Avant-garde composer/performer Duane Pitre plays MOCAD

Duane Pitre is an American avant-garde composer, performer, and sound artist. His work often focuses on the interaction between electronic sound and acoustic instrumentation, chaos and discipline, as well as site-speci?city. The composer frequently utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed intervallic relationships. He has created works for various instrumentation con?gurations such as string orchestra, his own bowed harmonic-guitar ensemble, string/wind ensembles, and solo works (for himself).

Following Pitre’s solo performance will be a screening of video artist Bradford Willingham’s Bridges, a video accompaniment to Pitre’s album of the same name. Also, Pitre will have his Feel Free sound installation running in the MOCAD Café all day.

Performance is Thursday, June 13, 8 p.m. Admission is $7 and free for MOCAD members. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is at 4454 Woodward Ave. in Midtown.