New Music Detroit keeps it edgy

New Music Detroit gets another writeup:

The cooperative New Music Detroit, which made its debut in June, has been turning heads with its ferociously energetic and virtuoso performances of music that’s almost never heard in metro Detroit — everything from so-called downtown idioms like minimalism to the gnarly experiments of the European avant-garde to eclectic, post-everything music so new the ink is still wet.

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Sunday’s Brunch with Bach program at the Detroit Institute of Arts is a good example of what has been missing around here. The program includes “Part 1” from Steve Reich’s landmark of minimalism, “Drumming” (1971); two saxophone pieces by the late high priest of avant-garde modernism, Karlheinz Stockhausen; and a 2003 work for marimba, percussion and soprano saxophone by Nico Muhly, a 26-year-old New Yorker and one of the most-talked-about young composers on the scene.