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Floating along, in, below or South of a small local body of flowing refuse, the Brooklyn-based musical collective Straw Pipes has attracted and ejected a broad array of instrumentalists since 2016. Originally formed by Stonie Clark and lele dai, the group is unkempt in the face of the kempt, far from prolific, ultra-inefficient, producing a sort of “un-ready made” art through the efforts of its various rotating members. Existing in an in-between state of preparing, performing, and unraveling or falling apart. Their most recent projects involve the creation of different water-based devices or inventions - designed for collective or participatory interactions.
Arm 3: Straw Pipes
Straw Pipes (Stonie Clark and lele dai)
Title
The water has legs
Description
Delicate sounds emanate from a complex entanglement. River water, rain, melted snow, tap water. Glass, tin cans, elastics, bells. Two human collaborators. Gravity and tension.
Notes
For this project, Straw Pipes has given up the role of conductor - ceding control to their non-human collaborators. They invite accident. They gather, arrange, pour, and play, but allow the materials to express and emit their own music/meaning. Their orchestra is fluid. It no doubt follows a set of scientific laws as it flows and falls and forms puddles and clouds. But the rules of the game are beyond the reach of its inquisitive inventors. The water has legs.