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At the crossroads of music, sculpture, and performance comes Kris Perry’s Machines, a project which finds the artist creating elaborate sound devices out of old factory equipment. Perry describes his work as “booming percussives, low frequency vibrations, and howling pipes — all operated to create sounds by musicians poised at control panels.” And the musicians in this case are an impressive array, ranging from folkie Elvis Perkins to Tommy Stinson (founding member of The Replacements!) and former Smashing Pumpkins’ bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The piece is set to debut at The Hudson Music Festival this August; it debuts as our Project of the Day today!

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Shannon Gillen may already have created three Kickstarter projects, but she still manages to pull out all the stops with her latest: BOTLEK, a nuanced analysis of the international shipping industry through interpretative dance. She’s combining pre-recorded found sound and original texts with her highly original, modern moves to tell a complex maritime tale. So we made her our Project of the Day, which is our version of giving a standing ovation.

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With over a decade of programming under their belt, the folks behind Non-Event are celebrating their 11th season by going bigger than ever before, bringing dozens of experimental and avant artists to the Boston area for amazing shows. Their line-up boasts names like C. Spencer Yeh, Greg Kelley, Belarisk, and C.M. von Hausswolff — and they’re not even done with the schedule! We can’t wait to see what will happen next for these guys, our Project of the Day.

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Based on a poetry chapbook by Andy Young, The People Is Singular will be a multimedia event using spoken word, video art, and soundscapes to explore the recent Egyptian Revolution — a presentation as dynamic as the social moment it documents. A one-night only event that will take place at Cafe Istanbul in New Orleans, we think that seeing it happen might be worth the trip. Definitely worth making it our Project of the Day.

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Bellingham, Washington’s Little Bird Theater presents February September, a play about a single woman who decides to get pregnant, and the way her family reacts. It’s about brothers and sisters (aw) and chipwiches (yum), and it’ll be popping up in vacant spaces across town (neat). Today, it also pops up as our Project of the Day. Hooray!

KSR IRL: Friday 9/23 the Fisher Ensemble premieres Kocho @ Galapagos Art Space in NYC.

As touted in the New Yorker and listed as a Time Out NY Critics’ Pick, Garrett Fisher’s Kocho is what the — okay, one more name drop — New York Times calls a “groundbreaking hybrid.” This former Kickstarter project follows a priest who frees a butterfly by letting it “dance under a plum blossom,” but we have a feeling the experience of Kocho isn’t really about narrative here… Basically: go celebrate site, sound, beauty and general freakiness at Galapagos. Sounds 2 dreamy 2 miss.

With music by Garrett Fisher, choreography by Christy Fisher, direction by Benjamin Mosse, art installation by Louise McCagg, words by Amy Schrader, video by Ryan K Adams, and costumes by Zane Philstrom. Produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

(Photograph by Paul Joseph Brown)