RIDGEFIELD, CT.- Chelpa Ferro is a Brazilian collective comprised of artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler that was formed in 1995. Already independently renowned, they got together under the umbrella “Chelpa Ferro”—Portuguese slang for money and steel—with the objective of doing some leisurely experimentation outside the constraints of their primary individual art careers. Chelpa Ferro’s first US exhibition brings their fresh, somewhat chaotic, and savvy interdisciplinary approach to objects that they transform into animate sculptures and sound-creating devices to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The project, which has received funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts, will remain on view through January 8, 2012. Chelpa Ferro is well known for squeezing a rhythmical sound from seemingly non musical devices such as electric toothbrushes, drills, sewing machines, or jui