David Byrne: Playing The Building

[vitamincity]

David Byrne, you're the best.

[neuroanarchist]

Fuck scheiß KIK. Hier kommt sogar webung mit dem stressigen T-Shirt, das Klamotten für hunderlöhne in bangladesch fertigt....

[TheNellamaria]

as usual very interesting!

[chrismarinskates]

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[nathanoman1]

coolest thing ive ever seen..i love it..u are the man david byrne...

[FlyingOBryan]

When you run out of things to do - this could be your next project -

[sirdynehhmite]

It would be really sweet to run through some music you already know.

[RaygunShaun]

radicalgarbage02 must be a Tom Tom Club fan.

[BacherBabe]

I would have enjoyed hearing David Byrne play his invention! I'd love to hear his mind work in that manner.

[Btrstarwolf]

swag. swag on a hundred thousand trillion

[victrolux]

love this and love Trimpin too

[Shramir]

this was a very cool idea but it didnt sound as cool as i thought it would

[1g0g]

сильно!

[billysnoid]

Dude, you are amazing! I work in a stamping plant and I have always wanted to do this with machinery and pipes in the building. It is cool to see such creativity come to light.

[radicalgarbage02]

We're gonna think David Byrne is GREAT and SUPER no matter what anyone says! YAY!!! EVERYBODY'S A WINNER!

[angelmarine1292]

What a cool guy.

[radicalgarbage02]

In other words, he's misleading people and generating musical value where there isn't any. That is the DEFINITION of being pretentious.

[eruption257]

@radicalgarbage02 We get it, you hate David Byrne. Shut up and move on, you don't need to discuss the artistic merit of a guy who used to dance around in a big suit.

[yandiggles]

@radicalgarbage02 not our fault that your feeble fucking brain is to shallow to explore new forms of art,

now shutup and fuck off

[radicalgarbage02]

@yandiggles Feel better you pretentious little shit?

[radicalgarbage02]

This is the most pretentious thing I've ever seen David Byrne do.

[Jigs1girl]

Someone is a little jealous of his Brilliance, eh?

[radicalgarbage02]

I can't dislike an idea just because everyone else likes it or what?

I genuinely think that the sounds generated are just incoherent trash. It's not the unconventional "brilliance", as you put it, that bothers me. It's the thought that David probably did this to make music more accessible to that particular community by making all the random sounds generated by anyone playing that building musically valid by putting his stamp of approval on it.

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

Hahaha... I'm genuinely surprised to find someone who, judging from you interest in David Byrne, likes Talking Heads being so conventional in musical taste. Then again, I like noise music. How pretentious of me, I know! :D To each their own.

[radicalgarbage02]

Grammar. You need it.

[Jigs1girl]

Personality: You need it!

[radicalgarbage02]

I'm sorry, but what does attaching random electro-mechanical devices around a worthless building have to do with personality?

David Byrne is a has-been that only achieved modern success due to his prior fame with The Talking Heads.

If he has anything, it's probably Asperger's Syndrome and a mild case of attention-whore's disease.

[Mainsail76]

@radicalgarbage02, "attention-whore's disease?" You've posted SIX comments on this fairly short video stating how you don't like David Byrne's "playing the building" project. Seems to me that only an "attention-whore" would bother to post SIX negative comments on a video that seems to be enjoyed by so many people based on the rating it's gotten. Why would you post a negative comment? To get attention. One comment maybe, but SIX? Maybe it takes an attention-whore to know one?

[radicalgarbage02]

BTW, in case you still don't get it, it's not jealousy. It's not my fault that I see flaws in his artistry. I'll admit he is brilliant at times, but no one is perfect.

Why do you feel the need to take just the positive qualities from a celebrity and put them up on a pedestal and in a glass case? Of course, then you're going to tell me I'm jealous. I look at people as real. They are touchable and human. Sorry, but I don't like walking down your false museum of speechless heads.

[Jigs1girl]

You see flaws... Can you turn it inside?

[KatiaImeldaMarcos]

I also like noise music.. actually I think there is too much music around that sometimes it bothers me and I wish I could hear the noises around

[peachtable966]

woah!! since when does Youtube put up 10 second comercials before your video starts?

aanyway, cool concept! wonder how he came up with it.

[ModulationCracks]

i want to play that building, too...

[WithoutASystem]

truely an amazing man

[snateraar]

Awesome.

[Gammarklar]

more buildings about songs i guess.. :) next he should make instruments out of food.

[Mikemaniax]

Carrot Flute, Pizza Drumkit...

The possibilities are endless!!!!

[TimJMorrison]

Its been done!

[tobotron]

@Gammarklar there is something like that: the vienna vegetable orchestra:

watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY

[sarettabruxada]

@Gammarklar They ahve done it:search "Vegetable orchestra"

[FlyingOBryan]

@Gammarklar  Yes - then you could eat it when your hungry -

[Araclain]

@Gammarklar Hes working on it right now, i swear...

[cartoonasaurus]

Way to go David Byrne - little minds will always carp, but artists that push boundaries can still make magic out of anything!

[llZENBOYll]

What does "Rediculous" mean? Is that something "Diculous", but done a second time?

I think you're ridiculously diculous...

[spoonlines]

very creative.

[alex19810920]

i think it is very interesting and creative.and it sounds great too.

[Babejuda]

Well, the urbanic buildings have their own music and stories to tell us. Interesting.

[k9feces]

It would be cool if he played a fucking song

[bluntsafety]

k9feces, there are so many "songs" out there.

Why not something else?

[imnickim]

i wanna see something played that was cool ha

[melloki76]

Very creative!

[PukuTheBear]

Some New Yorkers have far too much time and creativity on their hands.

How much does it cost?

[tweetermkyman]

Puku, for your information the exhibit is free for the public and Byrne didn't get paid, he just got the city to fund it's creation. Too bad you have no imagination or creativity in your mind because if you did you would understand how cool the idea is. It's like when you are a kid and make rhythms out of anything, he's doing it as an adult and for fun, better life than yours i bet. I went and it was really amazing playing it.

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

Exactly! I see it as a toy, as something magical to wake up our minds to the potential in mundane things.

[djmattekudasai]

@tweetermkyman yeah, its not always about the money and some people still cant unterstand it. david byrne is a crazy creative genius, i read he is a biking enthusiast, he supports cycling and created bike racks for New York City. See, another non-commercial project. greets from Germany ;)

[jefboyardee]

From Psycho Killer to Building Tapper in just thirty-one years.

[prerecordedeulogy]

Somebody could go in there with a tape recorder, make a few sounds and have some good ambient music.

[GreenHills77]

Wow, i wanna turn!:p

If i went there i dont know if I could stand that line..

[GegiretsuFlavour]

Interesting :).

[personguy27]

i wanna play a building!