If you want to get started learning about synthesizers, this is the event for you. North Coast Modular Collective will explain how to get started producing with hardware synthesizers, in a digital audio workstation, or with modular synthesizers. You can also connect with the local community of electronic musicians and instrument makers.

Put on some headphones and start dancing at the silent disco! Wireless headphones are provided and local musician Ki5 provides the music.

Curtis Glatter will discuss his latest release with Troikastra. Troikastra is a cross country music trio of Michigan based drummer/electronic musician Curtis Glatter, turntable legend Tenshun and drummer/producer Nathan Hubbard. The trio creates kaliedoscopic music from samples, 16rpm turntables and modular synths. For fans of musique concrete, plunderphonics and skipping exotica records.

Jienan Yuan performs music from his new album 'Your Wave Persists', that serves not only as an act of remembrance for loved ones lost, but also as an exploration on the nature of memory itself. This event features Kyunghee Kim and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe as readers, with an opening set by Joo Won Park.

Join a cohort of undergraduate students from University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance as they share short electronic compositions based on images from the AADL Archives. Each student's short, original musical 'score' accompanies a photo they found inspiring or meaningful. View the selected images and listen to each of these original pieces of music created in the winter of 2024.

This event is in conjunction with the Scoring the Archive Exhibit on display on the Downtown Lobby Gallery Screen from April 16–May 28.

The Blue Water Ramblers write and sing traditional music with modern themes. Their repertoire comes right out of life experiences while living in Michigan and touring throughout the Great Lakes region. They write and sing the people’s songs about the people’s lives and they can join right in and sing along. The unique Blue Water Ramblers sound comes across in styles folky to bluegrass, Americana to roots. There is something for everyone to appreciate in a Rambler show!

Join us to learn about traditional folk music from the Hengchun Peninsula of southern Taiwan. Starry Wang, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan School of Music Dance and Theater, will gives this talk in advance of "Sound of Music from Taiwan's Hengchun Peninsula" on April 27th.

The lecture is followed by a DIY workshop: sanding and assembling a decorative miniature model of Yueqin, the instrument featured in the musical on April 27.

This event is in partnership with the Michigan Taiwanese American Organization.

Black Diamond is comprised of saxophonists Artie Black and Hunter Diamond, bassist Matt Ulery, and drummer Neil Hemphill. The band has released three acclaimed albums of composed and improvised music. In Chicago, the band has been featured in residency at Andy's Jazz Club, The Drake Hotel, and The Whistler. Other performances include the 2018 Chicago Jazz Festival, and associations with the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Sounds of the City Workshop, the Anagram Series at Elastic Arts, and the Chicago Jazz Composers Collective. Join us for an evening of jazz with Black Diamond!

Come celebrate the RHYME AND RHYTHM of African American culture through music, song, storytelling, prose poetry and more. Fun-filled and exciting, this program is designed to educate, enlighten, empower, and entertain audiences of all ages.

in·cu·ba·tor is a space for technology-based artists and creatives to interact with guest clinicians, workshop performance ideas, receive feedback from peers, and discuss the advancement of mixed-media. This meet-up is a low-pressure and collaborative environment that will give those working in technology-based art and those interested in incorporating technology into their art, a supportive and experienced community by which to bounce ideas and hone techniques.

This event is brought to you and hosted by Media Ensemble.