Kenji Lee is a Japanese-American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. His work seeks to embody the vitality of experimentalism while staying diligently rooted in historical practices. Kenji is an inaugural 2024 CultureSource ArcFund recipient. In 2023, he was a featured performer at the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and in 2024 was a featured performer at Edgefest.

Birjy is the wide-ranging, electro-acoustic project of violist & composer Lea Detlefs. Alternating beautiful and intense, minimalistic and dense layers of distorted sound, with classical, folk, and post-rock influences - listening to her music is like ‘being transported to another world’.

Kenji and Birjy join forces this Halloween to write and perform an original, reimagined score to Robert Wiene’s “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920).