Experimental electronic music label Data Garden will be celebrating its one-year anniversary by closing out this year’s DesignPhiladelphia Festival and returning to West Philly’s Bartram’s Garden today for its The Switched-On Garden 002. The event will bring together nature, electronic music and technology in the beautiful setting of North America’s oldest surviving botanic garden with live music, performances and sculptures. You’ll be treated to sets by King Britt and Spaceship Aloha, a.k.a. Christopher Sean Powell (Man Man, Adventuredrum, Need New Body), who both have new albums, The Bee and The Stamen & Universe Mahalo: Volume #1, being released via Data Garden. Dino Lionetti (Cheap Dinosaurs), Gretchen Lohse, Laura Baird and Allen Crawford will be collaborating to provide the backdrop for an essay inspired by Bartram’s Garden. As you might have experienced at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, musical compositions will be generated by the electronic impulses produced by tropical plants in regards to human interaction with the Data Garden: Duet. Klip Collective will be sharing a soundtrack and images projected “onto an “undulating mist of smoke.” Basically, there will be plenty of more artists and installations throughout the garden blurring the lines between the biological and digital worlds. It’s going to be beautiful outside so grab a blanket and go out to The Switched-On Garden 002 for one unique experience. Bartram’s Garden, 54th St. & Lindbergh Blvd., 2pm – 8:30pm, Free, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman
