicians and songwriters.
Photo by John Froelich, Detroit Free Press
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Friday, September 25
Windy and Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory
Opening set by Swartz Et
Kranky Record Release Party
Doors 7 pm
Optigan Conservatory is a duo comprised of Frank Rotondo (Detroit-area free music ensemble Laughing Gas) and Fred Thomas (songwriter and producer, Saturday Looks Good To Me), who have been making minimalistic electro-acoustic sounds since 2016.
In the last days of 2024, Windy and Carl and Optigan Conservatory got together, falling into a mode of sound creation. Windy and Carl’s hovering augmented chord voicings and vapourous guitar drones were paired with electric piano and synth bedding from Frank Rotondo and Fred Thomas. There are echoes of the earliest releases from Windy and Carl as well as refractions of the same opaque energy that surfaced in the early Kranky catalogue. The slightest hints of Optigan Conservatory’s love of glitchy electronics are there within the greater waves of dense sound, and an eerie character grows quickly as the album plays on.
Swartz et is the music project of Detroit-based artist and musician Steve Swartz. His music has been described as atmospheric and immense, largely due to his earliest sound influences as a child growing up among the fields of Iowa and the mighty Great Lakes. The late ’90s found him playing in the Detroit music scene as guitar player for the shoegaze band Au Revoir Borealis. As the band’s activity faded, Steve has continued to explore worlds of sound through guitar, synthesizers and field audio.
Wednesday, September 30
Horse Lords
Doors 7:30 pm
[$20 at entry]
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010. They evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate.
Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a one-time student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment.
With the relocation of three of the four members to Germany beginning in 2021, the potential for more further creative exploration, and performance opportunities including the Moers Festival (with an 11-piece lineup, interpreting Julius Eastman’s music as well as their own), the interdisciplinary phases of the band’s music was poised for fascinating new directions. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limitations of the quartet and pushing beyond them.
For their second studio album on RVNG Intl., Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, Horse Lords have followed this notion and augmented the instrumentation, expanding the format slightly to include bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (TAK Ensemble), trombonist Weston Olencki (Nate Wooley, RAGE Thormbones) and vocalists Nina Guo (Departure Duo) and Evelyn Saylor (Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri) across a program of twelve original compositions.
Trinosophes Projects is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the state of Michigan that supports, documents, facilitates, presesrves and furthers the arts and culture of Detroit. We are an independent, artist-operated entity located in the city’s Eastern Market district. Contributed and earned income goes directly into the hands of the artists we work with, so if you appreciate our efforts, consider making a donation to support our ongoing mission. Click here for a Paypal link.
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010. They evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate.
Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a one-time student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment.
With the relocation of three of the four members to Germany beginning in 2021, the potential for more further creative exploration, and performance opportunities including the Moers Festival (with an 11-piece lineup, interpreting Julius Eastman’s music as well as their own), the interdisciplinary phases of the band’s music was poised for fascinating new directions. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limitations of the quartet and pushing beyond them.
For their second studio album on RVNG Intl., Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, Horse Lords have followed this notion and augmented the instrumentation, expanding the format slightly to include bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (TAK Ensemble), trombonist Weston Olencki (Nate Wooley, RAGE Thormbones) and vocalists Nina Guo (Departure Duo) and Evelyn Saylor (Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri) across a program of twelve original compositions.
Trinosophes Projects is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the state of Michigan that supports, documents, facilitates, presesrves and furthers the arts and culture of Detroit. We are an independent, artist-operated entity located in the city’s Eastern Market district. Contributed and earned income goes directly into the hands of the artists we work with, so if you appreciate our efforts, consider making a donation to support our ongoing mission. Click here for a Paypal link.
How does your support help? Your donations go directly to our programming, exhibitions, publishing, media manufacturing, archival work, artist commissioning, project collaborations, educational work and regranting in the form of artist prizes, awards and emergency assistance. We believe that now more than ever, this work is important to the cultral health of our community, both through supporting, highlighting and perserving our region’s cultural legacy and by keeping it in dialogue with devlopments in the rest of the country and the world.