Playing the Building, A Sound Installation by David Byrne
The latest episode of Boing Boing TV features Xeni Jardin visting David Byrne in NYC where he gives her a tour of a the Battery Maritime Building that he has turned into a giant musical instrument, part of his Playing the Building series of sound installations.
Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
The installation is located at 10 South Street in Manhattan and runs through August 8th, open Friday-Sunday, noon - 6pm (admission is free).
photo via David Byrne
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Creative Time, the sponsor of this installation, is an awesome public arts organization. http://creativetime.org
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