playing the building

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if you have time from today until august 28th, i highly recommend checking out this installation.

the blurb on david byrne's website is as follows:

Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne

The Battery Maritime Building
10 South Street, New York, NY

31 May -- 24 August 2008
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon -- 6PM (Free)

Creative Time presents Playing the building, 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.

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Category:

Music

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• battery
• maritime
• building
• david
• byrne
• new
• york
• nyc
• installation
• art
• music
• playing
• free

[510dustmite]

i think i had a nightmare about this once...