INTERNATIONAL METAL SUPPLY

Echo Park based International Metal Supply consists of Paul B. Cutler, who was involved in the early punk and post-punk scenes in Los Angeles, and Jean-Pierre Bedoyan, a former soloist with the Percussions de Strasbourg avant-garde ensemble in France, also composer for the critically acclaimed Diavolo dance company in Los Angeles. Together they reclaim the current supply of metal offered by our post-industrial age – discards found in the junkyards of Los Angeles – and, through collage, welding and random imagination, create original instruments. Against the grain of mass-produced entertainment, they control every aspect of their production – from improvisational composition to design and manufacturing. Their collaboration is playful, entertaining, and generously ironical.