Launching this summer as part of MOCAD’s 20th anniversary celebrations, The Sounding Room is a rotating residency and experimental platform for artists working across sound, music, and performance. Hosted in the garage of the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and grounded in Detroit’s histories of cultural innovation and resistance, the program invites artists to use the Homestead as a site for experimentation, collaboration, and new forms of public engagement.
Throughout each residency, artists are supported in developing and sharing new work through open rehearsals, performances, listening sessions, and workshops. Each cycle culminates in a free public performance. In partnership with Third Man Records, each live performance will contribute to a limited-edition vinyl compilation documenting the project over time.
Open rehearsals are tentatively scheduled for selected Thursdays and Saturdays throughout each residency cycle. Please check our Instagram for more information.
From July 8 – Sunday, August 23, The Sounding Room residency program will be accompanied by the group exhibition Music from Dimensions Tomorrow, which explores visionary sound practices, outsider aesthetics, and experimental music cultures in Michigan from the 1990s to the present.
RESIDENTS
- July – Shigeto
- August – Zekkereya El-magharbel
- September – Battle Elf
- October – Na Bonsai
- November – Dave Hurley
Information regarding performance dates is below.
Exhibition Credits
The Sounding Room is made possible through the support of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. The Sounding Room was collaboratively curated by MOCAD’s curatorial team and El Studio 444.
