Subsurface: Site-Specific Sight & Sound

Subsurface revisits the vast underground expanses of the former Kaylor 3 limestone mine with an evening of site specific music, art, and performance.
Vistors are invited into the chambers of an industrial cathedral carved from solid rock to explore a dramatic underworld, twice the size of the largest skyscraper.
Experimental Concert
The festival is a collaboration among students and faculty from CMU's College of Fine Arts, School of Computer Science, the BXA Intercollege Degree Program, and Integrartive Design, Arts and Technolgy (IDeATe) Network.
The second phase of the festival was featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Trib-Live, as well as many local and university publications.

Students from Scott Andrew’s Activated Anmorphs added an interactive element to this year’s festival. Their movement-based performance and costumes reflected aspects of underground lifeforms or objects, such as angler fish, fossils and bats.


The Activated Anamorphs moved in character to the music performed by IDeATe’s Exploded Ensemble and the musical group Bombici. The musicians, in turn, improvised in response to the movements. Students from Concept Studio: Space and Time also contributed inflatable, projected, shadow-based and mobile artworks.