NEW MUSIC DETROIT: TO SEE YOU I CLOSE MY EYES

at Wasserman Projects (Detroit) / Friday, November 21, 2025

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New Music Detroit presents To See You I Close My Eyes, a concert performance curated by Justin Snyder in response to the Wasserman Projects Fall 2025 exhibitions featuring work by Hans Op de Beeck and Christine Elfman. 

Elfman’s light-sensitive photographs that fade over time and Op de Beeck’s monochrome dreamscapes both suggest a paradox of impermanence — that a certain clarity arises through the gradual vanishing of material presence, and that only through this delicate evaporation do we perceive what might otherwise remain unseen.

Through the music of Karmit Fadael, Beat Furrer, Kate Soper, Tyshawn Sorey, Klaus Lang, and Ellen Ruth Harrison, the program extends this meditation into sound, tracing the slow dissolution of form and the subtle transformation of memory into resonance. 

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Concert program curated by Justin Snyder

Exhibition curator: Alison Wong

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PROGRAM

Vereende

- Karmit Fadael

All One Can Imagine

- Ellen Ruth Harrison

Trio for Harold Budd

- Tyshawn Sorey

Tehran Dust

- Klaus Lang

Only the words themselves mean what they say

- Kate Soper

Voicelessness: the snow has no voice

- Beat Furrer

 AUDIO-VISUAL DOCUMENTATION (COMING SOON)

photos by PD Rearick; courtesy of Wasserman Projects