Floating along, in, below or South of a small local body of flowing refuse, the Brooklyn-based music/performance 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.