Press Kit
Zac Bru / Detroit Bureau of Sound
Cactus virtuoso, composer, and sonic evangelist, Zac Bru aka Detroit Bureau of Sound is known as one of Detroit’s “most influential artists honing in on the craft of live performance” (CJAM 99.1FM). Compulsively futuristic, Zac’s influences span the past several centuries of musical otherness, from Western classical traditions to the now-global realm of electronica. DBS productions have appeared in iconic spaces like the Detroit Institute of Arts, Red Bull Arts Detroit, MoCAD, the Michigan Science Center, and many more - one such concert was described as “sounding as raw as mating bull elephants” (Lansing City Pulse on “X is for Xenakis”, 2013).
DBS is perhaps best known for playing an amplified cactus- a contact microphone on a plant, fed into a synthesizer; a form of music which the composer John Cage first played in Detroit in the 1970's, and was reintroduced to the birthplace of techno at the 'John Cage Rave', Zac’s 2017 event at Red Bull Arts Detroit, where Juan Atkins, himself, was present.
Booking: Zac@DetroitBureauofSound.com
LIVE PERFORMANCEs
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Notable Performances
“Player Piano Studies” by Nancarrow at Strange Beautiful Music, September 2019
“Deep Surface” installation @ Michigan Science Center, Summer 2019
Rejecting Reality @ Red Bull Arts Detroit, July 2018
DBS 2 Year Anniversary ft. Audion @ Detroit Institute of Arts, March 2018
John Cage Rave @ Red Bull Arts Detroit, June 2017
DBS Techno Ensemble @ Strange Beautiful Music, September 2017
DBS Inaugural Performance ft. Zac Bru + Shigeto @ Detroit Institute of Arts, March 2016