Open Improvisation Lab: Teeth & Metals

People’s Music Supply in collaboration with the Living Signal is presenting a weekly series of curated performances followed by an Open Improvisation Lab (OIL). Opening performances will feature some of the region’s best talent across a wide variety of styles generated in situ. The OIL portion will see participating audience members formed into groups via chance procedures, divine inspiration, and bespoke sorting systems for the purposes of extracting music from the unique temporal aspects of the ether. 

All Levels | All Backgrounds | All Disciplines generated in the moment.

Curated Openers

Teeth & Metals Mark Micchelli- piano

Alex Lough – electronics. “feral and refined, precise and unruly”

7pm doors

7:30 Performance

8:15 Lab begin

Admission- All donations go towards the opening performances, respecting our host space, and making sure the series is sustainable. 

$0 to $10 for lab participants

$10 to 20 for audience 

Sober Space

Participants are encouraged to share amps- share rides, and coordinate with us for unique backline needs.  We encourage everyone to read through Pittsburgh Sound Preserve Guidelines guidelines for their OIL, we will adopt our own guidelines in due time.

BIOS Driven by a shared passion for adventurous music for piano and electronics, Alex Lough and Mark Micchelli founded Teeth and Metals in early 2017. The duo presents fully notated music, completely improvised music, and everything in between. Teeth and Metals has performed across the United States and internationally, at festivals and venues including ICMC, SPLICE, Art Basel Miami, Stanford University, UC Irvine, and Mark’s pandemic apartment in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh.