“We Chase The Sound” by ADULT.

Northern Transmissions' 'Song of the Day' is "We Chase The Sound" by ADULT. featuring Shannon Funchess
Photo by N Kuperus

ADULT. (Detroit’s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) have released a new track from their collaborative album, Detroit House Guests – set for release on March 17 through Mute on double vinyl, download and CD. Listen to “We Chase The Sound” featuring Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum above.

ADULT. have announced North American tour dates through May and June including an album release show in Miami on March 17. Further dates across the US, UK and Europe will be announced in the coming weeks.

The band recently unveiled the video for “They’re Just Words” featuring Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas J McCarthy, directed by Hazel Hill McCarthy III and edited by N Kuperus with a cameo from dancer Biba Bell.

Detroit House Guests is a collaborative project conceived by ADULT. based on the visual artist residency model – each musician came to ADULT.’s studio for a three week period with the parameter that they all live, work and collaborate together. The result – a total anthropological sound experiment and a full length album.

The album features collaborations with a whole host of musicians and artists – Douglas J McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb, Michael Gira from Swans, Shannon Funchess from Light Asylum, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens, Austrian thereminist Dorit Chrysler and multidisciplinary artist Lun*na Menoh.

ADULT. are the Detroit duo Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller. They played their first live show together in Germany in 1997 under the name Artificial Material. In early ’98 they released their first 12″ under the moniker Plasma Co. Later that year, they released their first 12″ under the name ADULT. Currently, they have released six albums and 19 EPs or singles on Ghostly International, Thrill Jockey and Clone Records, as well as on their own label Ersatz Audio, (which currently has over 40 releases since it was founded in ’95). They have remixed over 20 acts as well, including Tuxedomoon, John Foxx, Death in Vegas and Pet Shop Boys (for Moog Music).

Kuperus and Miller also make sculpture, paintings, films, photographs, performances, videos and installations. They strive to intersect the lines between art and audio and have exhibited their work at institutions such as the Austrian Cultural Forum (NY), Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit), MOMAS (Saitama, Japan), and Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac (FR). They have shown their film The Three Grace(s) triptych at spaces such as Anthology Film Archives (NY), Distrital Film Festival (Mexico City), and Grey Area for Art and Technology (SF).

US TOUR DATES:
3/17/17 – Miami, FL – Gramp’s – on sale now
5/4/17 – Austin, TX – The Sidewinder
5/5/17 – Dallas, TX – Three Links
5/10/17 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
5/11/17 – Washington, DC – DC9
5/13/17 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bazaar
5/17/17 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
5/19/17 – Montreal, QC – NewSpeak
5;20/17 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
6/1/17 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
6/7/17 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
6/8/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
6/9/17 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
6/10/17 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Atrium
6/15/17 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
6/17/17 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile

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