lowgardens, is an experimental performance platform focused on durational sonic research. Presented as a DIY listening room, lowgardens events host live sets and collaborations from Pittsburgh sound artists engaging in long form sonic curiosities. Audiences are invited to come and go at their leisure.
May 11
4-8pm at inter-, 5013 Penn Ave
Free (donations accepted and go towards paying artists)
the upcoming lowgardens features a collaborative installation between Lefafa and residents slowdanger. expect activations through projection mapping, spatial audio play and movement.
lefafa / Arush Kalra is an interdisciplinary artistwhose first artworks were site-specific installations inside the human heart. Trained in pediatric surgery and cardiac fluid dynamics, Arush helped co-invent a noval material for replacement heart valves and blood vessels. In 2012 he founded the valve design house, PECA Labs. These inventions are actively being implanted globally for complex surgeries. Arush’s design sensibilities, combined with a lifelong interest in music and film, have resulted in a series of audio-visual installations. In 2013, Arush worked in collaboration with visual artists and filmmakers, creating multi-instrumental live loops for their projects that eventually led to his first independent project, Rice Bowl Launch. Rice Bowl Launch amalgamates elements of atmospheric videos, stop motion shorts, photo-collage, and projection-mapping with live performance. In January of 2019 Arush co-founded the dedicated DIY performance venue Collision (Homewood). The space is now regarded as a potent launchpad for noise and experimental music.
Arush’s most recent project, Sick at Work pairs vocal narrative and experimental sound (derived from abnormal human heartbeats) with glitch visuals layered over color fields. The output is intended to be an organic/nostalgic French House inspired dance atmosphere — a tribute to the history of electronic music and its visual evolution. Arush aims to weave his scientific and artistic endeavors into a fabric that questions the neurological hierarchy of sound and vision.