Kris Perry’s “Industrial Evolution” will close September 29 with an evening of free music (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Family Business
520 West 21st St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Saturday, September 29, free, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00
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For most of the run of Kris Perry’s “Industrial Evolution” installation in Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni’s tiny storefront Family Business space in Chelsea that opens out onto Twenty-first St., visitors have come and pounded on the drums and played various other percussion and stringed instruments, made from found machine parts and other materials. But in a grand finale on September 29, a group of professional musicians and artists will take over the reins from six to eight o’clock in the evening. The miniconcerts, beginning on the hour, will feature drummer Chris Turco, composer and editor Ben Fundis, multidisciplinary audiovisual artist Brian Dewan, Nashville musician and engineer John Rosenthal, folk rocker Elvis Perkins, and Replacements and Guns N’ Roses bassist Tommy Stinson improvising on the metal machines. The Hudson-based Perry, who was born in Berkeley and is the founder of Fantastic Fabrication, specializes in creating kinetic sculptures and unusual instruments, several of which are on view in the fanciful “Industrial Evolution,” which was curated by culture writer Linda Yablonsky and also includes video components.